I make you speak - "holy shit that's genius" ✸ All things Growth ✸ Chief Vibe Officer @residencyBLR ✸
Bengaluru, India
Joined February 2022
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Nimisha Chanda retweeted
We're welcoming the best VC funds in India to come join us for @residencyBLR's Demo Day on 22nd Oct
Who's on stage:
>deeptech founders building in aerospace, biotech, energy etc
>consumer founders who've done $2M ARR & $200K pre-revenue in the US
Link: luma.com/4qcjcvp4?tk=0lb2pk
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
Introducing Tulip, the design layer for AI-built software.
Tulip turns your brief into a governed design system that stays in sync across Figma and code, then pushes it straight into your agents via MCP.
Taste infrastructure for a world where AI writes the UI.
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Nimisha Chanda retweeted
This week, we hosted Pramod, the founder of Triam AI , for a finance 101 session at @residencyBLR.
In this workshop, we covered:
> the basics of finance and entity setup
> the kind of entity you should be choosing
> what the legal compliances are related to
> incorporating in India and incorporating in the US
> why bookkeeping and a data room are important while raising
thank you Pramod for spending time with the residents.
RT @residencyBLR: meet Ximi. he turned down a Cambridge PhD to build his startup.
this guy is
> an IIT silver medallist
> published resear…
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
the final demoday is here!
> one already has $2M+ in sales.
> one is working on autonomous aircrafts
> one prev. ran a million-dollar company, and is already at $200k+ with this one.
> all of them are looking at a multi-billion-dollar outcome
showcasing 8 teams building across biotech, consumertech, hardware, physical AI and more!
watch them demo live on 22nd Oct at @residencyBLR final demo day in bangalore.
powered by @lightspeedindia | banking partner @IDFCFIRSTBank.
limited seats. link in the comments. come by!
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
If you have a Client, Friend or anyone in your network building a startup in #Bengaluru, do ping me.
I'll feature you on Doordarshan's Flagship Show NextGen Bharat🇮🇳.
#BangaloreStartups #BangaloreFounders – at Bengaluru, India
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
cyan banister, gp @LongJourneyVC ($450M fund), turned 50k to 500M by investing early in uber
she was also early on space x, anduril, crusoe, deepmind, and uber
her secret? the biggest opportunities often start where others see something weird
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
Being early doesn't make you a co-founder.
Staying does.
I spend a lot of time around early-stage companies, mostly founders in their early 20s figuring out co-founder relationships for the first time.
One question keeps coming up, usually too late: When does someone stop being a helper and start being a co-founder?
When they stop having an exit.
When their time, money, and name are tied to this one thing. When walking away would cost them as much as it costs you. When they stay through the months where nothing works, not just the months where things look good.
Until then, they're helping. That's valuable, but it isn't co-founding.
You don't become a co-founder by joining early. You don't become one by having the idea, sitting in the first meeting, or building a feature over a few weekends. You become one by staying, and by carrying the weight when it gets heavy.
The simplest test: if this company dies tomorrow, who loses the most? That person is the founder. The title follows the risk.
The clearest moment is a burning boat. A co-founder grabs a bucket. Everyone else looks for the nearest way off.
The pattern I keep seeing goes like this. Someone contributes a little: some intros, a few calls, some weekend work. A few months later they want the co-founder title and equity. And when the person who has actually been building says no, he's the one who gets called greedy or insecure.
Then the company hits a rough patch, and the same people disappear. They assume it'll run on its own. And when it doesn't, they come back only to point fingers. The person they blame is always the same one. The one who never left.
That's not how it works.
And this isn't about complementary skills. Technical and sales, builder and seller, you've done those checks, and they matter. But skills tell you who can do the work. They don't tell you who will stay when it stops working.
Helpers deserve thanks, pay, maybe a small advisor stake. Co-founders are the ones who stayed.
