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Pocket FM has 250M+ listeners, and a creator economy that pays out ₹300 crore. Today, Co-founder of Pocket FM, Prateek Dixit joins us for a conversation on stream 103 of The Offline Network.

Friday edition: AR glasses you can actually buy, trust layer for a post AGI world and Deep tech in IndiaOn today's episode:Vishnu (EigenLabs) on EigenLab and the trust layer for a post-AGI worldChetan Mehta (AUM Ventures) on his Rs 750 crore Fund II and why deeptech India is the bet of the decadeLive investor × portfolio conversation: Chetan and Chiran on what it actually looks like to back a deep-tech space founderChiran Phanindra (Cosmoserve Space) — ex-ISRO Gaganyaan scientist building robots to clean up orbital debrisSnap just launched $2,195 AR glasses — no phone, no puck, ships this fall. The post-smartphone era just started.

Friday edition: AR glasses you can actually buy, trust layer for a post AGI world and Deep tech in IndiaOn today's episode:Vishnu (EigenLabs) on EigenLab and the trust layer for a post-AGI worldChetan Mehta (AUM Ventures) on his Rs 750 crore Fund II and why deeptech India is the bet of the decadeLive investor × portfolio conversation: Chetan and Chiran on what it actually looks like to back a deep-tech space founderChiran Phanindra (Cosmoserve Space) — ex-ISRO Gaganyaan scientist building robots to clean up orbital debrisSnap just launched $2,195 AR glasses — no phone, no puck, ships this fall. The post-smartphone era just started.

Today on The Offline Network:Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire — SpaceX IPO, Cursor $60B, what the AI wealth concentration meansUS govt pauses Fable 5 and Mythos — what happens when the builders say stopIndia at Nice, France — is India's global innovation pitch finally landing?Telegram banned in India — 100M users, encrypted platforms, and state powerGuests today:1. Vishal Chopra — Co-founder & CEO, WeRizeAI-powered fintech for 300M small-city Indians2. Niharika Goenka — Founder, BoombaySeed-to-sauce, 100% natural condiments3. Shreya Mishra -- Co-founder & CEO, SolarSquareBuilding India’s no. 1 home solar brand

For our 100th episode, we're bringing six founders onto a single stage:- Sreevathsa Prabhakar, Founder & CEO of Servify- Kanika Gupta Shori, Co-Founder & COO of Square Yards- Ronnie Screwvala, Entrepreneur, investor, and Chairperson & Co-Founder of upGrad- Vaibhav Khandelwal, Co-Founder & CTO of Shadowfax- Abhay Singhal & Mohit Saxena, Co-Founders of InMobiThey've built some of the most consequential companies to come out of India, and they're sitting down with us live today.

Two founders joining us today:Vivek Ravisankar (HackerRank) on whether tech hiring is actually fixed, what AI does to the job of being an engineer, and where the human sits when machines write most of the code.Kanav Hasija (MeltPlan) on why construction productivity has been falling for 50 years, what pre-construction planning has to do with everything that goes wrong on a build, and why Bessemer backed him at less than a year old.

One founder built India's largest PM community from a single meetup. The other sold his startup to Pine Labs for Rs 88 Cr and immediately started a new company in New York with the same co-founders.Suhas Motwani (The Product Folks) on building a 30,000-member community entirely on patience, why product managers make great community builders, and what internal product work teaches you that no startup ever will.Ishan Rakshit (Shopflo, Sortment) on raising from Tiger Global at seed, building checkout infrastructure for 1,000 D2C brands, selling to Pine Labs, and why he started over the moment it closed.

Three founders. One who's kept a tech company alive for 40 years and just took it to Europe. One who built a wearable that stimulates your brain to fix focus and mood. And two who turned RC cars into a Rs 30 Cr brand in 16 months.Sahil Shah (TM Systems) about cybersecurity, intelligence and Entrepreneurship.Dhawal Jain (Mave Health) on what tDCS actually does to the brain, and whether India will pay INR 29,500 fVinay Jaisingh & Afshaan Siddiqui (Legend of Toys) on going from ISB to RC cars, hitting Rs 30 Cr ARR in 16 months, and why they give every customer free repairs for life.

