Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw@kiranshaw

Science advances when talented people are given the environment to do their best work. Biocon is ranked No. 13 in the 2026 Science Careers Top Employers Survey, continuing 15 consecutive years among its Top 20.
Building a culture of respect, responsibility and shared purpose remains fundamental to building great science. https://medicaldialogues.in/news/industry/pharma/biocon-ranks-13th-among-worlds-top-20-biopharma-employers-in-science-magazines-2026-survey-182374

Startup India@startupindia

Startup India, DPIIT in collaboration with Cars24 invites India’s next generation of builders to participate in Cars24’s Grand Startup Challenge!

The challenge invites early stage startups to build solutions across four tracks:

* Lending & Fintech
* Mobility & Road Safety
* Logistics & Supply Chains
* Sovereign AI

A total prize pool of ₹1 Cr is up for grabs.

Applications opened on 9th October 2026 and close on 10 November 2026.

Finale: January 2027, New Delhi

Apply now: https://gsc.cars24.com/

In collaboration with Startup India, DPIIT, MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) and Startup Policy Forum.

@DPIITGoI

#GrandStartupChallenge #StartupIndia #DPIIT #SPF #AI #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Fintech #Mobility #RoadSafety #Logistics #SupplyChains #SovereignAI #IndianStartups

Rajan AnandanPeak XV Partners and Surge

India’s deep tech moment is clearly here.

A team at IIT Kanpur, advised by Dr Devi Shetty, is developing an artificial heart that could cost a seventh of the current price of the globally leading product.

Mayo Clinic’s Dr Lyle Joyce, who implanted the world’s first total artificial heart in a woman, called it the most promising LVAD project in the world.

This is what India’s lift-off looks like.

Saurabh Srivastava and I tell this story and many more in our book #TheLiftOffNation.

Chamath PalihapitiyaCEO, 8090 and Social Capital

He who shapes power, data centers, chips and models into an economically feasible endpoint, disproportionately shapes AI/SI right now.

Why?

Power is THE binding constraint in AI/SI. Few really have it.

Data centers don’t work without power. This is not about promises of power tomorrow. Or forecasted power in 2028. Power TODAY.

Chips can’t operate profitably unless installed in a functional data center. If you can install chips, it’s because you’ve solved the power problem.

Models aren’t economically viable unless run on cost effective infrastructure which requires a functional data center with low input costs and reliable management. This can’t happen without power.

AI/SI ROI doesn’t pencil unless models generate profitable outputs which necessarily needs functional data centers as the critical input. Again, power.

Ergo, he who can shape data centers, chips and models together into a tightly coordinated stack is someone who has solved power.

Solving power allows you to disproportionately shape AI/SI right now.

Vaibhav DomkundwarFounder, Better Capital

we are actively meeting with founders going after the ai-led marketplace opportunity. you are building for an establish TAM. you are delivering a 10x better experience for all participants. you are collapsing the incumbents economics. you changing the rules of the marketplace you got after, and owning the upside of that change.

easier said than done, of course, but this feels like a tangible opportunity to go after and AI is the “why now” – won’t apply to all marketplaces but to many.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw@kiranshaw

Science advances when talented people are given the environment to do their best work. Biocon is ranked No. 13 in the 2026 Science Careers Top Employers Survey, continuing 15 consecutive years among its Top 20.
Building a culture of respect, responsibility and shared purpose remains fundamental to building great science. https://medicaldialogues.in/news/industry/pharma/biocon-ranks-13th-among-worlds-top-20-biopharma-employers-in-science-magazines-2026-survey-182374

Startup India@startupindia

Startup India, DPIIT in collaboration with Cars24 invites India’s next generation of builders to participate in Cars24’s Grand Startup Challenge!

The challenge invites early stage startups to build solutions across four tracks:

* Lending & Fintech
* Mobility & Road Safety
* Logistics & Supply Chains
* Sovereign AI

A total prize pool of ₹1 Cr is up for grabs.

Applications opened on 9th October 2026 and close on 10 November 2026.

Finale: January 2027, New Delhi

Apply now: https://gsc.cars24.com/

In collaboration with Startup India, DPIIT, MeitY Startup Hub (MSH) and Startup Policy Forum.

@DPIITGoI

#GrandStartupChallenge #StartupIndia #DPIIT #SPF #AI #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #Fintech #Mobility #RoadSafety #Logistics #SupplyChains #SovereignAI #IndianStartups

Rajan AnandanPeak XV Partners and Surge

India’s deep tech moment is clearly here.

A team at IIT Kanpur, advised by Dr Devi Shetty, is developing an artificial heart that could cost a seventh of the current price of the globally leading product.

Mayo Clinic’s Dr Lyle Joyce, who implanted the world’s first total artificial heart in a woman, called it the most promising LVAD project in the world.

This is what India’s lift-off looks like.

Saurabh Srivastava and I tell this story and many more in our book #TheLiftOffNation.

Chamath PalihapitiyaCEO, 8090 and Social Capital

He who shapes power, data centers, chips and models into an economically feasible endpoint, disproportionately shapes AI/SI right now.

Why?

Power is THE binding constraint in AI/SI. Few really have it.

Data centers don’t work without power. This is not about promises of power tomorrow. Or forecasted power in 2028. Power TODAY.

Chips can’t operate profitably unless installed in a functional data center. If you can install chips, it’s because you’ve solved the power problem.

Models aren’t economically viable unless run on cost effective infrastructure which requires a functional data center with low input costs and reliable management. This can’t happen without power.

AI/SI ROI doesn’t pencil unless models generate profitable outputs which necessarily needs functional data centers as the critical input. Again, power.

Ergo, he who can shape data centers, chips and models together into a tightly coordinated stack is someone who has solved power.

Solving power allows you to disproportionately shape AI/SI right now.

Vaibhav DomkundwarFounder, Better Capital

we are actively meeting with founders going after the ai-led marketplace opportunity. you are building for an establish TAM. you are delivering a 10x better experience for all participants. you are collapsing the incumbents economics. you changing the rules of the marketplace you got after, and owning the upside of that change.

easier said than done, of course, but this feels like a tangible opportunity to go after and AI is the “why now” – won’t apply to all marketplaces but to many.