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From our PearX S25 cohort, meet Pravāh, the AI-native operating system for the electric grid When Mohak Mangal, Dhruv Suri, and Aman Gupta looked at the strain on the U.S. electric grid, they saw a system pushed to its limits. Exploding demand and unpredictable supply have made blackouts increasingly common. This costs the economy more than $150B a year, a number that could 10x in the next five years. Mohak Mangal and team founded Pravāh to help fix it. Their platform helps utilities and grid operators make real-time decisions on load, generation, and congestion, reducing blackout risks, optimizing power procurement, and bringing much-needed stability to the backbone of modern life. We’re proud to support the Pravāh team as they take on one of the toughest and most important infrastructure challenges of our time.

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We’re excited to announce a MOU with Synoriq, a Jaipur-based SaaS Provider, to integrate their cutting-edge LOS and LMS solutions. Led by Co-Founder Mr. Mudit, Synoriq is advancing AI/ML-driven enhancements to boost Shfin users and customer experiences. This partnership will deliver Shfin a seamless digital processes including underwriting through API-led workflows and score-based underwriting, enabling faster decisions and improved TAT for our users and customers. Looking forward to a game-changing collaboration and the value it will bring to our underwriting and loan lifecycle processes.

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What a joy to speak with this brilliant cohort of innovators in the The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) ENTICE (Energy Transitions Innovation Challenge) 2.0 program and taking on their sharp questions at the investor bootcamp. 80% of global GHG emission reduction goals for 2050 can be met through energy system decarbonization, efficiency and electrification. This represents a US $100 trillion opportunity according to the IEA.     A stronger, more stable grid is at the heart of building a #resilient #energy future. This year’s program challenges innovators to tackle:  1) Behind-the-meter digital twins: #AI tools to analyse consumption and create appliance-level insights  2) Industrial flexibility at scale: AI solutions using smart meter data to identify flexible assets and operational inefficiencies    Kudos to the entrepreneurs and the GEAPP team for curating and executing such a thoughtful program.     Looking forward to seeing how these #innovations scale #impact.  Synapses Dalberg Media Vaishali (Vish) Mishra Anukul Tripathi (He/Him) Jayant Sinha Saurabh Kumar

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Our investment in ThirdAI Automation Inc reflects a clear thesis: AI must drive measurable productivity in complex, high-value environments. Semiconductor and advanced manufacturing systems generate enormous data, yet root-cause diagnosis remains slow and expertise-dependent. ThirdAI deploys causal AI directly at the equipment layer - reducing downtime, improving yield, and embedding institutional intelligence into operations. It is operational leverage. Applied AI only matters when it compounds economic value. ThirdAI is building in that direction. #AppliedAI #IndustrialAI #DeepTech #VentureCapital Capria Ventures Ankur Dubey Will Poole Surya Mantha Ravi Venkatesan Srikanth Iyer Entr. Madan Padaki

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We are excited to announce that Cognisys AI is officially partnering with RENVITEK ENGINEERS LLP to revolutionize bio-gas plant management. Under the leadership of Dr.Srinivas Varma Jukuri, Renvitek is making significant strides in renewable energy. We are honored to support their vision by developing an intelligent Bio-gas Plant Digestor Monitoring platform. This application will automate complex biological calculations and provide real-time reporting, ensuring peak efficiency for sustainable energy production. By combining our expertise in intelligent systems with Renvitek’s leadership in sustainable energy, we are taking a significant step toward optimizing renewable energy production. The future of green tech is digital, and we can’t wait to see the impact of this project. #AI #GreenTech #Sustainability #Innovation #CognisysAI #Renvitek #RenewableEnergy #TechForGood

