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Pawan K Goenka @GoenkaPk

Genuinely big day for India's private space sector. SpaceX's Transporter 18 is carrying two Indian satellites and an Indian hosted payload into orbit, all authorised by IN-SPACe. Among them, @satleolabs TAPAS-1, India's first commercial thermal imaging payload built by a private company. Thermal sensing picks up what ordinary optical cameras cannot, from crop stress to forest fires to urban heat. A new layer of Earth intelligence, now opened up by Indian industry. Alongside it, @tm2space's MOI-1A brings AI computing to orbit, running models on the satellite itself, and @DhruvaSpace's LEAP-2 flies four payloads, demonstrating its platform for hosting others in space. Orbital computing, thermal intelligence, and a homegrown hosting platform, all on a single flight. This is the range and ambition of India's private space ecosystem today. Congratulations to all three teams. Wishing you a clean deployment and a long innings in orbit. @isro @INSPACeIND @PMOIndia

ETtech @ETtech

The debut follows strong demand for Rentomojo’s Rs 1,256 crore initial public offering (IPO), which was subscribed 72.87 times. Read the full story from @TanishkaDubey2 here👇

Karthik Prabhakar 🇮🇳 @KarthikPrabhakr

@ChirataeVC turns 20 today - a remarkable milestone for an institution that shaped the Indian venture ecosystem, and one that fundamentally shaped my entire VC career. I spent ~12 formative years at Chiratae, joining as a summer intern in 2010 and leaving in 2022 with the conviction and wings to start @PeerCapital_VC. Looking back, breaking into venture was serendipity meeting conviction. Back in 2010, when most of my IIMB batch was chasing traditional post-MBA tracks (rightfully so) with zero interest in this obscure domain called VC, @banglani took a bet on me. He wasn’t looking for someone chasing a standard placement slot; he was looking for raw curiosity and a genuine hunger to explore. When the internship wrapped, what Sudhir valued most were simple, unteachable traits: agency, hustle, and the comfort to operate in fuzzy logic. That landed me a full-time seat at the table. What followed was a masterclass in venture building under @sudhirksethi and @tcmsundaram. Chiratae gave me the ultimate launchpad to learn the craft on the ground: ▪️ True founder advocacy: Standing in the arena with founders and fiercely backing them, even when they aren’t in the room ▪️ Mastering uncertainty: Developing high conviction when data is sparse and the future is ambiguous ▪️ The full-cycle VC playbook: From initial deal structuring to portfolio heavy-lifting, engineering exits, unlocking new domestic and global capital pools, and building a durable firm VC firms are easy to start, but building an enduring institution across two decades of market cycles is rare. Huge congratulations to Sudhir, TCM, and the entire Chiratae team on 20 incredible years. I count myself deeply privileged to have shared that journey for over a decade - and as we build PeerCapital into an institution of repute, those foundational lessons continue to guide the way.

Chiratae Ventures @ChirataeVC

Twenty years. But the story was never really about the years. It was about the entrepreneurs who saw opportunities before they were obvious, built categories before they existed, and kept building when the outcome was far from certain. Over the last two decades, Chiratae has had the privilege of backing founders across SaaS, e-commerce, fintech, consumer internet, healthcare, deeptech, spacetech and more—each building ahead of the curve and, in many cases, helping shape the categories that followed. As Chiratae turns 20, we start where the story really belongs: with the companies and entrepreneurs who shaped the journey. 𝟐𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫 #chiratae20 #backingtheaudaciousentrepreneur