On today’s episode of The Offline Network, we have:1/ Vedant Gupte (Trackk) is reimagining how Gen Z invests — AI-powered stock discovery, one of India's youngest registered brokers, backed by Lightspeed and Info Edge.2/ Vinay Agastya (Ctruh) is building the infrastructure layer of the spatial internet — browser-native 3D experiences for any brand, no app downloads needed. Shark Tank India S5 alum, $4.5 Mn raised.3/ Ajay Rao (Emiza) has spent a decade building warehousing and fulfillment for Indian SMBs — 27 warehouses, 14 cities, $24 Mn raised.

This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with three founders building very different parts of the India opportunity — one who built a generational education brand, one who is fixing how Indian families pay for education, and one who bootstrapped three global SaaS products without raising a rupee of VC.1/ Ankit Dudhwewala built CallHippo without a technical background and without raising VC — three SaaS products, $20 Mn+ combined revenue, all bootstrapped.2/ Eela Dubey built EduFund — now helping 250,000+ Indian families plan and finance their children's education.3/ Aakash Chaudhry co-built Aakash Institute into one of India's largest test prep networks — 300+ centres. Now building again with Sparkl: One-on-one live tutoring.

This week’s news: Reliance just posted India’s highest-ever annual profit at ₹95,754 crore - and the Jio IPO is on the horizon. India opened its 5th-gen AMCA fighter programme to private industry for the first time - Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge in the race. The government approved ₹33,660 crore to build 100 industrial parks to go after India’s 1.8% global export share. Lane Brown’s Vulture piece exposed the machine behind tech launch virality - 65,000 bots, 50,000 daily videos, all manufactured. We get into why VCs need to build owned media now that capital is abundant.And the Will Smith eating spaghetti video is back - this time, AI can actually do it.Our guests are Darshil Rathod and Shreyans Sancheti, co-founders of Linkrunner — AI-powered Mobile Measurement Partner. They built the attribution tool they wished existed when they were running BlueLearn, going head-to-head with AppsFlyer and Branch with a product designed ground-up for Indian consumer apps.

A platform making grassroots sport visible. An AI companion speaking India's languages. Plus — SpaceX's S-1, India's electricity milestone, and Karpathy joining Anthropic.1/ Sidhhant AgarwalFounder of SportVot — the platform digitising grassroots sport in India and globally. 3.5 lakh matches digitised, 30 sports, 20,000+ kabaddi athlete profiles. Raised Rs 32.7 Cr. Now in APAC, MENA, and Europe.2/ Rohan ChaudharyFounder & CEO of Rumik AI — building Ira, an emotionally intelligent AI companion for India. 35M+ messages in 4 months; 1M+ installs, 40-min average sessions, $6.5M raised.News:SpaceX files S-1 — $1.75T valuation, Starlink at $11.4B revenue, 10.3M subscribersIndia hits 260.5 GW peak demand; 50% non-fossil power capacity achieved 5 years earlyAndrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pretraining team — OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI lead

Today on the show:Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa Organic) — built India's first certified organic dairy company from a farm on the outskirts of Bengaluru, survived six shutdown scares, and scaled to Rs 395 CrNews we coverTata & ASML sign $11B deal to build India's first commercial chip fab in Dholera

Two founders building what's next — while India's economy hits a turning point.Anushka Sharma (Quenzy) — bootstrapped a prebiotic soda brand that sold out in 2 hours, ex-Google and Amazon Nakul Kelkar (Affogato AI) — built an AI video agent with 1.5M users, backed by YCNews:India's rupee under pressure as gold imports widen the trade deficitZepto gets SEBI nod for $1.2B IPO — quick commerce goes publicRapido raised $240M in fresh primary funding led by Prosus, valuing at $3B post‑moneyGoogle's Android Show: Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks & Android 17

This episode dives into an infrastructure bet — autonomous industrial robotics.Manesh Jain breaks down how Flo Mobility is deploying autonomous robots across construction sites, airports, and industrial environments — and what it takes to make robotics work reliably in chaotic real-world settings.

