Shiva Singh Sangwan
@shivassangwan
Investing via @1947rise II Former Tennis National Champion || Prev: @AngelList India || @SocialLeverage
Announcing the 1947 Rise Fund. The world’s first fund focused on backing reverse brain drain talent and highly ambitious Indian tech entrepreneurs. 1947 Rise Fund is backed by one of the world's best GPs, founders, and operators. bit.ly/3pgpxqV
I asked Sanket Shah (founder of InVideo): “If you could have dinner with any 3 people, who would they be?” His picks: ✅ Sachin Bansal ✅ Deepinder Goyal ✅ Adit Bhavish Aggarwal if there was room for a 4th. “All of them are beasts. They took big bets & built at insane scale.”…
From Google Maps to Uber to Microsoft Teams — how do you bring a consumer mindset to enterprise software? On the 1947 Rise Podcast, I spoke with Manik Gupta, Corporate VP at Microsoft (Teams), about: 🔹 Building the consumer version of Teams 🔹 Leading a product with 330M+…
AI is Democratizing Intelligence! The internet gave us access to knowledge. AI is giving us access to intelligence. When Google came along, it changed how we searched. When YouTube grew, it changed how we learned. Now, AI is changing how we think, work, and live. In my…
“India’s deep tech moment is inevitable.” — Sahill Poddar, founder of Parafin On the 1947 Rise Podcast, Sahill shared a powerful perspective: 🇮🇳 Indian startups are no longer just copying the West. We're now seeing India-first innovations—like Zepto and Blinkit—built for our…
Let's now focus on on-demand and commerce in the AFTWL deck for 2Q25. For those who don't know, "A Few Things We Learned" is a quarterly publication by the Octahedron team, and is curated business commentary from management teams representing the most important companies in…
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Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.
💡 Why did Fundamentum start? I asked Ashish Kumar from The Fundamentum Partnership (co-founded by Nandan Nilekani) what made them launch the fund. His answer was clear: “In 2017, we saw a big gap. Lots of early-stage funds were writing seed and Series A cheques. But if you…
“Are you really in India?” That’s what Manik Gupta (ex-CPO @Uber, now VP @Microsoft Teams) asked Indian founders. Because the ambition, playbooks & execution in India are now world-class. → Booming consumer market → Commercially sharp founders → Fastest-growing dev…
Had a great chat with @shivassangwan about life, product, and lessons learned along the way. Always fun.
From Lucknow to leading global tech at Google, Uber, and Microsoft. Manik Gupta's journey is nothing short of extraordinary. He led Google Maps in India, became Chief Product Officer at Uber during its IPO, and now heads Microsoft Teams (350M+ users!) as Corporate VP. When I…
If you could invite any 3 people—dead or alive—for dinner, who would you pick? I asked Sahil Vora (founder of Sila) on the podcast. His picks: 1. Dhoni 2. Messi 3. Ramy Ashour (squash legend & old friend) All 3 are athletes. Says a lot about what he values: discipline,…
What shaped Anil Goteti the most as a kid? When most of us were still playing with cassette tapes, Anil Goteti had the internet in 7th grade. Why? His dad was one of the early employees at HCL, selling computers across India in the 80s. That kind of early exposure shaped…
Anand Jain wasn’t looking to start a startup. But when Bandra users kept seeing tractor ads, he thought — this is broken. He and 2 engineer friends hacked together a personalized ad engine. Their company said no. So they quit. No salary, no plan — just conviction. That’s how…
India won't win by building another ChatGPT. LogiNext’s Dhruvil says: skip the LLM race. Focus on non-LLM AI—industry-specific, operational, small models. The real edge? Local context, real problems, untapped use cases. Bold bet. Big opportunity. @dhruvilsanghvi