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Blume Day is here! 🎉 15 years of backing founders with outsized ambition. Follow along for updates throughout the day 🧵 #BlumeDay2026 #TheOrbitsAreShifting @BKartRed @AshishFafadia @sajithpai @sanjaynath @arpiit @riashroff @saritaraichu @mehtaalok @mitul_am @SeekingN0rth @DeepikaDakuda @gauthamsiv @ray_elton99 @vikramg05

Blume Day is here! And this one’s special. 15 years. That's how long we've been on this journey: investing, nurturing, and growing alongside India's startup ecosystem. And every year, to mark this occasion, our partner @BKartRed (Karthik) reflects on where we've been and where we're headed. This year's piece captures something profound: the shift in Orbits and the ecosystem's amplified ambition. For decades, India lived in the gap between potential and reality. We were the country that was always about to break through. Eventually, we'd move beyond back-office work to an innovation hub. Eventually, "Made in India" would mean cutting-edge, not just cost-effective. Eventually, our unicorns would become decacorns. We were always a country that felt like it was on the precipice of something big. But never quite there yet. That era is over. Just as electrons don't climb gradually between orbits, they jump in one explosive burst or not at all, we are witnessing India's startup ecosystem make that leap in real time. The macro proof points are undeniable: → Companies listing not at $1 billion, but at $10 billion+ valuations → Founders openly declaring $100 billion ambitions for the next decade → The world's cheapest and most effective digital infrastructure powering mass-scale innovation → A ₹100,000 crore government fund for deep tech We're not on the precipice anymore. We've jumped. Sixty years after Bob Dylan sang about changing times, we're living through our own version: The Orbits, They Are a-Shiftin'. Read the full piece here: blume.vc/commentaries/the-or… @BKartRed @AshishFafadia @sajithpai @sanjaynath @arpiit @riashroff @saritaraichu @mehtaalok @mitul_am @SeekingN0rth @DeepikaDakuda @gauthamsiv @ray_elton99 @vikramg05

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