Rohit Kaul

I've been nerding out on Quick Commerce for the last few weeks and have just published our latest 6,000-word Field Notes deep dive on how to nail and scale on Quick Commerce. Three operators who’re actually thriving in this chaos—Prince (@SwagAnusaar) of @plushforher, Tushar of…

This is perhaps the most important piece from Google's latest results. Google is dropping $85B on AI and cloud this year—$10B higher than their last forecast. But maybe the real risk isn’t overspending, but not spending enough. Sharp, nuanced take on the AI arms race by…

Exits Season: Partial sale of Spinny returns 30% of our Fund II for dollar investors (40% for rupee investors), Continuation Funds Take Off, and ITC Goes Organic Every month, we decode some of the most notable exits in the ecosystem via secondaries, M&A’s , and IPOs’. Karthik B.…

🚀 Blume Portfolio Recap: Breaking New Ground in AI, Health Tech, and Mobility! SuperK raises funds to expand retail in India’s tier-2 and tier-3 towns, while Ati Motors crosses 1M+ autonomous robot missions globally. Here's what our founders have been up to: 💸 Funding News…

VC's are in the business of seeing the future. But not many could predict what would happen with @BatterySmartIN. When @pulkit_kh (Pulkit) and @sidsikka (Siddharth) pitched their battery swap solution for EV rickshaws in 2018, many investors scoffed at the idea. Building a…

Two founders spotted a billion-dollar opportunity where everyone else saw nothing—and built an EV juggernaut from a tiny Delhi shop into India’s EV backbone. ⚡🛺 In 2020, while most investors were still debating if EVs would ever happen in India, two friends, Pulkit Khurana…

🏪 Small-town retail revolution: @SuperK_Stores Raises ₹100 Cr in Series B SuperK (Fund IV) has raised ₹100 crore in Series B funding led by @binnybansal's (Binny Bansal) 3STATE Ventures and @CaratLane founder @SachetiMithun (Mithun Sacheti) . Cricket star @ShubmanGill also…

The most under-appreciated truth about personal productivity is that it has nothing to do with efficiency but priority.

💡 From a tiny Delhi shop to powering India's largest EV network — this is how two IITians built @BatterySmartIN (Fund IV) into a 125,000 swaps/day powerhouse In the sweltering Delhi summer of 2020, @pulkit_kh (Pulkit) and @sidsikka (Siddharth) were running their fledgling…

🚀 Join Blume's Portfolio Stars 🚀 Our portfolio companies are hiring for key roles across functions - here's your chance to join some of India's most innovative startups! 💻 @atomicworkhq (Fund IV) Automates internal operations across enterprises with a next-gen platform that…

I don't know if @sundarpichai writes his tweets himself, or some agency/internal team handles it for him, but in the age of almost robotic sounding, AI-generate drivel, this tweet thread is like a breath of fresh air. It reads authentic enough to believe he wrote it himself.…

Tried Dia by @browsercompany and watched plenty of Comet demos by @AskPerplexity. I’m sure there are other AI-first browsers,u too. They all share the same Achilles heel: not a single killer use case that beats the Chrome + Extensions combo. Yes, the bet is that everyone will…

🚀 Join Blume's Portfolio Stars 🚀 Our portfolio companies are hiring for key roles across functions - here's your chance to join some of India's most innovative startups! 💄 @letspurplle (Fund I vintage) India's premier omnichannel beauty destination with 1,000+ brands,…

Great products don’t whisper. They show up big, bold, and on the 101. Team @atomicworkhq is just getting warmed up here :)

Live on the 101 near South Airport Boulevard in the Bay Area. Idea from the bossman @amnigos.

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Dwight is the philosopher we didn’t know we needed.