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A milestone for Activate. Day one for what comes next. 🇮🇳 Today, we’re announcing the final close of our debut fund, building a $105M (~₹1,000 crore) investment platform dedicated to India’s AI opportunity, less than a year after launching. Activate was built around a simple belief: India isn’t behind in AI, its simply early. Our ambition is to build more than a venture fund: a platform that brings together capital, founders, talent, research, enterprises and the global AI leaders to help build India's AI ecosystem. In our first nine months, we’ve made 10 investments across Inception and Global Growth. Thank you to our founders, LPs, partners and the broader AI community for believing in this mission. India’s AI moment is just beginning. Read the full story in The Economic Times → economictimes.indiatimes.com…

The future of Wealth & Wealthtech is being built right now! Brilliant insights on AI, money and consumer finance from @miten (@CRED_club), @rushi_chavan875 (Founder, @FinstocksAI) and @_saksham_mittal at The New Consumer Playbook!

Decoding how AI is reshaping Consumer Tech with @RohanNayak2 (Founder, @PocketFM_App), @soaibgrewal (Activate) and @ishaanpreet (@LightspeedIndia).

Reshaping how the world learns and builds. Unbelievable energy on stage with @mukul_classplus (Founder, @ClassplusApps), @_puneetKumar (Founder, Neevu) and @ravneet_me (Founder, ProLearn)

It's a Full House at Activate x @LightspeedIndia - The New Consumer Playbook: How We’ll Listen, Learn and Invest With AI! Incredible energy at Bengaluru as founders, builders and Investors talk about Consumer Tech.

How will AI change how we listen, learn, and invest?  Join Activate and @LightspeedIndia in Bangalore for The New Consumer Playbook! 🚀  Featuring: 🎙️ Rohan Nayak (@PocketFM_App) 📚 Mukul Rustagi (@ClassplusApps), Ravneet Singh (ProLearn), Puneet Kumar (Neevu) 💰 Miten Sampat (@CRED_club), Rushikesh Chavan (@FinStocksAI), Saksham Mittal (Stealth) 🤝 Hosted by Ishaan Singh (Lightspeed) & Soaib Grewal (Activate)  📅 October 30th | ⏰ 6:00 PM onwards |📍Bangalore  RSVP here: luma.com/ConsumerAIPlaybook (By invitation)  @miten @RohanNayak2 @mukul_classplus @ravneet_me @_puneetKumar @rushi_chavan875 @_saksham_mittal @aakrit @ishaanpreet @soaibgrewal @177pc

Earlier this week, Activate hosted our first-ever San Francisco gathering alongside our partners @KindredVentures! We brought together ~100 founders & investors along the India-US corridor under one roof for an insightful session to explore the evolving cross-border AI landscape. We covered Tanay Kothari's (@tankots) journey building @WisprFlow from New Delhi to San Francisco followed by panel insights from Deedy Das (@deedydas), Neeraj Arora (@neerajarora) & Satyan Gajwani (@satyan) that was moderated by Aakrit Vaish (@aakrit) on building along the bridge. The evening also featured an emerging class of Indian founders: Soham Ganatra (@GanatraSoham), Deshraj Yadav (@deshrajdry) & Sudhanshu Mishra (@snmishra311) who are building groundbreaking AI startups in the US, the panel was moderated by Steve Jang (@stevejang). Huge thank you to our incredible speakers, founders, and investors for making it an evening to remember!

Where is Indian Consumer AI heading next? 🚀 Join @LightspeedIndia and Activate for an evening with founders and product leaders exploring the future of consumer tech. We’ll dive into deep conversations on AI-native startups, incumbent integration and targeted panel discussions on key emerging areas in consumer AI. If you’re a Consumer AI or Consumer Tech Founder, this event is for you! 📅 October 30th |📍Bengaluru | 🎟️ RSVP: luma.com/ConsumerAIPlaybook

Another edition of Mixture of Experts is in the books! We were delighted to host Rahul Patil (CTO, @AnthropicAI) in India for an evening of deep technical conversations. From Rahul’s opening presentation to his panel with Pratyush Choudhury (@177pc), the discussion unpacked practical approaches to scaling production AI, improving inference performance and building resilient infrastructure. Thank you to the Anthropic India Team, AI founders, engineering leads and builders who made this such a high-signal gathering! @aakrit @soaibgrewal

Mixture of Experts - Delhi Edition with @offline_members/@encore_members was a full house! Big thanks to @vikramchopra, @alokebajpai, @dhruvsharma_in and @soaibgrewal for dropping serious insights on stage. Top learnings: 💡 How to transition operations into a truly AI-native company 💡 Using AI internally for massive efficiency gains 💡 The huge untapped opportunity for consumer AI in India Thank you to everyone who joined us! @aakrit @177pc @somani_utsav

Delhi is buzzing tonight! ⚡️ A packed house at Mixture of Experts | Delhi Edition hearing from @vikramchopra (@cars24india) and @soaibgrewal (Activate). Sharing candid thoughts on leveraging AI internally and capturing consumer opportunities.

A fantastic session underway at Mixture of Experts. We have: 🔹 Aloke Bajpai (@alokebajpai, ixigo) 🔹 Dhruv Sharma (@_dhruvsharma, AngelList India) Discussing the future of AI-native companies!

Delhi is buzzing with AI energy⚡️ It's a full house at our Mixture of Experts - Delhi edition! Powered by Activate and @offline_members/@encore_members.

We are honored to host Rahul Patil (CTO, @AnthropicAI) on his visit to India! 🇮🇳 From leading global payment infrastructure to scaling compute and inference currently at Anthropic, Rahul is one of the top experts in production-grade AI systems. Join us for an off-the-record Mixture of Experts gathering hosted by Pratyush Choudhury (@177pc). Space is strictly limited. Request a spot here: luma.com/g6hcvhe2

Meet the speakers at Mixture of Experts | Gurgaon! On 15 Oct, Activate & @offline_members/@encore_members are bringing together top leaders building at the frontier of AI for our new edition of Mixture of Experts. Join us for an evening of candid conversations with: 🎙️ @alokebajpai (@ixigo) on consumer AI and leveraging AI internally. 🎙️@vikramchopra (@cars24india) on building AI-native companies and @DeploymentInc. Along with @soaibgrewal, @somani_utsav & @dhruvsharma_in. Request an invite here: luma.com/pqutmcpz

Shaping the future of AI at GIFT City. Our 'Mixture of Experts' with IFSCA featured Shri K. Rajaraman on GIFT City’s tech evolution, Dr. Dipesh Shah on leveraging the local ecosystem, and a deep dive into operating realities for founders with Joseph Joshy, Som Dutt, and Aakrit Vaish. Thank you to the brilliant builders who joined us. @aakrit @IFSCA_Official