Anandamoy Roychowdhary @smdcmc Twitter profile

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

1 year

What 10+ years of building and investing at @SequoiaIndiaSEA ! It’s been a ride and a half let me tell you :)

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

GPT-3 definitely got everyone’s attention including us at @Sequoia_India and @_surgeahead :) please dm us if you’d like to join a small BOF session with us (and a select few CTOs) on what’s investable around the use of GPT-3. look forward to hearing your ideas !

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

8 months

Fanboi moment meeting #JensenHuang and continuing the @RajanAnandan debate on how we at @_surgeahead and @peakxvpartners build AI cos out of india ! Jensen also shared how #DonValentine (founder of @sequoia ) would send him news snippets with words of encouragement on them :)

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

11 months

We’ve been doing this together for a long long time already , and now to a new start to an exciting new phase !

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 months

if you havent read the book #Halflion by #VinaySetapati this is as good a time as any to see why this is a very well deserved award to one of the main architects of modern India. The story of this genius man going to an IBM conference and reporting bugs to their Cobol compiler is

Narendra Modi

@narendramodi

3 months

Delighted to share that our former Prime Minister, Shri PV Narasimha Rao Garu, will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna. As a distinguished scholar and statesman, Narasimha Rao Garu served India extensively in various capacities. He is equally remembered for the work he did as

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

11 months

Not even slightly worried that my boss is asking @sama and not me about this stuff ! But this tweet is going to be gold whenever we inevitably bring to IC several such india foundational model stories at @peakxvpartners ;)

Rajan Anandan

@RajanAnandan

11 months

Thank you @sama for the clear answer. As you said, "it is hopeless, but you will try anyway". 5000 years of Indian entrepreneurship has shown us that we should never underestimate the Indian entrepreneur. We do intend to try 🚀 @sama @OpenAI

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

you know what makes me happy about #india tech scene today? its that now, more often than not, when i interview a DOE/VP, they talk about the technology they build with great pride. 10 years ago it used to be all about team size and "impact". The change startups have wrought.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

When we pitched Ajey to join GoJek we promised him adventure. @AjeyGore responded by building several unicorns worth of software and infra in one company and putting the "group" in CTO to good use. Now i am excited to see him mentor the next set of CTOs for @Sequoia_India

Ajey Gore

@AjeyGore

4 years

I am excited to join the Sequoia India team. I’m excited to work with passionate founders to not only build amazing products – but also continue my mission of giving back to the community as I join them in architecting the tech stories of tomorrow. @singh_sequoia @Sequoia_India

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Getting WhatsApp back online is going to be an amazing feat of engineering , (“thundering herd” anybody )can’t wait to read how they actually get it done ! #hugops

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Such a good day to ride around lazily in #Singapore . The bike trails here are something else.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 months

This one is special ! @vivekrag wrote an email to me the day we announced our rebrand to @peakxvpartners , and having met @pratykumar earlier and looking to support their work in building language specific models and implications to how India uses AI to parlaying that into a

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

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Five-month-old Indian AI startup Sarvam scores $41 million funding by @refsrc

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

11 months

To all those folks who keep complaining that VC's in india do not fund deep-tech ... a semiconductor design firm that helps customers design custom silicon on RISC-V is deep-tech enough for you :) ? @peakxvpartners @_surgeahead @Sid_1_0 @TrivediVedant @aaditya

mohit bhatnagar

@mobhat

11 months

With the indomitable @incoresemi founders who dare to put @iitmadras and India on the world RISC-V semiconductors map @GoI_MeitY @peakxvpartners

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

9 months

this is what eventually pulled me back to india , and it still makes me wonder about the path not taken :)

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan @ ICRA 2024

@keerthanpg

9 months

The hardest part about being an immigrant is not the immigration system but having to choose between pursuing a world class career and seeing your parents grow old

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

i was ALREADY having a really good week and then IT upgraded my laptop to the new M1 macbook pro, and i feel like a new man. Insanely fast @AjeyGore get on this train ;)

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

I got into VC to work with the founders who want to put that fabled dent on the universe , so excited to be able to do that in person again at @_surgeahead surge06 :)

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

hard to beat @gvravishankar for belief and work ethic. his regular 530 am flights to meet a portfolio company every week for years on end is the stuff of legend :)

Ashish K. Mishra

@akm1410

4 years

This must be said. Is often missed. @MorningContext

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

An incredible world beating company that is defining what retail can do with AI and computer vision . Bearing witness to this journey has been one of the most satisfying of my professional life . Onwards and upwards to even bigger heights from here !