So don't hand out the title because someone asked, or because saying no felt awkward. Give it to the person who would still be standing next to you if everything went wrong.
That's your co-founder.
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
The most impressive people I know spent their time with their head down getting shit done for a long, long time.
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
at pre-seed, a VC isn't evaluating your product. they're evaluating you.
Raghav from @AntlerIndia told our founders exactly how, today at @residencyBLR
VCs look in a founder for audacity, grit, agency, clarity and the unfair advantage they may have.
then comes the market.
and before any VC writes a cheque, they need to believe 3 things:
> this will be a large outcome
> you're the best team to build it
> and, now is the right time
he also talked about some practical stuff.
> analysts skim 1,000 decks. so one slide headline should tell your whole story.
> your first 2-3 slides carry the pitch. big market + right team, and you have the room.
> write a "founder document" before you touch the deck. brain-dump everything you know about the problem, the market and your go-to-market.
> and, the fastest way to a VC meeting is a referral from one of their portfolio founders.
thank you Raghav for dropping by the house and sharing your insights :)
p.s. want to build from the house? link to apply for our next cohort is in the comments.
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
week 3 at @residencyBLR and honestly, the evenings are getting better every week.
yesterday, we had Vishnu Das, an advisor at FSID, @iisc_forum, and before that he led deep tech investments at @CelestaCapital, including their bet on @AgnikulCosmos
we had someone in the room who's actually backed the kind of companies our founders are trying to build.
he talked about LOIs. we all treat a signed LOI like proof. but he said in deep tech, if you don't move on it within 6 to 10 months, it just stops meaning anything.
he also said investors look at two things separately.
> does your tech actually work,
> and can your team actually execute.
being great at one doesn't save you on the other.
we talked about how IISc supports deep tech founders through FSID grants too. also, he wrote out a formula for efficiency in aerospace, and then sat with our founders and went through their use cases one by one to see which ones actually held up.
thank you Vishnu, for your time and for backing our founders the way you did.
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
Ask your marketer, your AE and your CSM what your company does. You'll likely get three different companies.
Today, that changes. We launched ThunderCat 🐈⬛
@sdntsng
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
Paweł Huryn tested models' ability to find bugs planted in code. Cost increases exponentially with performance (note the log scale on the x axis). I had ChatGPT superimpose a trend line. Bargain = above the line.
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
you thought it was just Bhopal ???
@claudeai Fable Build Day is coming to Bengaluru on 26th Sept!
Come see what’s new with Claude Fable and spend the day building something of your own.
🚀Best part: Everyone gets Fable 5 credits!!
Supported by
@knowShubhangi @residencyBLR @anakinHQ
Nimisha Chanda retweeted
the pitch here is that content moved in waves, text to images to video, and interactive is next. it's a clean story. but look at why each of those waves won. every shift made content easier to consume. images needed less effort than text. video needed less effort than images. you just sit there and it plays.
interactive asks for more. you have to tap, choose, talk back.
100+ enterprise customers in six quarters is impressive sales work though.
where interactivity does win, it's usually when the person is the content: snapchat lenses, virtual try-ons, photo filters, etc. nobody wanted to touch a brand's 3D object, but everyone wanted to see their own face with dog ears. the interaction worked because it was about the user, not the product.
so if i were betting on flam, i wouldn't bet on "interactive replaces video." i'd bet on the narrow places where interaction is about the viewer.
swap yourself into the ad. try the product on. talk to a character that knows your context. that's a market i think. it's just a lot smaller and harder than "the next default for the internet."
that said, i'm genuinely excited to see how interactive actually plays out. if anyone can make it stick past the novelty phase, a team shipping at this speed has a real shot.
curious if anyone here has run interactive formats for a brand and seen them hold. would love to hear what worked.
announcing @flamappofficial's $40M Series B led by @QEDInvestors with @iamsrk @rtpvc @RMartinChavez @oliveur joining the rocketship
its time to break free 🚀