Sumanth Raghavendra
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Building the world’s most loved presentation app Co-founder and CEO, https://t.co/RiZ0evPSvy
Bangalore
Joined July 2008
1/9 🚀 Want to hear a story about the fastest growing productivity app of all time? .1 million users in 84 days. That's 2x faster than any productivity app in history. But here's the kicker: we did it with $0 in marketing. Our secret? We killed PowerPoint's biggest pain point.
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SPRY has built AI agents that hit 90% healthcare claim acceptance. $100M processed in 18 months. The edge? India's 20-year back-office experience in US healthcare became front-office AI advantage. Every messy workflow you understand deeply is an AI opportunity waiting to happen.
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Browsers don't just display websites, they decide which reality users inhabit. When AI companies control the interface, they control which facts become truth. Read why AI companies are executing Silicon Valley's oldest playbook:
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How OpenAI and Perplexity Are Executing Silicon Valley's Oldest Playbook The browser wars ended twenty years ago. Google won.
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The browser wars ended twenty years ago. Google won. Guess what? They're starting again. This time, OpenAI and Perplexity are not just building browsers because they love that market space. The battle is for the operating system for human attention.
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This is the endgame of AI-powered expansion, and here’s what it means for everyone trying to survive in the maze.
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We are witnessing the most brutal competitive era in tech history unfold in real time. In the last fifty days, we've observed every major platform transform into a digital Pac-Man, systematically...
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The AI Pac-Man Hunger Games. We are witnessing the most brutal competitive era in tech history unfold in real time. We are seeing every major platform transform into a digital Pac-Man, systematically consuming every adjacent market they can reach.
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Ben Horowitz once said: "Nobody cares.". And perhaps that's the most honest thing anyone in Silicon Valley has said in years. Software is eating the world's homework. And we're not just funding it. We're cheering it on. Read the full post below 👇.
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What Cluely, Soham Parekh, a16z, and the Infamy Playbook Reveal About the AI Era Marc Andreessen once promised that software would eat the world. His eponymous VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z),...
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When "momentum is the moat" becomes venture capital orthodoxy, product doesn't matter. Ethics don't matter. The homework doesn't matter. What matters is capturing attention now to justify existence tomorrow.
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We're witnessing a "homework recession" - here the unglamorous work of verifying competence is being automated away faster than it can be rebuilt. Education scales linearly. Deception scales exponentially.
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Meet Cluely - a startup that raised $15M from a16z to help people "cheat on everything.". But this isn't just about one controversial startup. It's about the systematic dismantling of verification infrastructure that keeps society functional.
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Marc Andreessen promised "software would eat the world.". His VC firm just funded something more corrosive: software that eats the world's homework. Eating trust as the aperitif.
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Wonderful to see a rituals app raise $52m in funding - AI and deep tech startups in India can go jump off a cliff (preferably near a holy place). We get the VCs we deserve.
Largest funding in devotional space. Sri Mandir-parent AppsForBharat raises $20 Mn in Series C. ◾️Funding to date: $52 Mn.◾️Investors: Susquehanna, Fundamentum, Elevation & Peak XV. The app lets users perform rituals, offer chadhava, get prasad & access devotional content online.
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The next wave of AI winners won't be about building the smartest models. It'll be about building the most useful value propositions. Zoca proves AI's most radical proposition might be its most practical: technology that simply works. Full analysis:
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Part of the Advantage India series: How Indian founders are building global AI solutions for underserved markets While Silicon Valley debates the metaphysics of AGI (artificial general intelligence),...
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Creating a new category:.Not another marketing tool, but "agent-led growth infrastructure.". To quip: "Just as Shopify empowered retail entrepreneurs, Zoca is becoming the growth OS for time-based businesses.". The future of software is agentic, vertical, outcome-first.
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The Zenoti playbook, evolved:. First-gen vertical SaaS like Zenoti proved Indian startups could dominate "boring" global markets. Zoca represents the next evolution: extending vertical SaaS into an AI-first environment. From management tools → autonomous agents that never sleep.
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Here's what makes their AI different:. - Hyperlocal intelligence detecting neighborhood search trends .- Optimization across AI search engines .- 24/7 lead response and real-time conversion .- Smart customer re-engagement. Built for the AI era of search.
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The results speak for themselves:. 1,000+ businesses onboarded in <1 year.120k+ bookings generated.$10M+ revenue driven for local entrepreneurs.Performance-based pricing (no bookings = no payment). Customer: "First 30 days, my business went from 3-4 people daily into a queue.".
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Zoca's radical approach: Zero dashboards. Most SaaS assumes users want control and analytics. Zoca assumed the opposite: A solo esthetician doesn't want to become a digital marketer. Their solution? . AI that delivers results, not tools that require training.
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Meet the underserved $750B market:. Local service businesses globally: salons, spas, wellness studios. These are skilled pros trusted by their communities, but forced to juggle complex tools or pay $5K+/month agencies just to fill books. Every empty chair = lost revenue forever.
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