[Funding alert] Mad Street Den's Vue.ai raises $17M Series B funding led by Falcon Edge Capital

MadStreetDen, the AI startup has raised $17 million Series B funding led by Falcon Edge Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital India and Global Brain.

yourstory.com

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Packed house of Engineers on a weekend wanted to learn more , great conference idea and audience ! Kudos to @YourStoryCo for setting this up and for inviting me . So energised !

YourStory

@YourStoryCo

4 years

“Don't work just because you get paid or you like it, but work for a higher purpose,” says Anandamoy Roychowdhary ( @smdcmc ), CTO, Sequoia Capital ( @Sequoia_India ). #FoW2020

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

fundraising is all fine and dandy, but two different @_surgeahead cos that we backed pre-launch reported bookings of 100k USD+ for the month of feb with strong continuing acceleration and line of sight to a 1M/month. PMF just hits different ;)

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 months

This stuff was supposed to be impossible coming out of India and yet @SentinelOne just acquired @PingsafeAI as a strategic product offering. #India building products for the world just got a very interesting new level-up with this one. congratulations @anandpraka_sh

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@_surgeahead

4 months

Huge congrats to Surge 06’s @PingSafeAI , @anandpraka_sh & @MittalNishant7 on this incredible outcome! #IndiaToTheWorld 🚀

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

speechless. @deepigoyal continues to show us all how it is done.

Nayantara Rai

@NayantaraRai

2 years

Zomato founder @deepigoyal to donate Rs 700 Cr of vested ESOPs to Zomato Future Foundation. The money will be used to educate children of @zomato delivery partners. Details below 👇 What a great cause!!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

Arguably the greatest CTO that India has ever produced @amodm in conversation with @championswimmer at @scaler_official . learnt so much just from his tweets so you cant imagine what a pleasure this conversation is! this is a great series started by @asxna you should subscribe

Prateek Sharma

@2SharmaP

2 years

@scaler_official podcast is out - watch this space (& do share) for some wisdom shared by seasoned engineering leaders @smdcmc @AjeyGore @_surgeahead

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

Completed my first 10 10xE interviews for @_surgeahead and holy shit am I excited . The skillls , The self awareness, willingness to admit flaws and defeats and the thirst for bigger opportunities and wins seems immense . Can’t wait to see what the next 299 interviews bring !

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

11 months

Day zero baby yeah !!!!!!!

Peak XV Partners

@peakxvpartners

11 months

Sequoia India & Southeast Asia is now @peakxvpartners .

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

the international donations of @actgrants is now live,

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

4 months of shelter in place later, it does feel good to do old fashioned company building ( by which i mean @vivekramac works and i eat and nod wisely during @_surgeahead office hours :)

Vivek Ramachandran

@vivekramac

4 years

Great discussion with @smdcmc on Pentester Academy 's future! Super excited about our roadmap. Thanks Roy for all the support and encouragement! Learning so much! @_surgeahead

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

a profound comparison that works so well @gojektech @Sequoia_India

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@gandharva

5 years

When I’m in: Bangalore vs Jakarta

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

RE inflation in india is outta control. govinda's buying "swarg" for 90 lakhs.. i dont think you could buy his suit now in that much :P

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@BeingPractical

3 years

When a bootstrapped founder gets acquisition call from founder of recently super-funded unicorn.. 😂💰

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Quietly and with little fuss, founders @sourabhagr87 and @ManishJethani are building a revolutionary new SaaS product for the world, happy to partner with @venkypeddi and welcoming new partners @lachygroom and @peterjhuynh to help us all @_surgeahead :)

Hevo draws in $8 million Series A for its no-code data pipeline service | TechCrunch

According to data pipeline startup Hevo, many small to medium-sized companies juggle more than 40 different applications to manage sales, marketing,

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

A day to remember and celebrate .

