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We believe AI in India will be built by technical crack teams. Activate is a new age venture firm purpose-built for such founders, engaging with them well before incorporation and investing $500k-$3M at inception. ‍ Aakrit ran Haptik, one of India's first AI companies (acquired by Reliance Jio). Angel investor in 100+ startups and recently Advisor to IndiaAI Mission. Pratyush was part of the team that backed Composio, Emergent, Rocket.new from India. Runs APAC's largest GenAI community. ‍ The Activate platform combines Capability, Community & Content — honed through 2 decades of shared experiences & deep networks. Our LPs include some of the foremost technology leaders across the India-US corridor: We run India’s largest Generative AI community spanning 15k+ technical practitioners. Request here to join Activate Signal is our media platform focused on crafting India’s AI narrative. Signal aims to be not another VC brand propaganda, but rather the defining voice of what’s happening in

Activate: Early-stage AI venture fund (India) India needs its own institutions that just don't participate in AI — they shape it. Activate is India's native-AI venture firm. We believe India's defining AI companies will emerge from the sectors where the country is already structurally strong: commerce, financial services, education, healthcare, and services. Not by building better software, but by fundamentally reimagining how these industries operate. AI follows economic gravity. Aakrit (opens in a new tab) ran Haptik, one of India's first AI companies (acquired by Reliance Jio). Angel invest

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