Here's why India's top merchants trust #Paytm "We have been using Paytm since inception as our payments platform & have utmost faith on the company's uninterrupted services," they say! Watch here: #PaytmKaro #DigitalIndia

Announcing @inukacapital as an Investment Partner for Conquest ‘23 🚀 Inuka Capital is a pre-seed and seed focused firm that partners with founders in India. Inuka's investment focus is companies that rely on product-led growth and product mechanics to build competitive

Just started Dahad and heard of Jhunjhunu as part of the narrative. The only thing I could think of was @sumitkgupta7 and Apnibus, our portfolio company :) Weird how worlds collide.

Lunch with our friends in Delhi. And the “new mobility” founders sitting together: ✈️ @iamadityaghosh Aditya Ghosh (@AkasaAir @IndiGo6E) ⚡️ 🚙 @BluSmartGoyal Punit Goyal (@BluSmartIndia) 🚌 @sumitkgupta7 Sumit Gupta (Apnibus)

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I was calling up a few customers of a company which caters to an audience in T2/3 India. One gentleman asked me "Aap Shark Tank se ho?" 😅

Nice piece by the amazing @sarthakgh covering the story of Apnibus. Why 30 mm Indians suffer broken travel DAILY Why less than 5% of buses are digitized Why the founders ran buses / worked as conductors to understand the pain @AntlerIndia @sumitkgupta7 https://t.co/AfEmKYjHTB

My fave thing abt @sumitkgupta7 who runs Apnibus is his clarity and intensity. @sarthakgh has been able to capture that intensity in his piece on Sumit's vision for Apnibus: https://t.co/XuhvswRmqW Do read. Disc: @AntlerIndia portfolio co.

.@sumitkgupta7 unpacks the journey of building ApniBus and transforming the intercity travel experience for 30 million Indians. @sarthakgh https://t.co/OvopWx9hsO

We are excited to back Sumit, Ravi, and the ApniBus team from day zero of their journey transforming intercity travel for the next 400M Bharat travelers. @sumitkgupta7 @ravi_yadav https://t.co/Dv6xTuLzHa

An interesting perspective on bifurcation in internet behaviors and innovation activity in tier 1 cities versus tier 2 & 3 cities pre and post-introduction of Reliance's Jio in 2015-16 in India

"In smaller cities of India, unlike tier 1 cities, intercity buses are the only option for people to travel from one city to another. ...despite all the technological innovation in India, bus travel today remains the same as it used to be 50 years back."

🚨 [New on Scatter Brain] “My older brother told me, boss, you ran a tech company, and now you are talking about running buses, are you alright?” I talked to @sumitkgupta7 https://t.co/l2yjPjQgkt

(6/6) With a high repeat % for travelers + high engagement from operators, Apnibus is already creating significant on-ground impact. Welcome to the @AntlerGlobal family! @telljeeves @Vineet_Agarwal_ @_duxfemina_ @SusmitPat @MagnusGrimeland @FridtjofBerge @vegardmedbo

(5/6) 7 months in, they have scaled to 15+ cities, 350 routes, 1000 destinations. And seen 1 million POS transactions! Excited to have @GoodwaterCap, @niraj001s (founder, @myspinny) & @AsishMohapatra1 (founder, @ofbusiness_com) join us as backers. https://t.co/20MizdstFe

(4/6) Apnibus is solving the hard problem of “digitising the stack” leading to a 10x experience for travellers & operators. With deep experience at mobility startups (YellowPedal, WheelsEye, Droom, TaxiforSure), there isn’t a better team than Sumit+Ravi+Sunny to go after this

(3/6) This 🇮🇳 customer has embraced digital experiences: from UPI to Amazon... …but when it comes to essential bus travel, their experience is still poor: no reserved seats, no location tracking, unreliable schedules, touts and fraud.. since 95% of buses are NOT digitized!!

(2/6) Every day, ~30 million Indians travel inter-city via buses. If you’re booking AC sleeper bus tickets from Bangalore to Chennai via an OTA, your experience today is 10x better than it used to be. But this is not the case if you’re traveling from Jhunjhunu to Alwar!

(1/6) 🚨 New Investment: APNIBUS Today, one of our most exciting investments at @AntlerIndia - Apnibus - is coming out of stealth mode, aiming to create the next big travel & mobility platform for mass India. https://t.co/yzZxEccVat

Now US will go at length to prove China did this intentionally. Then create global consensus against China? Agree or Disagree? Check out: https://t.co/ze9NxL4LzB https://t.co/aCBlaWwCC8