President of India

@rashtrapatibhvn

4 years

I am delighted to inform you that for the first time ever in the history of the country, number of girls admitted in higher education has exceeded that of boys: President Kovind

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

1 year

We've spent the last 18 months on a particularly vexing question - is there an opportunity to build semiconductor design giants again? @Sid_1_0 @TrivediVedant and i penned our thoughts on behalf of @SequoiaIndiaSEA here :

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

so fricking proud of the hypergrowth engine that @saisrinivas and @shubhmalhotraa have created at @PlayMPL in 3 years, 3 geographies , latest being the US. world domination plan on schedule :) @Sequoia_India @singh_sequoia @2SharmaP

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@ETNOWlive

3 years

LIVE | With valuation jumping from $945 mn to $2.3 bn, @PlayMPL becomes the 27th unicorn of 2021!🦄 Here’s CEO & co-founder, @saisrinivas in conversation with @NayantaraRai @shubhmalhotraa @Sequoia_India

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

I’ve never had a customer acquisition conversation with @kunalb11 where he hasn’t blown my mind . This one is no different !

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@_surgeahead

5 years

Want to reduce your #customeracquisition cost? Think about how predators work in the wild. Find your customers’ “watering holes” and be there, waiting, with your product or service, says CRED founder & Surge mentor @kunalb11 . #GetReadyToSurge

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

8 years

Thoughts on the recently concluded Sequoia::Hack 2016 @Sequoia_India #seqhack #fortheloveofCode :

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

keeping it real is an under-statement :) . if they make a movie on @NaveenTiwari , i'll be queueing up for tickets.

Surge

@_surgeahead

5 years

“People think success is around the corner. It’s not. What’s in front of you is actually a turn, not a corner. The road keeps bending...and you need to keep going.” @NaveenTewari keeps it real. @InMobi #GetReadyToSurge

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

@xennygrimmato_ @YourStoryCo @Sequoia_India I want to help engineers build without fear , to aspire to greatness , to work with entrepreneurs who want to improve the world exponentially

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Exciting team additions here for us at @Sequoia_India ! Our portfolio service work has often been a "secret" weapon and founders have always been amazed at how much work/help we can provide. This just went up a few notches with these additions :)

Shailendra J Singh

@sjs_day1

4 years

We challenge founders to hire the best, most aspirational leaders who can raise their game. We're doing that to ourselves. Honored & humbled to welcome @GayatriPYadav as CMO, @AjeyGore as Operating Partner, Technology and @ShwetaRKohli as Head of Public Policy for @Sequoia_India

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

To do a job for this long and still take it so hard when it doesn’t work out is quite something . Passion and heart in full .

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@ANI

5 years

#WATCH PM Narendra Modi hugged and consoled ISRO Chief K Sivan after he(Sivan) broke down. #Chandrayaan2

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

@kunalb11 im going to fly a lot less. less covid anxiety and more to do with the fact that reducing flying as real observable health benefits.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

So proud of this event today, both for @Sequoia_India and for the 5 new MDs, and excited about what the future will bring for all of us :)

Peak XV Partners

@peakxvpartners

3 years

We are excited to welcome 5 new MD’s to our leadership team, a move that underscores our commitment to serve founders better across stages & sectors. Congrats @dvbydt , @HarshjitSethi , @Ishaanmittal2 , @i_sakshichopra and @tejeshwi_sharma on your promotions!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

1 year

#semiconductors for the win for India and India-based design firms , so excited to back some of the best and brightest from @_surgeahead and @SequoiaIndiaSEA

Digital India

@_DigitalIndia

1 year

Bangalore-Chennai-Hyderabad corridor is emerging as the new Silicon Valley with the rise of processor IP & chip design companies like @incoresemi & @MindgroveTech that have recently partnered with Sequoia India ( @sequoiaindiasea ), a firm known for its deep roots in US's Silicon

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

late night catch-up with a Surge 03 company , and its already processing 4TB of operational data within 6 months of writing its first line of code #GetreadytoSurge #2020isaccleratingeverything #lotsofnines @_surgeahead

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

@kunalb11 given that you could generate 1.2 crores a year from 20 crores from just an FD, why would anyone pick 6 lakhs per month?

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 months

I have been a huge fan of @DoubtnutApp and the team of @tanuaditya and #adityashankar who is one of my favorite CTOs in our @_surgeahead portfolio of all time. The product they built, the absolute technical prowess they showed in building a very classic Make for India product.

