Sold to the Referee: Zluri and the Exit India Doesn’t Talk Enough About
Infotech spent thirty years rating software vendors and had never bought one. Then it bought Bengaluru’s Zluri.
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← All of LFGPortkey or Horcrux: Can India Finance Its AI Winners?
Portkey.ai sold to Palo Alto for $140 million ten weeks after raising its Series A. Its exit is worth celebrating but it also surfaces the expensive gap between building a global AI startup from India and keeping one independent.
How Metaforms won by arming the industry AI was supposed to kill
Every AI pitch in market research assumes agencies are dying middlemen. Metaforms raised $11.3 million on the opposite bet: agencies survive, and whoever runs their back office wins.
Narrative violation: Attentive.ai’s bet against full AI automation seems to be taking off
Attentive AI raised $48M with a labor line that never goes away. Here's why keeping humans in the loop was the moat, not the flaw.
How Dhruv Joshi and Dileep Raman Built Cloudphysician: what 18 months of hospital visits taught them about saving lives
Dhruv Joshi and Dileep Raman left prestigious positions at Cleveland Clinic to spend 18 months visiting Indian hospitals. They learned the problem wasn't what they thought.
Rocket.new’s orbital shift – How an Indian startup fixed AI App development’s speed problem
How an Indian startup turned vibe coding into “vibe solutioning” - production-ready apps that actually work.
