Deeptech VC & AI That Learns How You Think | Episode 75

Rishaad Currimjee is the GP of Golden Sparrow — a fund backing India’s deeptech and AI founders at pre-seed, from space-tech and semiconductors to enterprise AI. Fund I returned 5.5× on EtherealX; Fund II just closed its first tranche at $20M. We talk about why he left a 140-year Mauritius family business to build a solo-GP fund in India, and where deeptech is actually going.Pratyush Rai and Siddhartha Saxena are the IIT Kanpur co-founders of Merlin AI (1M+ users) and Thine — an ambient iPhone AI that learns from your in-person conversations and surfaces what matters, privately. We talk about why they walked away from a product with a million users to build something completely different, and what personal intelligence actually means.Join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow The Offline NetworkX → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network