Vikram Vaidyanathan
@VikramV23
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Early stage Investor @Z47_vc. Startups + India Edge Believer, Wildlife enthusiast, have to: cycling/basketball https://t.co/nRAaIov0g9
Bengaluru, India
Joined December 2008
Releasing the full video from our Future of InsurTech event and my conversation with #AnupBagchi (ICICI Prudential) and @Ankit_agrawal29 (InsuranceDekho). Tackled some interesting themes: • Penetration isn’t the real gap, credit-linked protection works. The real question
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3/ Grateful to everyone who showed up and shaped the day @DeVC_Global @RTinkslinger @Rahul_J_Mathur
@dybydt @miten @VikramV23
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Less than 24 hrs to go! 🚨 70+ Startups and 150+ investors converge for a day of networking and deal making dedicated to the buzzing early stage ecosystem! Gameplan 2026 by @DeVC_Global LFG! 🚀 @Rahul_J_Mathur @RajatAgarwal167 @VikramV23 @miten @dvbydt
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The missing piece in India's early stage ecosystem is going live next week - GamePlan 2026 will connect the best pre-seed funded startups (70+) with follow-on investors (150+) creating an efficient and win-win process for both. All these startups are curated from the portfolios
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In this episode of Zero to Infinity, @RajatAgarwal167 and @chander1987 sit down with @viveksinhaisb, second-time founder and CEO of @emversity, to unpack one of India’s most urgent and least-discussed problems: 👉 Why are millions of young Indians still unemployable after 16
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1/ India produces millions of graduates, yet companies still can’t find job-ready talent. The issue isn’t unemployment. It’s employability. Universities haven’t kept pace: outdated curriculum and little real-world training
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GamePlan began with a simple belief: seed stage companies across the ecosystem deserve an open-architecture platform where founders, operators, and investors can connect meaningfully. This is backed by a community - founder-angels, operators, and VC partners - who share this
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1/6 70% of enterprise AI projects never make it to production says MIT. Enterprise AI still contributes under 10% of total AI revenue. There’s a big gap between POC and production scale. Are Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) the answer?
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6/6 @srikrishnang founder of @RocketlaneHQ and I unpacked all of this: the origins, the risks, the guardrails, and the India opportunity, on the latest episode of Zero to Infinity 🎧Link to full video:
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5/6 Can FDEs be the answer for all AI companies? When do they work, when do they not? When do you need consultants and when engineers? And is hiring the perfect FDE like trying to find a unicorn?
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4/6 And this is where India potentially has a real edge: deep engineering talent, English fluency, decades of services + implementation muscle, and a track record of helping the world scale cloud, mobile, and SaaS.
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3/6 That model evolved through teams like Ramp and is now the frontline GTM muscle for many AI companies today, proving value in days instead of quarters.
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2/6 FDEs were first pioneered by Palantir: high-EQ problem solvers and engineers who focus on solutions and solve the messy workflows that make a product actually work in the real world.
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1/6 70% of enterprise AI projects never make it to production says MIT. Enterprise AI still contributes under 10% of total AI revenue. There’s a big gap between POC and production scale. Are Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) the answer?
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Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/vOvZM5JccJ
@avnish | @VikramV23 | @Anish_Pats | @_dhairen_ 2/2
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Atomicwork + @Lansweeper are joining forces to bring complete visibility and living context to enterprise IT! Lansweeper strengthens Atomicwork’s Universal Context with powerful asset discovery capabilities that bring every device, application, and endpoint into view, ensuring
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Started the day with 100+ CTOs and AI builders coming together for our CTO workshop with @OpenAI . Wulfie, Nikunj, and Thomas walked us through implementation patterns and best practices with Agent Builder, GPT-5 and the Realtime API.
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5/5 If today’s energy was any signal, the next breakout AI products will be built right here 🇮🇳 @z47_vc | @desai_pranay | @avnish | Ashwin | Rahul
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4/5 So while others debate missing the foundational model wave — we’re excited about the future for India's AI talent landscape and energized by the day. Big thanks to the OpenAI team: Wulfie, Nikunj, and Thomas, for going deep with India’s builders today.
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3/5 → Capital + infra catching up ($20B+ committed this year alone); India-first inferencing solutions are need of the hour → India edge shows up in the last mile delivering real RoI in the app layer (native workflows, solving messy plumbing, humans in the loop, FDEs)
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