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Pushpak Kedia
@pushpakkedia
seed investing
Bengaluru, IndiaJoined June 2009

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Super cool to see our NLP models working irl - helping customer facing teams be alerted of outstanding customer queries on Slack and being able to get back in a more timely manner. In Bay Area briefly, would love to hit up teams who are struggling with noise and chaos on Slack
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underrated element of venture/tech is how it changes the scale of your thinking + what feels possible. you see how much money there is out there and your sense of ‘big outcomes’ expands enormously (most people just don’t think in terms of millions and billions on a daily basis)
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The future will belong to folks who can build/deploy AI faster, which is why we chose to invest in and invite them to because of the dramatic productivity gains they give all AI teams, often going from one model a month to several model deploys in a day!
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(1/n) A truly remarkable day for all of us at TrueFoundry as we announce our Seed #Funding round of $2.3m. Read about it 👇 techcrunch.com/2022/09/19/met
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1/ Today we are excited to announce the launch of Pathfinders, @Sequoia_India's platform to connect portfolio companies who have ambitions to compete in global markets with the very best operators to give these companies a leg up
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Rattle is a game changer for sales teams. If you’re a B2B SaaS company, you have to give it a spin.
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Excited to launch Rattle for Startups! 💥 For all startups who use Salesforce as their CRM and Slack or Teams as the internal communication system, you can now get started with @goRattle for FREE!
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No floor, up to $3m. We are doubling down on our commitment to early stage teams! There's never been a better time to build :) can't wait to hear from you all!
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We’re raising the ceiling and removing the floor on Surge. No longer $1-2M. If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you! surgeahead.com/surge-extends- Thread 🧵 👇🏼
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Indian merchants are looking beyond borders now more than ever before - Payglocal led by , Rohit, Yogesh & Ruby are empowering them with the right infra to compete on this global stage. Excited to be early partners in this journey. Onwards & upwards!🚀@Sequoia_India
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1 yr old PayGlocal led by @DharaniPrachi, Rohit, Yogesh and Ruby is on fire in their quest to transform cross border payments. We @Sequoia_India are happy to provide more fuel with Tiger Global, @amrishrau @guptajiten @VQIndex. @NavenduS @ParvathiNair96 economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/c
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Pumped to double down with as they build India’s leading esports destination. Esports is a whole new paradigm, which will need its own native primitives. @Sequoia_India
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Super excited to partner with @FanClash_gg focused on building for the 100million e-sports enthusiasts in India. $40m series B. Lets GO! @Sequoia_India @pushpakkedia twitter.com/FanClash_gg/st…
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No better time to reiterate our mission: "We help the daring build legendary companies, from Idea to IPO and beyond"
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1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region. sequoiacap.com/india/article/
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Ground-breaking work done by the sec-research team at . Misconfigurations are a leading cause of data leakages, its great to see the team lead the charge on finding/fixing these open instances. good read cc
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PingSafe’s security research team recently discovered an elastic search instance exposed to the internet without authentication. By the time the database was secured, it had already grown more than fivefold. Read more here techcrunch.com/2022/05/27/vot #cloudsecurity #cybersecurity
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Most important need of creators: monetize. We are super excited to double down on our seed investment (at pre-launch) in and excited to deepen our partnership with & . @Sequoia_India
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On a mission to build a go-to platform for influencers, @rigi_app is helping them manage & monetise their communities so that they can focus on what they do best. Create content! 🚀200k users in 6 mos since the launch. @SwapnilSaurav1 @ananyasinghal 🙌🏼 moneycontrol.com/news/business/
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Boom! Thrilled to deepen our partnership with - reimagining what it means to build a creator centric internet platform. Absolute joy to work with and @Sequoia_India
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Happy to announce that we have raised $10 million in Series A funding. Thanks to all supporters for believing in our vision. 🙌 Welcome aboard! 🚀 @Sequoia_India @Accel_India @Stellaris_VP @firstcheque @TitanCapitalVC @thetanmay @harshubh #rigiapp #creatoreconomy #startups
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Two founder friends called in the last 10 mins. Both had incoming investors asking for senior liq pref. Founders - this is highly unusual. Standard liq pref, for a decade, is 1x non-participating pari passu. Push back on onerous terms.
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Sales teams hate updating CRM & CRM hygiene has been a perennial problem. No more. Say hello to - finally sales tech that is truly loved by sellers! Congratulations on the $26m series A to , , @Sequoia_India
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A 75% reduction in lead response time, 8 hr/month time saved for the operations team, a 5 fold increase in deal performance & forecasting. That's what @goRattle has done for businesses. Congrats on the Series A @milansync, @apoorvaverma2, @saheelaggarwal🙌 forbes.com/sites/davidpro
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Pumped to partner with and to help build ! Whatsapp is a whole new paradigm for merchants to engage with customers And what Klaviyo did with email and Attentive did with SMS, Bitespeed will do with Whatsapp :) LFG! @ prasanna
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Some news :). We've raised $1.9M @BiteSpeedHQ led by @Sequoia_India's @_surgeahead & angels like @kunalb11 @ankurnagpal @harsh88shah @shankmurali @navydish to build the conversational commerce stack for e-commerce brands. inc42.com/buzz/d2c-enabl More on the journey & plans👇
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