ETtech

@ETtech

5 months

Allen Career Institute buys problem-solving platform Doubtnut in slump sale A statement from Allen Career Institute said the acquisition will help the tutoring institute build on its technology-led learning solutions. By: @supriya_speaks

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Gotta say @jivraj_sachar is a very skilled interviewer and he got me to talk a lot more than .. um .. usual ;)

Jivraj Singh Sachar

@jivraj_sachar

3 years

Being World Class is a frame of mind and Roy explains it beautifully. This episode was not just a conversation, it was a vibe. A vibe that instills the want to be World Class! Thanks @smdcmc for this. Your candid flow of thought was simply terrific! Tune in - @isv_podcast 👇🏻

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

Having lost btc in every conceivable way, am personally super excited to partner with @zenzhenyu and @bluzuli as they build out the perfect decentralised solution for custody of crypto keys, and so honoured to rep @Sequoia_India here with @AugieIlag and @Sid_1_0 !

Web3Auth

@Web3Auth

2 years

1/ We are excited to share our raise of $13m from @Sequoia_India @usv @multicoincap and others to continue to drive mass adoption of dapps and wallets! We are also proud to reveal #Web3Auth , which kickstarts the decentralization of the Torus Network.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Stoked to partner with @lambdatesting in their mission to help software ship faster and with higher quality. @asad0801 @HarshjitSethi @mayank_porwal18 @Sequoia_India @_surgeahead

LambdaTest raises $16 million in series B funding led by Sequoia India

Other investors who participated as part of the round include Telstra Ventures, and Wamda Capital

www.livemint.com

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

what a crazy ride this has been for @AjeyGore and the rest of the Coignition and code42 teams in building an incredible company ( group of companies in actual fact)

Shailendra J Singh

@sjs_day1

4 years

in early 2015 when Gojek was scaling exponentially, my colleague @smdcmc introduced @AjeyGore to @gojekindonesia to help them build their tech platforms. Thank you @AjeyGore for your amazing contributions. This statement from Gojek is incredible 🙏🙏🙏

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Ok this is my contribution to #MeAt20 though strictly speaking I was 21 when this was taken.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Excited to talk at athena about the new wave of DevOps and database systems companies :)

Shiv Iyer

@thewebscaledba

3 years

How venture capital companies can help you in building Database Systems, DevOps and Deep Tech. business ? A unique opportunity to learn from Anandamoy Roychowdhary @smdcmc , Register here - #MinervaDBAthena2020 @MinervaDBAthena #VirtualConference

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Sunday studio with the inimitable @helloanand talking us through how @CleverTap did their initial sales and customer success with the Surge03 cohort. Absolute gold especially the ending “washing machine” story to emphasise the importance of collections :)

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@smdcmc

4 years

mind blown.

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@smdcmc

2 years

Excited to see our 1st prelaunch @_surgeahead devtool ( @mayank_porwal18 and i literally built the deck with @nishantmodak and @realmeson10 leading into our IC discussion) hit the main-line and deepen our relationship with @HarshjitSethi @Sid_1_0 of @Sequoia_India lead series A

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@peakxvpartners

2 years

. @nishantmodak & @realmeson10 believe that managing systems in production can be fun and embarrassingly easy, writes @HarshjitSethi , @Sid_1_0 & @mayank_porwal18 . We're excited to deepen our partnership with @last9inc by leading their Series A!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Nobody goes harder in the paint than this guy :). Grateful to bear witness to this crazy journey that @singh_sequoia has us all on, and to many more years of building legendary at @Sequoia_India and @_surgeahead :)

Gayatri Vasudeva Yadav

@GayatriPVYadav

3 years

Hey @singh_sequoia Congratulations on completing 15 years @Sequoia_India here’s to many more years of building legendary!

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@smdcmc

5 years

Pune unicorn in the house ! so so proud :)

Cloud data management company Druva raises $130 million, passes $1 billion valuation

Cloud data management company Druva has raised $130 million, securing the California company unicorn status with a $1 billion-plus valuation.

venturebeat.com

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@smdcmc

2 years

What makes this doubly special is the outpouring of love and support from our founders who we've backed, and their learnings that we apply to start scrappy and small to having a dedicated SEA fund in the matter of a decade. And excited for all the new founders we get to back :)

Peak XV Partners

@peakxvpartners

2 years

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.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Finally @BrightMoneyCo is out of the shadows :) . A first of its kind big data/AI co ( data first , us consumer fintech with serious india engineering ) that will be an exemplar for many to follow @HarshjitSethi @mayank_porwal18 @singh_sequoia @avipatch @ppplachkov @_surgeahead

