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Vandit Jain retweeted
My father's phone was hacked by cyber fraudsters and they've withdrawn a huge amount from his bank. I have called your number endless times @Cyberdost but your responders are busy ALL THE TIME
What's even the point of this helpline?
Vandit Jain retweeted
We're about to hit 300,000 shipments per month. 🚀
Calculating further, this means roughly €17 million worth of goods is moving through our infrastructure every month and on an annual basis, that's around €200 million in merchant goods.
Just to put our journey into perspective: the first half million shipments took us over 2 years. The next half a million took just 7 months. That's the power of compounding.
The hardest part is going from 0 to 1. Once you've built the foundation, every new customer, logistics partner, feature, and country builds on top of everything you've already created.
Soon we will hit 10 million shipments a month, if we hit this we have a jaw-dropping-level impact on the economy, meaning, there will be merchants goods transported through service worth about €6,7 billion!
We're only just getting started. 💪🚀
Vandit Jain retweeted
Founders raising in 2026, this is for you:
I built a visual playbook to help you raise your first round without wasting the whole year.
This is your step-by-step action plan from finding VCs to closing your round.
I wish I had this playbook at my first raise.
👉 Comment "playbook" for free access
Here's what's inside:
→ Understand the VC game (what VCs really want, where they invest)
→ Build your investor list (where to find relevant VCs, how to follow up)
→ Plan out your raise (SAFE vs equity, how much to raise)
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If you're raising in 2026, you need this playbook.
👉 Comment "playbook" for free access
(Make sure you follow @StephNass to receive my DM)
Retweet this and help out a founder in your network
Vandit Jain retweeted
Your pitch deck is ready.
But are you talking to the right investors?
OpenVC = your fundraising co-pilot.
- Find investors who back founders like you
- See who's actively deploying capital
- Skip the gatekeepers
Start raising smarter: openvc.app
Vandit Jain retweeted
Asked someone from the industry whether foreign investors are still interested in allocating to India. The TLDR:
Interest has pretty much died out. India is seen as geopolitically exposed, especially to an oil shock. There are no real AI plays. Valuations are rich. And the rupee situation doesn't help.
On top of that, investors who were sitting on gains have taken money off the table and are now looking at markets like Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe etc instead.
He also pointed out that our LTCG/STCG structure and the increase in STT have made India less attractive compared to other markets that are seeing inflows.
If we need to attract FPIs back, and we do, fixing this feels like pretty low-hanging fruit.
Vandit Jain retweeted
Dear friends, I have something important to tell you.
In December 2024, 'researchers' from multiple Indian Government Homeopathy institutions along with 'researchers' from Israeli Homeopathy institutes, published a randomized controlled trial that concluded that use of Homeopathic formulations in children during first 24 months of life reduced infections and antibiotics use compared to 'standard of care.' This was published in the prestigious European Journal of Pediatrics.
The study was viral. It was all over the media and news here in South India and also in some National media and was Whatsapp 'proof' of Homeopathy being better than modern medicine in infants. The study was used to promote anti-vaccine sentiments and Homeopathy products in South India. Homeopaths hailed the study as 'path breaking' - also because the Ayush Ministry and Government Homeopathy practitioners were study authors involved in it.
I read the study. I am trained in advanced statistics and research writing.
The study was utter nonsense. And fraud. It looked like the authors did not even actually perform the study. I really doubted whether any patients were involved at all.
I wrote a letter to the editor of the journal, asking him to kindly review the paper and investigate 'scientific integrity' and ethics.
And after nearly 10 months of investigations by the Journal, Publisher and Research Integrity Team, we were proven correct.
The paper was fraud and now it has been RETRACTED. @RetractionWatch
The lesson here is that, if people really did understand what Homeopathy is and what its practitioners are, it is easy to find that it is clearly fraud. There is nothing in Homeopathy that works. It is unscientific utter nonsense. Every positive study on Homeopathy is mostly published in 'Homeopathy' journals. Sometimes, it infiltrates a real, valid journal (like in this case) and then it gets retracted because the scientific community is always alert.
There are many such instances: See - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… and nature.com/articles/s41598-0… and nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
The worst part here is that all these Homeopathy practitioners who are authors of the study are working in Indian Govt. public health sector - meaning, their salary is paid from public funds and citizens taxes. These wastrels are eating away our hard earned money and using it to fund fraud. Who will stop these criminals?
Even worse, the fraud, now retracted study was published as 'open access' in the European Journal of Pediatrics - which means, the authors paid £3090.00 GBP or $4990 USD, or €3990 EUR equivalent in INR to publish fraud. Where did they get this money from? Yes. Indian public tax money.
Homeopathy needs to be booted out of this country. Parents, do not send your children to study Homeopathy even though India offers a 5 year course and gives them a "Dr." title at the end of it. They are not doctors. They are legitimized frauds and legalized quacks, as you can see from this retraction.
