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Daily coverage of Indian tech at @runtimebrt • 1M+ subs on YT at @bwmillionaires
Bengaluru, India
Joined June 2020
going live with Arjun S at 11:00 AM over at.@RuntimeBRT. apart from Metaforms’ $9M Series A, we’ll discuss:. - Maruti drones.- CoinDCX employee arrest.- LAT’s (@lataerospace) engine.- Astra AI shutting down.- STAN (@getstanapp) $8.5M round.- Kombai's (@Kombaico) FE agent launch
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and it just so happens that we recorded this livestream at Lossfunk, next to Indiranagar's extremely noisy 100 Feet Road. thanks for being my co-host for a day @suryamaddula_, hopefully next time we can do it with open-air ANC!.
At the age of 18, Surya Maddula (@suryamaddula_) is building the future of noise cancellation with his startup Whisperwave. Instead of cancelling noise in or over your ears, Surya's patented tech offers something nobody has ever experienced before: open-air noise cancellation.
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after the stream Nikhil revealed that many of the topics covered were public firsts e.g. how they're deploying the $1.5M that they've raised. also, apparently Mumbai Gullies' map is fully built now!. had fun during this chat, thanks @nikmlnkr for co-hosting Runtime with me today.
GameEon Studios released the trailer for Mumbai Gullies on the 15th of January, 2021. 4+ years later, Nikhil Malankar shares how the game is shaping up and what he has learned while building a game development startup in India.
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going live with Nikhil Malankar at 11:00 AM over at.@RuntimeBRT. apart from Mumbai Gullies, we'll discuss:. - the successful launch of NISAR.- Infosys hiring 20,000 people.- IndicSynth won at ACL 2025.- Kalam Labs' kamikaze drone.- Ather is part of ‘Build in Bharat’. tune in!
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this Indian startup is launching kamikaze drones (self-destructing) from the troposphere. fully autonomous too. post deployment there's no ground control.
Enemies of India — your ‘Kaal’ now watches from the edge of space. Kalam Labs has demonstrated its Stratospheric Kamikaze UAV to the Indian Army at HQ Artillery, Devlali (Nashik) —. ▪️ Test deployment from 33,000 ft.▪️ >100 km range, 1 kg explosive payload.▪️ GPS-denied,
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cool to see an Indian hardware startup getting the jump on American tech. Dhananjay and Aryan shipped this earlier this year, it's called Neo 1.
shipped!.
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probably the most 'India for the world' moment I've ever witnessed 🇮🇳🤍. satellite bus, S-band aperture radar, and rocket all from India. satellite assembled in India too. launched from Andhra Pradesh. all data from NISAR will be FREELY available 1-2 days post observation.
🚨 ISRO successfully launched NISAR satellite in partnership with NASA onboard GSLV-F16. 🇮🇳🇺🇸
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going live with Surya Maddula at 11:15 AM over at.@RuntimeBRT. apart from Surya's open-air noise cancelation device, Whisperwave, we'll discuss:. - The Claude Max maxer who burned $80k in credits.- Stardour's hydrogen-oxygen propulsion engine.- CoinDCX's path forward.- JioPC
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after using NeoSapien's Neo 1 for a couple of weeks, I can confidently say that it's one of the coolest gadgets in my arsenal. apart from saving conversations, it's excellent for transcribing long self-recorded voice memos. there's also no monthly subscription.
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going live with Dhananjay Yadav at 11:15 AM over at @RuntimeBRT. apart from NeoSapien we'll discuss:. - Krutrim firing 100 employees (6 months after hiring).- IIT Indore research paper drama.- Observv (autonomous aircraft).- EyeROV (underwater drones).- Delhi gamifying snitching
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look what finally came in the mail. now that I'm back in Bengaluru, I regularly bump into people who started watching BwM when they were in college (sometimes even high school!) and now they're building their own startup. those conversations are why I do this
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homeless in 3 days. let's see if I can speedrun finding a place in indiranagar
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as someone with a infant son (and another baby on the way), clean air is incredibly important to me. I don't want my kids to have asthma, bronchitis, or reduced cognitive function. feeling grateful that there are builders like Abhinav here in India who are working to solve this.
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made-in-India AI guns, quantum computer drama in South India, and the TCS layoffs. here's everything that happened over the weekend in Indian tech, ft. @abhinavguptaIAQ.
Here's everything that happened in Indian tech over the weekend:. - Adani Defence and Aerospace unveiled Arad, India's first AI-equipped assault rifle.- Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka had an X dispute over whose quantum computer came first.- TCS is laying off 12,000 people
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going live at 11 AM IST with @abhinavguptaIAQ, founder of Breethr, a startup building the AC of the future. also on the agenda during the livestream:. - India's new AI-powered assault rifle.- The quantum computer dispute between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.- The TCS layoffs
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who in Bengaluru is the right person to do an IRL live with tomorrow (11 AM) to talk about the TCS layoffs + future of India's AI industry?.
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most people think you need data centres with thousands of GPUs to run AI models. turns out, you can actually run them offline on your smartphone. Indian AI startup @NimbleEdgeInc is making that happen with the goal of putting AI into the hands of 1B+ Indians 🇮🇳.
AI is changing the world but most Indians still haven't used it. That's the problem NimbleEdge is trying to solve. By taking AI out of the cloud and enabling it to be run offline on people's mobile devices, Neeraj Poddar (@nrjpoddar) wanted to make AI accessible to 1B+ Indians.
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this week in Indian tech:. sarvam powered by google.soket powered by google.gnani powered by google.vizag powered by google.indic languages powered by google (in collab with IIT bombay's bharatgen).
Here's everything that happened in Indian tech in the last 24 hours:. - Google is building its largest data centre outside the US in Visakhapatnam.- Gemini 2.5 Flash will be processed locally in India.- Enterprise AI infra startup Kluisz AI raised a massive $9.6M seed round.-
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