Surge

@_surgeahead

3 years

“The future of financial services is personalised advice & products available real time & @ scale. @BrightMoneyCo has meticulously built an intelligent product to improve financial wellbeing." Read more 👇

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@smdcmc

4 years

ok this is hella cool from the @sharechatapp team for all the gpt 2/3 fans out there doing vernacular work! @frdahsan

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@sharechatapp

4 years

Amidst all the incredible buzz around #gpt3 , sharing one of our intern projects that used GPT-2 to generate Hindi Shayaris. (1/4)

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@smdcmc

3 years

Singapore be it’s own vibe

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@smdcmc

4 years

“So a peacock, a cow and a lion walk into a bar ...” @LadyAshBorg is walking us through the low level details on how to close 1M $$$ ACV deals as a startup and lessons for all of us to learn from that @_surgeahead Sunday studio time continued into hour 4 :)

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@smdcmc

1 year

@gauravmunjal You should see what @TheBhooshan is upto at and their wins at @zomato amongst others.

Personalized videos at scale | Gan.ai

Businesses use Myna to create personalized videos and share them with users at any and every touchpoint, through a custom landing page or webhooks.

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@smdcmc

4 years

I am not easily starry-eyed, but if Govinda tells you to download Cred you just do it !

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

1 year

A 2+ year old investment in @GanAIOfficial ably led by @TheBhooshan @AnupreetLamba that informs a lot of our thought process on the kind of AI investments. if this is you please get in touch with me or @Pushpak @TrivediVedant @Sid_1_0 @_surgeahead

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@smdcmc

4 years

Midnight we end our strategy plan session and are horsing around :) behind us a @interview_bit instructor takes her very first class at midnight for 200+ new engineers who are actively seeking to transform into great engineers #respectthehustle #keeponSurging @_surgeahead

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

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A fun evening as we hosted our first(of many) dinner with the deeptech founders of SEA, building satellites, laser drills, cancer treatments, AI tools, nxt-gen cybersec et al! hit us up if you are building in deep tech and want to join our next one! @SequoiaIndiaSEA @_surgeahead

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

founder scouting goes real early sometimes @guptajiten ;)

Jitendra Gupta

@guptajiten

4 years

My 8 months old knows Sequoia brand while growing up. Look at his T-shirt with Sequoia logo ;-) @Sequoia_India @mobhat @singh_sequoia

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

9 months

Champagne !

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

Amazing mention guys so proud @AjeyGore @ponnappa @gojektech @singh_sequoia !

Adithya Venkatesan

@adadithya

5 years

Bill and Melinda Gates call out @gojektech for helping improve the lives of millions of Indonesians. Nikmah's story is heart-warming and you only have to set foot in Jakarta to know how many people ❤️ GOJEK. It's a cultural phenomenon, not a company.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

What a moment . Take a bow @mrgirish this moment will inspire a nation and a thousand founders.

Girish Mathrubootham

@mrgirish

3 years

Today is a dream come true for me - from humble beginnings in #Trichy to ringing the bell at @Nasdaq for the FreshWorks IPO. Thank you to our employees, customers, partners, and investors for believing in this dream. #Freshworks #IPO #NASDAQ

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

This is huge - such exciting work in category creation by the folks at @AtlanHQ . Metadata management is rapidly emerging right behind the data lake itself as the most important category for big data projects @_surgeahead @Sequoia_India

Prukalpa ✨

@prukalpa

3 years

OMG! @AtlanHQ was just named in @Gartner_inc 's INAUGURAL Market Guide for Active Metadata Management! 🚀 This is a paradigm shift and we can't be more excited to be pioneering a whole NEW category in the Modern Data Stack!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

lol ok this might be best recruiting ad ive ever seen. @kunalb11

Harish

@harish_io

4 years

We are hiring across functions. Apply.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

1 year

One of the perks of investing in cos is we can force founders to twin with me in pictures ! ( this is a joke for the good people at #twtr ) . Sunrise sessions with @getsquarex and @vivekramac at @SequoiaIndiaSEA

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

Is it me or is bangalore unseasonably warm ? It’s never this stiflingly hot in the evening is it?

