Hemant Mohapatra (Lightspeed India) | Saket Agarwal (Onnivation) | Shiv Parekh (hBits) | Episode 39

Today’s episode connects India’s new AI success stories, a global capital reset, and real-asset innovations — with founders and investors thinking long-term. 🔥 News Highlights Google’s AI Futures Fund backs Indian coding startup Emergent — vibe-coding, no-code + AI, 2.5M users, $25M ARR in five months. Tiger Global steps back with a $2.2B “cautious fund” — shifting to high-conviction, slower-deployment venture investing. Microsoft to invest $17.5B in India by 2029 — hyperscale data-centres, AI infrastructure expansion and training 20M Indians. Paramount / Affinity Partners launches a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery — throwing a wrench into the streaming-studio deal frenzy. 🎙️ Guest Segments 1/ Hemant Mohapatra — Partner, Lightspeed India Why deep-tech from India still matters: from quantum to robotics, and how frontier bets might shape the next decade. 2/ Saket Agarwal — Founder & CEO, Onnivation On building cross-border startup bridges (US/Israeli ⇢ India); how you vet global founders for “India-ready” scale; what a successful India-market win looks like. 3/ Shiv Parekh — Founder, hBits Why fractional real estate / SM-REITs may redefine property investing in India now — and how changing work and housing patterns are reshaping demand. 🎧 Watch, subscribe, and join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow us:X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theofflinenetwork LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/offlineonair Website → https://www.theoffline.network #TheOfflineNetwork #IndiaTech #Startups #AI #DeepTech #VentureCapital #RealEstate #FractionalRE #Investing #Emergent #TigerGlobal #MicrosoftIndia #WBD #WarnerBrosDiscovery #Onnivation #hBits #LightspeedIndia