India’s only dedicated pre-seed fund, investing across FinTech, ConsumerTech & Enterprise AI. SEBI No: IN/AIF1/20-21/0855 (CAT I) & IN/AIF2/24-25/1566 (CAT II)
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AI is becoming the default. So, what will make an AI startup last?
We analysed 2,760 YC startups to understand which AI businesses are surviving & where the next opportunities could emerge.
Our latest Mini-Thesis, After the AI Rush, is out! 📖👇
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Startup dictionary: “Let’s revisit this next quarter.”
Translation: We know it’s important. Nobody has the bandwidth to deal with it.
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A startup can go from “too early for us” to “wish we’d met them earlier” pretty quickly.
Especially when another investor shows interest.
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Everyone’s pretty good at spotting potential.
Especially once someone’s already made it.
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At 22, people love calling you ambitious.
At 32, they start asking when you're planning to settle down.
Didn't realise ambition came with an expiry date.
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A competitor raises $20M & suddenly your perfectly reasonable growth targets start looking a little too small.
They looked pretty good yesterday :)
Nearly 1 in 4 mature AI sales startups had shut down.
For Marketing AI? Zero out of 29.
Same AI wave. Very different outcomes.
What explains the gap? Our latest #EximiusEcho 👇
eximiusecho.substack.com/p/w…
Pre-seed, Seed, Series A… same startup journey, very different expectations. Here’s a simple breakdown of what actually changes at each stage 👇
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At a startup, “quick question” is rarely quick.
And almost never just a question.
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Startup life is funny.
You can spend two weeks debating a feature internally.
Then a customer says one sentence & the entire roadmap changes.
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A fundraise can look very active on your calendar & completely dead in your bank account.
Hard to explain that kind of progress to yourself.
Imagine building an AI startup, only to find 20 others chasing the same idea.
22.9% of mature @ycombinator AI startups had shut down.
Why are obvious AI opportunities so hard to survive in?
Our latest #EximiusEcho 👇
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Some of the best founder days are probably the ones nobody hears about:
- A key hire says yes.
- A customer renews.
- Payroll clears.
- Someone great decides to stay.
Just a slightly easier night's sleep :)
Q3 funding was up 5% YoY, but AI & Deeptech did most of the lifting, while Fintech & Ecommerce declined.
Depending on what you’re building, your market may look very different from the market.
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Some days, being a founder is just calming everyone else down while quietly trying to calm yourself down too.
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Everyone wants to make a non-consensus bet.
The non-consensus part is a lot less fun when you actually have to make one.
Why we invested in #Myca 🌾
Agribusiness still runs on fragmented field data.
Myca turns calls, messages, photos & spreadsheets into structured workflows + AI-led execution.
Excited to back its $1.3M pre-seed round alongside Kriscore Capital 💫
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Looking back, some of the most useful messages I’ve got from founders were also the simplest:
“This isn’t working. Can you help me think through it?”
Those were usually the moments when I could actually be useful.