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

There’s a movie in here with @Neeraj_chopra1 as the hero who battles the famous #indiranagar gunda Rahul Dravid that @kunalb11 will write, you heard it here first ;)

Neeraj Chopra

@Neeraj_chopra1

3 years

360 Degree Marketing! @cred_club #ad

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

this is a "boys played well" moment ... so great to see our @_surgeahead investor alums turn founders @rishenkapoor @Ruchin_Kulkarni will kill it ! good luck with what comes next fam :)

Rishen ツ

@rishenkapoor

2 years

The way in which software has been purchased by businesses over the last decade has changed. Today, purchase decisions are no longer made in corner offices by execs, rather, they are made in the trenches by sales, success, tech, product, design and marketing teams amongst others

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

An absolute engineering MasterClass today from @ponnappa . Please write a book that will be the hyperscaling bible for Startups everywhere @gojektech

Surge

@_surgeahead

5 years

“For any complex system development, ruthlessly fight parallelisations. It gives an illusion of productivity but drives bad results. Sequence your execution into as few threads as possible.” @ponnappa joins @smdcmc as we continue our product/tech talks for week 02.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Chitale Bandhu is awesome as any Pune resident can tell you , and their taste extends to their graph making and story telling ;)

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

the sheer size of indian consumer tech allows us to build world-beating deep tech that can serve indian companies first and then go global . Here's a story of how @hevodata provides cloud ETL for the @Curefit team that allows them to build their cloud dwh faster. @_surgeahead

Hevo Data

@HevoData

4 years

An insight into how @BeCureFit is leveraging data to transform fitness in India. We at Hevo are super proud to be a part of this journey. Read this to know more -

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 months

Nothing is more satisfying as a VC than talking to founders you met when they were a dream on slides who are now running at scale winning in the US and basking in their reflected glory :) @_surgeahead sessions on how to win the USA in the house :) @prukalpa @ppplachkov @P_Kemps

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

The photo angle is brutal but this was a fun talk .

YourStory

@YourStoryCo

4 years

A talk on How to pitch AI to VCs by Anandamoy Roychowdhary ( @smdcmc ), Director Technology, Sequoia Capital ( @Sequoia_India ). #AIConclave19 @awscloud

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

This is a phenomenal talk by @ponnappa , I hope he writes a book on this some day . If you ever have the chance , run don’t walk ;)

Vikrama Dhiman

@vikramadhiman

4 years

Made the trek to Yehswanthpur to hear the one and only @ponnappa Will try and post snippets in this thread: Everyone wants to learn, no one wants to study.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

i cant think of anything i want more in life than to watch the behind the scenes of this with Rahul Dravid @CRED_club @kunalb11

Tanmay Bhat

@thetanmay

3 years

🤣 who wants a behind the scenes vlog of this?

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

feature request delivered : now you can apply to Surge all through the year !

Surge

@_surgeahead

5 years

1/3 Hello founders! We’ve two important announcements. First up, applications for Surge 03, which will commence March 2020, are now open!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

My primary take away is that the first class of Surge is a pretty special class of founders , and their journeys are going to be EPIC :)

Surge

@_surgeahead

5 years

'Culture will win the war'. ‘Punch above your weight on aspirational hires’. ‘Serendipity vs Strategy’. Founders share their Top 10 Takeaways from Week 01 of Surge!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

This is a very neglected topic for most DevOps engineers. #DevSecOps is a beginning mega-trend to help bring security practices to modern software startups. as usual the playable demo from @SecurityTube is something else cc @_surgeahead

Vivek Ramachandran

@vivekramac

4 years

Team is building DevSecOps labs! Here is one on the basics - simple pipelines with Jenkins! These will be released in September!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

Was always just a mediocre coder at best , but always striving for customer empathy !

Shashank Mehta

@shashankmehta05

4 years

"Best engineers are half product managers" Hold up while I go plaster this across office. Source: HN thread on "What do top engineers you know do that others don't?"

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

ok this definitely made me chuckle :)

Kevin William David

@kevinwdavid

4 years

I don't disagree either 🤣😆😂 @BillGates

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

there's maybe a few hundred people who can credibly claim to be able to code for quantum computers, and @jfitzsimons planning to change that at @horizon_quantum this article by @davidprosserind explains it well :

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

so far ESOPs have been a mixed bag for indian startups, but all this hiring pressure is finally creating the right alignment both for employees and founders, and this bodes very well for the future !