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Here is a framework for nations to work with revolutions such as #AI and #Quantum. First you have your people learn, then dabble and become early/late adopters (hopefully not laggards!), then become effective technical users and finally value creators. It is only then that the economy benefits from your investment, and you create sustainable job growth. While #India is a key market for #Quantum with millions thirsting to learn and actually do things with this technology, there are still large gaps between: 1. Where Quantum Computing is today Vs where it needs to be for mass adoption [Quantum Sensing on the other hand is ready for prime time and GPS compromising incidents are only increasing] 2. The specialist work being done Vs the ability to hire millions of generalists 3. What it costs to tap into the technology Vs perception of what it should cost as a commodity 4. The talent it takes to produce world class indigenous technology Vs the talent that actually exists on the ground 5... Each of these gaps will close over time. In the lead-up and as a first step, India first needs to learn enough about this technology, ideally from the very best, and spread awareness. The starting point of this journey should ideally not be from dull videos or low quality social media content, but from hands-on practical learning that is delivered through high quality polished content. Such practical training effectively complements all the theoretical content you learn in universities. Q-CTRL's Black Opal product is the world's leading interactive learning tool that gives you just enough fundamentals (think 101) required to program a quantum computer. With over 28,000 users worldwide and success across the UK (Tamil Nadu adopted it last year as part of the naanmudhalvan program). And now, we have expanded our presence in India through a network of local resellers. We encourage Indian companies, governments and universities to work with us either directly or through our contacts. https://lnkd.in/gjJWHYB3 We also look forward to aligning with AICTE standards and to make our content even more relevant to India. Waseem Shiraz, Shobhit Gupta, Nagendra Nagaraja, Reena Dayal, Anil Prabhakar, Kamakoti Veezhinathan, Ajai Chowdhry, Harshan Budke, Sunil Gupta, Arindam Ghosh, Ravi Puvvala Dr M Jayaprakasan, ISDS., National Skill Development Corporation, MindTech, Kquanta Research, RV College Of Engineering, Sanjay Chittore, Uttkrist Innovations Private Limited, Subu Gupta, AICTE QRDLab - Quantum Computing in India, IBM DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India, Ashutosh Sharma, Urbasi Sinha, Bloq Quantum LTIMindtree, Tata Consultancy Services Abhay Karandikar, NPTEL, National Quantum Mission, Eltech, Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Academy ITE and C Department Government of AP, Jayesh Ranjan, CDAC Bangalore, Kaushalya The skill University

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Happy new year! with our Investment no: 12💪🎉🎉👏👏 AI chips today do not fail because of lack of compute. They fail because they cannot breathe. Delighted to share that we have invested in Sidix, a fabless semiconductor startup building chip scale fully silicon cooling solutions, based out of Odisha. As power density on chips has gone vertical, cooling has quietly become the limiting factor. Compute can scale. Transistors can scale. But heat removal has not kept pace. Sidix is attacking this problem at the chip surface itself using a beautifully engineered silicon native MEMS approach to solid state cooling. This is first principles engineering at work. Micromachined silicon actuators that enable airflow generation and heat removal exactly where it matters. The result is meaningfully higher output per unit area, better efficiency, and the ability to run advanced CPUs GPUs memories and transceivers at lower temperatures with higher reliability. This is not just a better thermal solution. It has direct P & L impact across data centres and electronics systems globally. We love Sidix for how we like to invest a99 VC . Deep manufacturing led innovation. Serious MEMS pedigree. Global relevance from day one. And a team that understands both physics and markets. Excited to partner with Arun Rambhatla , Siavash Pourkamali , and the Sidix team as they help the industrial century run a little cooler. This also marks our third investment from the rapidly emerging Odisha manufacturing and deep tech ecosystem. The map is widening and the depth is getting real. Thanks to the boss Asha Venugopal and the boss’s lady Varsha Shivaraj for getting this deal done despite the bumps! Let the cool waves begin!

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We at SIERRA Ventures are thrilled to lead the $8M Seed round in smallest.ai! We feel honored to partner with Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi as they build an important company in the Voice AI space. We’ve now entered a new era. Voice AI agents are no longer research projects or demos - they’re deployed in production. Whether it’s buying or selling a house, scheduling a doctor’s appointment, or returning a purchase, there’s a growing chance you’ve already interacted with an AI voice agent without realizing it. Why Smallest AI: 💡 Team: Sudarshan and Akshat are customer-obsessed technical founders who understand what enterprises truly need.. agents that are fast, secure, and production-ready. 💡 Industry leading performance: The company has some of the fastest, highest-quality voice AI models in the world (Lightning Text to Speech) that outperform Elevenlabs, Cartesia across all parameters. Their SLM Electron outperforms GPT 4.1 Mini in both quality and latency for real-time conversational use cases. 💡 Integrated Voice stack:  Delivering a natural voice interaction requires a complex workflow under the hood integrating components like ASR, models, TTS. By optimizing every step in the loop, from low-latency TTS to contextually coherent responses, they are helping to deliver real-time, human-like conversational AI that sets a new benchmark for performance. 💡 Small models, big impact: Nvidia recently published a research paper - "Small models are the future of agentic AI". Smallest AI builds the high-accuracy models that customers can run at the edge consuming little power. 💡 Happy customers: customers consistently told us how much they enjoyed working with the team. For anyone building enterprise voice AI agents, please reach out and we'll be happy to connect you with the team! #voiceAI #ai #tts #asr #slm

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This article, co-authored by Vardaan Ahluwalia and me lays out India's significant new Research Development and Innovation Fund initiative in the context of other successful interventions: when governments and the private sector work together, they can make a transformative difference to deep technology entrepreneurship. Equally, initiatives to help manage financial risk should be followed by structural reforms in areas ranging from intellectual property regulation, ease of clearances for start-ups, tax rationalization in capital gains and options that helps start-ups attract talent, and a visa regime that attracts leading global researchers. https://lnkd.in/gk92YSZa

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