"Homeopathy is a lively relic of the prescientific era. Not healthcare."
@arifhussaintm
Link:
link.springer.com/article/10…
Vandit Jain retweeted
I want to build this in San Francisco.
👉 A 100-dorm hostel for founders across the globe
👉 A private club for VCs and investors
👉A banquet hall to host Demo days and events
👉A pool and sauna to relax
👉A subsidized cafeteria for hustlers with meals starting $10
👉Telescope observatory and a party deck
It will cost $20M to set up as is.
Who wants to fund me? 🤓
Vandit Jain retweeted
I just came across the MOST PREDATORY TERMS offered by an "incubator" to a founder:
- 3 percent equity upfront, before any results.
- 5% of all funds raised through them
- Mandatory public association on startup website
- $50,000 penalty if the founder leaves
In exchange, here's what they do:
- They cold email 15k investors.
- They make 0 to 4 investors intros
- Zero obligation of success
This is next-level scam. Founders, don't fall for that pls!
Vandit Jain retweeted
This is utterly irresponsible. Luckily people dont listen to folk like you otherwise we would have a infectious disease crisis on our hands
Vandit Jain retweeted
How I came to see the “Great Feminization” as the most significant event of our century—and a potential threat to civilization. compactmag.com/article/the-g…
Vandit Jain retweeted
This is probably the most important conversation to be having right now in our society. While I don't have all of the answers here (and much to consider) a lot of what I've seen take place over the past few years building a firm as a woman has been unfortunate. More specifically, I consciously walked away from capital from LPs that were trying to meet DEI metrics which is an effect of the Great Feminization. The social engineering argument here is one I tend to agree with. Not that I believe any group led by a majority of women largely/always make more emotional (therefore poorer) choices, but I do believe that many efforts that have come as a result of the Great Feminization brute-forced wrong fits for roles that have led to truly terrible outcomes for our society.
How I came to see the “Great Feminization” as the most significant event of our century—and a potential threat to civilization. compactmag.com/article/the-g…
Vandit Jain retweeted
Fundraising Tip #38:
Throw your deck in the garbage. Use this 7 slide template instead:
1. Title
2. One sentence vision
3. Team
4. Traction
5. Market size
6. Competitors
7. Ask
Vandit Jain retweeted
A few days ago Y-combinator opened its application for the W'26 batch. 100 startups from around the world will get selected to spend 3 months in the valley along with a $500K pre-seed capital.
We applied 6 times. Didn't went through. However, the process itself has been enriching. Most founders don't fully grasp the hidden meaning of each question and they jump to answer.
It's important to reflect what each question is trying to know about your startup. Most questions are indirect way of knowing unique insights /TAM/progress/ your secret sauce etc.
I have compiled this table after doing extensive research, reading tons of interviews of YC partners, and generally speaking to YC founders.
We are not applying anymore but for the next set of leaders and founders, I hope you make it.
Vandit Jain retweeted
If you are a super-early stage founder and you are wondering do you need an accelerator or an incubator. Here is a full break down.
1️⃣ Incubator
Goal: Help you figure out what to build and who to build it with.
Stage: Pre-idea or pre-team — you might just have a problem statement, not a product.
What you get: Resources, grants, workspace, mentorship, and time to explore.
Duration: Usually longer (6–24 months) and less intense.
Equity/Funding: Often minimal or none; some take small equity.
Output: Exit with a validated product or MVP ready for the market.
2️⃣ Accelerator
Goal: Take an existing startup and push it to scale fast.
Stage: Post-team, MVP ready, or with some traction.
What you get: Funding (often in exchange for 5–10% equity), structured mentorship, investor access, and an intense program.
Duration: Short and high-pressure (3–6 months).
Output: Exit with a growth plan, investor interest, and a path to raise more
💡 Fun Fact: YC (Y Combinator) calls itself an accelerator, but ~70% of its batch joins at the idea stage. The difference? Even idea-stage founders there are expected to launch quickly and grow fast.
Bottom line:
If you need time to refine your idea and team → Incubator 🛠️
If you’re ready to grow and raise → Accelerator 🚀
Questions?
Vandit Jain retweeted
Yes.
Most founders I meet are often confused what do VCs mean when they ask - Why are you the team that will win? They end up talking about their skills and passions - which are good answers of-course but they don't know that investors are basically asking what is your unfair advantage?
What is your hack or your jugaad(a popular Hindi word) in the system that another competitor that mushrooms won't be able to copy easily? What do you know about the industry that others don't? Are you an insider? or have you cracked a distribution system that will take months if not years to replicate.
It is not a buzzword it comes into play in real-life when the startup is executing and hits a wall. Investors know this and this is their way to minimize risks.