Kriti Gupta

@kriti_kg

2 years

ESOP buyback in India 2021: $435M ESOP buyback in India 2020: $50M This is real number we should be talking about. Employees of an early-stage company are their very first set of believers. Wonderful to see the risk reward ratio work for the ones who dream with the founders.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

1 year

#Semiconductors is what gave rise to the "Silicon" valley and VC in its present form, excited to be able to lead an investment in cutting edge Indian company that is building #SOCs in #riscv ! more power to @MindgroveTech @LadyAshBorg @Sid_1_0 @pushpakkedia @SequoiaIndiaSEA

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

As much as we celebrate Steve Jobs , sometimes feel like he is under-rated for how strong his understanding of the art and science of building things was , this articulation is just incredible coming from someone who didnt ever write code himself.

Amjad Masad

@amasad

3 years

Steve Jobs reacting to "no code"

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

this is just a super thread by @rachit_21 , i hope i someday can write something as bravely and fearlessly as he has here. i have seen founders go through this a lot, and hopefully you read this and realize that you are not alone and it gets better.

Rachit Gupta

@_Rachit_Gupta_

4 years

Fighting failure and depression - a very personal account I’m scared of sharing this. However, if it helps anyone with similar struggles find even a bit of optimism, it’s worth it. Me being open and vulnerable in private conversations has led others to open up and heal together.

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

I would have said that @shubhmalhotraa and @saisrinivas are in a league of their own , but 35 under 35 is also pretty cool :)

Mobile Premier League

@PlayMPL

4 years

We are humbled and glad to announce that our co-founders @saisrinivas and @shubhmalhotraa have been named in the @EntrepreneurIND 35 Under 35 list for 2020! Sai will be speaking at the Entrepreneur Live event in Mumbai tomorrow! See you there!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

if ever there was a man who was in love with the game its got to be him ... to go from mishap to mishap with no loss of enthusiasm is so inspirational .. so many startup life analogies here ;) cc @ku1deep @vivekramac @aaditya @AjeyGore @nishantmodak @realmeson10 @prukalpa

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

5 years

pretty incredible to see Byjus pull this off, with a Disney partnership ! Great work team, take a bow - @gvravishankar @Sequoia_India

Ranjit Radhakrishnan

@ranjitr

5 years

Excited to announce the launch of the Disney • BYJU'S Early Learn App. Opening up the magical world of learning to young minds in a unique way! #Products #Launch #Startups #BYJUS #Disney #Education #India

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 months

The @_surgeahead US summit is now officially kicked off ;)

Vivek Ramachandran

@vivekramac

3 months

Look who I bumped into! @smdcmc and Dikun. Looking forward to the @peakxvpartners @_surgeahead US summit!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

2 years

proudly watching as @AtlanHQ gets three #gartner hype cycle mentions in one year @_surgeahead

Prukalpa ✨

@prukalpa

2 years

Hey Tweeps! 👋 Something I have been wanting to share: Atlan was named in THREE #Gartner Hype Cycles this year. 🥁 It feels surreal to be the only company named in TWO of the coolest emerging categories of the year – Active #Metadata and #DataOps . ❤️

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

this is a huge step forward in the state of art on how to learn cloud security safely @SecurityTube @_surgeahead

Vivek Ramachandran

@vivekramac

3 years

BIG NEWS! Our AWS Cloud Playgrounds go live this month! This will allow you to learn AWS Security in "sandboxed" real accounts - tons of challenges are being worked on by the team! Azure and GCP are next!

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

3 years

Firstly it blows my mind that @DisneyPlusHS is at 5 Million requests per second at peak ! Also very pleasing is that they use @last9inc as their SRE platform for their daily site upkeep and maintainance. Nicely done @nishantmodak @realmeson10 @_surgeahead

Last9

@last9io

3 years

Where @DisneyPlusHS Engineering talks about @last9inc "It's a platform that is built on solid SRE principles with a twist for modern platforms."

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Anandamoy Roychowdhary

@smdcmc

4 years

The Surge 03 cohort reveal ! what a great set of companies and founders to work with through these challenging and pivotal moments.

Surge

@_surgeahead

4 years

15 startups from India, SG, Indo & Vn across SaaS, Dev tools, Consumer, F&B, Education & Health. 1/3 with at least one female founder. Founders from 8 nationalities including India, Indo, Vn, SG, Italy, Canada, Barbados & Sweden. We present Surge 03!

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