This episode explores three very different frontiers — longevity, industrial intelligence, and AI infrastructure in orbit.1/ Abhishek Sahu (Founder & CEO, Dreamspan) breaks down adaptive health technology, longevity trends, and what building health hardware in India actually demands2/ Naman Shah (Founder & CEO, NowPurchase) explains digitising India’s metal manufacturing ecosystem through procurement infra, factory operating systems, and AI-driven intelligence3/ Awais Ahmed (Founder & CEO, Pixxel) discusses Pixxel’s orbital AI infrastructure ambitions: India’s first orbital data centre satelliteNews:1/ Anthropic gets access to xAI’s 220,000-GPU Colossus supercluster2/ Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn3/ Pronto hits $200M valuation after raising $20M

India’s AI transition is colliding with a much deeper question: who are we actually building for?1/ Dharmesh Ba breaks down the empathy gap between Indian founders and users, why “Bharat” behaves differently from “India,” and how UPI, WhatsApp, and digital products are reshaping consumer psychology.2/ Bharat Pinnam explains how AI-native software creation is changing who gets to build, what real AI builders look like, and why the future developer may not look anything like today’s engineer.Also covering: • Anthropic’s $1.5B AI consulting venture • Dream11’s pivot into AI-powered investing • Krutrim shifting from frontier AI to cloud infrastructure

Live with us today:1/ Saurabh Pandey, Founder & CEO of Eloelo Group, building India's go-to platform for entertainment with StoryTV App (By Eloelo group) for microdramas, Master for microlearning and Eloelo for live social entertainment, redefining how people entertain, learn and connect with each other online.2/ Kiran Gopinath, Founder & Head of Sahamati Labs, the innovation arm of Sahamati, working at the forefront of weaving AI into India's open finance infrastructure.Watch live Mon/Wed/Fri at 4 PM IST

This episode brings together two very different worlds — elite performance and healthcare systems — with one common thread: decision-making under pressure.Paddy Upton breaks down what it actually means to build high-performance individuals and teams, lessons from working with Gukesh Dommaraju, and how mental conditioning differs from motivation.Brijraj Bhuptani explains how SPRY is rebuilding outpatient healthcare workflows with AI — from documentation to billing — and where AI meaningfully improves outcomes.

With us on the show today: Manas Gupta & Srikumar Nair spent 6+ years inside Blinkit — one on data, one on category. They saw how brands were evovlving. They built GobbleCube.$15M Series A. 400+ brands. HUL, Tata, L'Oréal, ITC, Reckitt. 30+ marketplaces.

Today's news:SpaceX eyes $60B Cursor dealMusk wants xAI-Mistral-Cursor allianceSBF's portfolio worth $150B+ nowAnthropic Mythos spooks Indian regulatorsRBI meets banks on Mythos risksPolymarket IPL markets cross $603KBernstein: India's AI job threatAngelList opens VC to everyoneGuests joining us:Akshay Jain built Mlada — a bootstrapped D2C women's fashion brand — from Ludhiana to ₹3 crore/month with no investors in under two years.Vinit Sarode co-founded Wavelength — an Antler-backed, voice-first AI dating app that matched 250 couples and saw satisfaction jump 6x after ditching the swipe.

This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with two founders building very different parts of the modern tech stack — one securing the physical world, one powering the intelligence layer of the digital one.Rohin Parkar, Co-Founder & CEO, Spintly — BLE-mesh wireless access control out of Goa. Closed $8 Mn Series A (Accel, Feb 2026), 500+ enterprise clients in India, ~100 in the US. 17 years in wireless/IoT across Motorola, Nokia, Broadcom.Rukesh Reddy (CEO) & Sajo Mathews (ML Lead), Deccan AI — post-training data + eval layer for frontier AI labs. Bay Area HQ, Hyderabad ops. Just raised $25 Mn Series A led by A91 Partners after 10x YoY growth. Expert network of 1 Mn+ IIT/IIM/AIIMS/PhD contributors.—— Join the conversation ——WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t X: https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite: https://www.theoffline.network #TheOfflineNetwork  #Spintly  #DeccanAI  #IndianStartups  #AIInfra  #IoT

