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A91 Partners is buying into India’s everyday ambitions
Coffee, ceiling fans, insurance and software: A91 Partners backs the businesses a growing India buys and uses. Its $665 million third fund puts a larger price on a patient, hands-on approach.
Kesava Dinakaran Solved 290 Cubes. Then He Took On a Bigger Puzzle
A cube record, 4,000 kilometers by bicycle and more than 100 unanswered investor emails taught Luminai's founder the same lesson: complicated systems yield to patient, repeatable moves.
Onkar Borade Is Teaching Enterprise Software to Install Itself
The Lab0 co-founder has moved from trading algorithms and invoice finance to a stubborn corporate bottleneck: software that sells in weeks but takes months to deploy. His answer is a small team of AI agents - and a much shorter path to go-live.
Mukund Jha Is Turning Plain English Into Working Software
After Google, two early startup misses and eight years building Dunzo, Mukund Jha started again with his twin brother. Their bet is simple: the person who understands a problem should be able to build the software that solves it.
Abhishek Nayak
After two exits, one shutdown and years spent watching teams rebuild the same back-office software, Abhishek Nayak found his durable idea in the work nobody puts on a billboard.
Sathya Sampat
Sathya Nellore Sampat is the General Partner and co-founder of BoldCap, a pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund backing AI-native B2B startups built by Indian-origin founders for global markets. An engineer by training and entrepreneur at heart, Sampat built and scaled a data modernization startup to $3M in revenue before pivoting to venture capital in 2021. At BoldCap, he writes $250K-$1M checks into companies in Data/AI, developer infrastructure, vertical SaaS, and cybersecurity - and goes far beyond capital with Bracket, a proprietary GTM network connecting Indian founders to North American and European revenue leaders.