This week's news: OpenAI turned Codex into a desktop superapp with computer use, Perplexity launched Personal Computer for Mac ($200/month), and Anthropic dropped Opus 4.7 — all on the same day. Jensen Huang went on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast and called the China-chip-as-nuclear-weapon comparison 'lunacy.' UPI turned 10 with 12,000x transaction growth. And the Cabinet approved Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 with a ₹10,000 crore corpus for deep tech.Aman Singh is the co-founder of S45, India's first AI-native investment bank. In this conversation, we get into how S45 is collapsing the IPO process from months to days, what it means to build financial infrastructure from first principles, and why India's mid-market capital opportunity is hiding in plain sight.Dilip Kumar leads investments at Rainmatter by Zerodha — a ₹1,000 crore perpetual fund that has deployed ₹1,500 crore across 160+ startups in health, fintech, and climate. We talk about building a fund that genuinely doesn't chase exits, the thesis behind 40+ health bets, and what the data from India's fitness startups is actually saying about how we live.Join the TON WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t X: https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite: https://www.theoffline.network #TheOfflineNetwork #AIInvesting #IndianStartups #RainmatterHealth #SMEIPOs #Episode80

From Hyrox to YC coming to India, today’s briefing:1/ Urmil Bakhai is the of SatLeo Labs, a spacetech startup building a constellation of thermal infrared microsatellites in Low Earth Orbit. The company has raised $5.5M in seed funding and crossed $42M in LOIs — and is targeting a Q4 2026 launch for its first satellite, TAPAS-1.2/ Harshit Yadav is Founder and CEO of Zingroll, an AI entertainment platform where users become the main character in AI-generated shows. Backed by a16z and selected for the Accel & Google AI Futures Fund Atoms Cohort 2026, Harshit is betting on personalised AI content as the next frontier in entertainment.

In the news today:Anthropic hits $30B run-rate revenue — up from $9B in Dec 2025Claude MythosNew Yorker's Sam Altman articleKreditBee raises $280M, valuation doubles to $1.5BGanesh Gopalan, Co-Founder & CEO of Gnani.ai — India's first 5B-parameter voice-to-voice AI model (Inya VoiceOS), 30M+ daily voice interactions, 200+ enterprise clients, IndiaAI Mission, $10M Series B.Avik Ashar & Devarsh Saraf built Bombay Founders' Club from 6 people to 300+ curated founders in two years — announcing international expansion today. Avik was Principal at Artha Venture Fund & Riverwalk Holdings. Devarsh left New York law to build this.📲 Join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t X (Twitter): https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website: https://www.theoffline.network

On today’s show:Gaurav Seth, CEO & Co-founder of PierSight Space, on building India's SAR+AIS satellite constellation for persistent ocean monitoring, what the IN-SPACe tech transfer unlocks, and the ₹1,200 Cr national EO constellation play.Rebhav Bharadwaj, CEO & Co-founder of Dodge AI, on building AI agents that automate SAP ERP maintenance for large enterprises — and what it took to get picked for the Accel + Google AI Futures Fund Atoms Cohort 2026.

For episode 76 of TON, we have:OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuationTBPN acquired by OpenAIWHOOP raises $575M — Abbott, Mayo Clinic, Ronaldo on the cap tableFlowmeter by AngelList India Ed. 01 — Seed→Series A now 905 days; 5yr MOIC 3–7.8xPratik Sharda (CraftifAI) — agentic AI for embedded software. $3M seed. Automates firmware and edge AI for robotics, drones, and IoT.Pranit Arora (Univest) — AI stock advisory for Indian retail investors. 5M+ users, ₹130Cr FY26 target. Not just what to buy — but when to exit.

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

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner of 8i Ventures — the seed fund behind Slice, M2P Fintech, Blue Tokai, and Signzy; Fund II closed at $50M. We talk about what’s still underbuilt for Indian consumers and SMBs, and what the DPI stack has left on the table for founders.Parth Chadha is the Founder & CEO of STAN — India’s social gaming community with 30M+ downloads, backed by Sony Innovation Fund, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and Google’s AI Futures Fund. We talk about what keeps a gaming community alive beyond installs, how the Gems model monetises, and when India’s gaming economy starts looking like Korea or Japan.Join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow The Offline NetworkX → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network

Sora is shutting down ($15M/day costs). Bryan Johnson says 5-MeO-DMT beat every longevity protocol he’s tried. A non-biologist built an mRNA vaccine for his dog’s cancer using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok — it’s working. And the rupee is almost at 95.We’re joined by Niyaz Laiq, Partner at Lumikai — India’s first gaming & interactive media VC. Founder, operator, investor. The $13.8B market, microdramas, live commerce, and where the real money in Indian interactive media actually lives.Join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t

This week: IPL sees a $3.4B wave as tech capital enters sports, while Jensen Huang’s “AGI is here” comment sparks debate on what AI can actually do today.In this episode, Siddharth Shetty of Finternet Lab breaks down building digital public infrastructure at scale, what it takes for systems like Account Aggregator to work, and how Finternet could enable seamless movement of value globally.Join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Elon Musk just announced a $25B chip fab — a bold bet on owning the AI supply chain.In this episode, Natasha Malpani of Boundless Ventures shares a contrarian view: the real value in AI may not sit in models or compute, but in applications and tooling.A conversation on where the next wave of AI companies will be built.Join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow The Offline NetworkX → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network 

Two bets: turning math into a game, and digitising procurement.Sudhanshu Bhatia (Matiks): 3.5 lakh+ users, building skill-based gaming around mental math.Gaurav Baheti (Procol): $20B+ procurement managed, now adding AI agents to automate decisions.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

Today’s episode connects three big shifts — edtech consolidation, new VC power, sales in the world of AI and the future of physical logistics.News:Unacademy × upGrad merge in a share-swap deal, Peak XV alumni launch Ambition Capital, Travis Kalanick re-emerges with Atoms - betting on industrial robotics over humanoids.Guest — Rishabh Ladha, EPIC World / ex-SquadStackRishabh breaks down what actually drives great enterprise sales, where AI genuinely helps vs where it’s noise, and why India’s GTM motion is still broken for most startups.Guest — Ankit Kumar, Skye Air Mobility3.6M autonomous deliveries, 200K/month in one city — we unpack drone logistics at scale, unit economics, regulation (BVLOS), and why India could lead this category globally.Join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow The Offline NetworkX → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network#TheOfflineNetwork #Startups #AI #VentureCapital #Drones #IndiaTech

This episode looks at two different perspectives on building and scaling companies in India.1/ Ashish Kumar, co-founder of Fundamentum Partnership, explains how growth-stage investors evaluate companies at Series B/C, what differentiates breakout companies from the rest, and what a defensible AI company from India might look like.2/ Aneesh Sheth shares the journey of building Dr. Sheth’s Skincare — a science-first brand rooted in dermatology — and what changed after the company was acquired by Honasa Consumer.Two conversations about scale, exits, and the realities of building in India today.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow The Offline NetworkX → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network #TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaStartups #VentureCapital #ConsumerBrands #Skincare

Today’s episode looks at where the real AI competition is happening.News:• a16z’s latest Gen AI rankings show ChatGPT capturing 87% of AI app usage, but the real battle is shifting from standalone apps to AI embedded inside workflows like documents, code, and communication tools.• Meta acquired Moltbook on March 10, with both founders joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs as the company accelerates its frontier AI push.Guest — Harsh Dwivedi & Niket Raj Dwivedi, MedialMedial is a professional network for India’s tech & startup ecosystem with 250k users. The founders discuss building for depth over scale, adding anonymity to unlock honest conversations, their Shark Tank deal with Ritesh Agarwal and more.Follow The Offline NetworkX → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

This episode brings together three very different startup stories:• Loud Echo — AI generating ad creative in real time, claiming 80% conversion on qualified sales calls.• Flent — premium house renting with 90–95% occupancy across 140 homes in Bangalore.• Basil — a D2C houseware brand already at ₹36 Cr ARR, aiming for ₹100 Cr next year.Three founders building across AI infrastructure, urban living, and consumer brands — and what they’re seeing on the ground right now.#IndiaStartups #AI #ConsumerBrands #PropTech #VentureCapital

Today’s healthcare special covers insurance, cancer care and a wildcard of the folks behind our merch.US stocks via GIFT city, capital losses & Leopold Aschenbrenner🎤 Guests• Abhishek Poddar — Co-founder & CEO, Plum — What the cancer claims data really tells us about India’s health insurance gap• Deepak Kumar — Co-founder, Oncare — Building cancer care infrastructure inside community hospitals across Delhi-NCR• Jinal & Vivek Ajmera — Co-founders, MYFANDOM — The artist merch layer India’s creator economy has been waiting for🔔 Join TON WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network#TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaTech #HealthTech #Insurance #CancerCare #CreatorEconomy #Merch #StartupIndia

Today’s episode connects geopolitics, AI capital, semiconductors, climate, and search — all in one show.📰 News• US–Iran escalation hits UAE; falling debris strikes an AWS Abu Dhabi zone as oil spikes to ~$69/barrel• OpenAI closes a $110B round at ~$730–840B valuation — largest private fundraise ever; India now 100M+ weekly users.🎙 Guest 1: Amritha Sreekumar — Alt Carbon / Alter MagazineClimate-tech meets craft.We discuss how AI, biotech and blockchain intersect with India’s 4.3M-strong handloom sector — and whether technology can preserve tradition without destroying it.🎙 Guest 2: Tanay Goel — GarantieWarranty-tech for OEMs at scale.1.5 crore+ customers, 200,000+ claims processed, 40% cost reduction via automation.Why extended warranties are becoming a $9B India opportunity.🎙 Guest 3: Saravana Maruthamuthu — optoMLAnalog-in-memory AI chips using light instead of copper. 12nm tapeout with TSMC. 50× energy efficiency claims. Can India carve out leverage in semiconductors without owning fabs?🎙 Guest 4: Nayrhit B — GushworkSEO for the AI era. 300+ paying customers, $1.5M ARR in ~3 months, 95% US B2B. How do you rank inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini — and will AI search tolerate optimisation for long?🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network#TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaTech #AI #ClimateTech #Semiconductors #StartupIndia #VentureCapital #Search

Three stories. One thread.AI is no longer a promise — it’s compressing jobs, moats, and partnerships in real time.• Jack Dorsey cuts 4,000 at Block, says AI-first teams can do more with less.• 18 major AI releases in 26 days — model half-life now measured in weeks.• Peak XV closes $1.3B fund amid carry drama and senior departures.The real question: are you building for 2021 structures — or 2026 reality?1/ Gouthami T S — AquaAirXClimate-tech solving industrial water recovery at scale — hardware + software, real revenue, and the economics behind water scarcity.2/ Madhav Garg — Jindal HealthcareScaling diagnostics and healthcare infra — quality, compliance, and what actually works beyond AI hype.3/ Pratap Narayan Singh — VervesemiIndia’s semiconductor opportunity — what’s realistic, what’s hype, and where chip design wins are emerging.4/ Shubham Kukreti & Sushant Pandey — Prava PaymentsAgentic payments for AI — enabling machines to transact autonomously across card networks.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode is about two tectonic shifts: AI agents rewriting enterprise software — and Indian fintech quietly scaling to billions.We break down Anthropic’s enterprise agent push, Notion’s 24/7 autonomous agents, and what this “SaaSpocalypse” really means. Then we go deep with two builders operating at the edge of AI and global fintech infrastructure.🎙 Guest 1: Udayan Walvekar — Co-founder & CEO, GrowthXFrom Razorpay to building a 5,000+ member growth community, Udayan now hosting India’s first OpenClaw Buildathon.🎙 Guest 2: Ashwin Bhatnagar — Co-founder, XFlowFresh off a $16.6M Series A led by General Catalyst, backed by both Stripe and PayPal Ventures.$1B annualized cross-border payment volume. 10x growth in one year. 15,000+ businesses served.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode is about long cycles and long bets.1/ Blume Ventures turns 15. Indian VC is finally seeing real DPI. India AI Week just happened. And the next decade may look nothing like the last.We go deep with Karthik Reddy on venture cycles, oligopolies, AI froth vs. atoms businesses, and what 15 years of backing founders has actually taught him.2/ Then Vineet Khanna breaks down how Supertails pivoted from marketplace to 24/7 vet clinics and why pet care might be India’s next scaled consumer category.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode is our India AI Week Special — from automotive AI hardware built in Noida to $200B AI pledges at Bharat Mandapam.We go deep with Sumit Roy on building telematics and connected vehicle hardware in India — and then break down the biggest, most surprising, and most controversial moments from India AI Week 2026.• 250,000+ registrations, 20+ heads of state, and $200B+ AI infra pledges positioned India at the center of global AI diplomacy.• Government launched “New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments” and approved a ₹9,500 Cr ($1.1B) AI-focused VC fund.• Sarvam unveiled sovereign 30B & 105B models and teased AI smart glasses built on India-trained models.• Sam Altman said India is “well-positioned to lead AI” after 100M weekly ChatGPT users.• Vinod Khosla predicted India’s IT & BPO sector could disappear by 2030.From cracking consumer auto at FidoMotus to becoming a Tier-I supplier for Volvo Eicher and Sonalika in just 24 months — Sumit explains why he bet on telematics hardware, why he’s building a 1M+ unit Noida facility, and how AI diagnostics can save fleets ₹5K–10K per hour in downtime.25–30K devices deployed. ₹160 Cr+ order book. Multi-satellite stack (GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS, NAVIC). V2V-ready.Is India finally ready for deep automotive AI hardware?• Emergent hits $100M ARR in 8 months — one of the fastest-growing AI-native startups globally.• Thrive Capital closes $10B fund — doubling every 2 years.• Jack Altman joins Benchmark; Alt Capital winds down.• Apple accelerates AI wearables — smart glasses and AI-native devices coming 2027.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode looks at India’s AI inflection point — from global AI power plays to homegrown voice agents and hacker houses building the next wave.• OpenAI acqui-hires OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger, blurring the line between open source and Big AI consolidation.• India hits 100M weekly ChatGPT users as AI diplomacy and domestic production questions collide.• Blackstone backs Neysa with up to $1.2B, marking India’s largest AI infra bet yet.• Government clears $1.1B fund-of-funds as Peak XV backs C2i — compute, capital and silicon align.1/ Aman Goel — Co-founder & CEO, GreyLabs AIFrom Cogno’s acquisition to building AI voice agents for 50+ BFSI clients, Aman breaks down the real economics of replacing contact-centre work with AI and what “autonomous voice” actually means in regulated India.2/ Suhas Sumukh — Co-founder & COO, LocalHostA 19-year-old running a VC-hacker house hybrid, Suhas shares how LocalHost selects builders, why geography still limits Indian founders, and whether the “vibe coding” era rewrites the traditional startup path.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network📰 News (1-liners each)🎙 Guests

Today’s episode connects a $30B AI mega-round, India’s AI film moment, and a fashion supply-chain comeback story — all in one.Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation — $14B run-rate, 500+ $1M customers, and the cap table overlaps that define the AI power game.“Something Big Is Happening” essay goes viral (80M impressions) — arguing AI is now a general substitute for cognitive work.Sarvam AI drops Indic OCR VLM — handles 12 Indian scripts and messy real-world docs better than global models.Bajaj Finance scales AI to core ops — 20M AI calls processed, ₹1,925Cr loans attributed to AI, 120K+ AI ads in one quarter.From a late-night brainstorm to India’s national AI summit stage — how AI filmmaking is reshaping talent discovery, copyright debates, and the creator apprenticeship model.After plateauing at $7M ARR, invideo bet everything on AI — now at $70M ARR and 60K daily signups; what’s the moat when models commoditize?From returning capital in 2024 to EBITDA-positive in 2025 — fixing India’s $15B apparel export gap with tech, Europe focus, and GenAI on the factory floor.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network🔥 News🎬 Guest 1: Chandan Perla, Hardeep Gambhir & Sanket Shah — invideo AI Film Festival🚀 Guest 2: Sanket Shah — CEO, invideo🧵 Guest 3: Pawan Gupta — CEO & Co-founder, Fashinza🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode moves from AI lab instability to early-stage venture conviction to new-age Indian consumer brands.🗞️ News • Anthropic’s Head of Safeguards Research quits, warning “the world is in peril,” as multiple senior safety researchers exit in two weeks — raising fresh questions about AI governance stability.• Sarvam AI outperforms Gemini in OCR, doubling down on India-first capability with distinctly Indian branding.🎙️ Guests1/ Yash Goyal — Co-founder & CEO, KrvvyBuilding a D2C innerwear brand in a crowded market: Shark Tank learnings, positioning vs legacy players, unit economics, and what’s next.2/ Rahul Chowdhri — Partner, Stellaris Venture PartnersOn leading business-plan stage bets, founder-first investing, anti-portfolio regrets, ecosystem shifts, and what sectors are overhyped vs under-loved today.3/ Akriti Gupta — Founder & CEO, LoopieThree baby brands in three years: why premium parenting is rising in India, unit economics in a low-repeat category, and how to build trust in high-stakes products.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode looks at how culture, trust, and branding collide at scale—from the Super Bowl becoming an AI advertising battleground to building a food brand that bets on honesty over hype.🗞️ NewsSuper Bowl LX became the “AI Bowl,” with ~$600M in ad revenue, multiple AI ad misfires, and a visible backlash as tech giants fought for cultural mindshare, not just attention.🎙️ GuestShashank Mehta — Co-founder & CEO, The Whole Truth Foods on building a clean-label food brand in India, fixing broken protein supply chains, staying honest before profitable, and what “trust” actually costs.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network

Today’s episode unpacks Alphabet’s record $180B AI CapEx call, India’s new deep tech startup category, and founders building real impact in agritech and applied learning.🗞️ News Highlights• Alphabet Q4 & CapEx: Alphabet crossed $400B annual revenue and plans $175–185B CapEx in 2026, signaling the largest AI infrastructure bet ever and putting Bangalore at the heart of expansion.• India’s Startup Definition: The government launched a Deep Tech Startup category with 20-year recognition and a ₹300cr turnover cap to better support long-gestation deep tech firms.• Claude vs ChatGPT: OpenAI is exploring ads for ChatGPT while Anthropic’s Claude rejects them — highlighting diverging bets on scale vs premium user experience.🎙️ Guest SegmentsMark Kahn — Managing Partner, OmnivoreOn why he backed agritech before infrastructure existed, how real agritech companies create value, and what founders get wrong about precision tech, margins, and impact.Vivek Sinha — Founder & CEO, EmversityWhy he pivoted from online to on-job learning, how partnerships with corporates and campuses structure outcomes, how placement and internships work, and what Emversity learned from past efforts at scale.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network#TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaTech #Startups #AI #CapEx #Alphabet #DeepTech #Agritech #Education #Omnivore #Emversity

Today’s episode breaks down one of the most consequential corporate moves of the decade — SpaceX acquiring xAI — and what it signals for AI, compute, and capital at planetary scale. We also look at how venture firms evolve over cycles, why India exits remain hard, and what this means for founders building real businesses on the ground.SpaceX acquires xAI to form a vertically integrated AI–space–internet stack.Starlink now funds AI scale, rockets become data-center infrastructure, and Grok plugs into a 560M-user distribution layer. Combined implied value approaches $1T+.Peak XV sees senior MD exits as partners spin out to start new funds.History suggests Sequoia/Peak XV alumni firms consistently strengthen the ecosystem.Accel India LP data surfaces: early funds delivered historic returns; recent vintages reflect slower exits, markdowns, and a tougher India liquidity cycle.India–US trade deal snapshot: $30B exports still face tariffs, $44B tariff-free; autos and agriculture remain red lines.A grounded look at building a mass-market sustainable brand in India — from formulation and unit economics to surviving quick-commerce chaos, Tier-2/3 loyalty, and why affordability beats premium sustainability in Indian households.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_tFollow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAirInstagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetworkLinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonairWebsite → https://www.theoffline.network📰 News Highlights🎙️ Guest Segment — Mayank Jain (Co-founder, Cleevo)

Today’s episode moves between India’s Budget signals, AI systems that feel unsettling, and what it takes to build fast consumer brands.🗞️ News — Quick ScanBudget 2026 tightens speculation, flips buyback taxes, rewards long-term compute, and makes unproductive vices expensive.🎙️ Guest SegmentsArun Kumar Gandlur & Srijan ShettyA grounded teardown of Moltbook: what’s real vs hype, whether it’s infra or demo, why people project meaning onto AI outputs, how LLM biases form, and the least dramatic but most likely long-term outcome of agent social systems. We also discuss normalization of deviance, failure modes, and whether delegation discomfort is technical or philosophical.Aparna Saxena — Founder & CEO, AntinormFrom Shark Tank to ₹1 Cr/month in 6 months with just 5 products. Aparna breaks down brand velocity, Gen-Z teams, the shift from 10-step routines to multifunctional skincare, what’s uniquely Indian about beauty, and what tech-driven personalization can (and can’t) do next. Plus, what the ₹28 Cr seed unlocks over the next year.🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community:https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network