Peak XV Partners

LLM is an advanced AI system trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like language. It can answer questions, write text, and assist with tasks by predicting words based on context.

Founder playbooks, market reports and portfolio announcements from Peak XV Partners and Surge, for people building companies across India and Southeast Asia.

The company says the build-versus-buy discussion should extend to reframing product development as product creation, while early-stage founders consider creating products with fewer people.

Aadith Ramesh

Aakash works with early-stage startups at Peak XV. He is a founding member of Surge, Peak XV's seed platform for company builders.

Abhishek Gupta is the Head of IT/Technology at Peak XV.

Abhishek Mohan is a Managing Director at Peak XV Partners. He works closely with early-stage startups like Absolute Foods and The Whole Truth.

Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA) is a leading venture capital firm investing across India, Southeast Asia and beyond.

Peak XV is a global Venture Capital firm with over 20 years of experience partnering deeply with founders to build enduring companies.

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Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors. The article opens with Justin Zheng recalling a 2019 poker game with Dylan Iskandar at a conference run by economist Tyler Cowen.

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Peak XV Partners raises Surge’s per-company seed investment ceiling to $5 million, up from $3 million, and introduces an 18-startup Surge 12 cohort. The firm invests more than $50 million across the cohort, which has collectively raised over $90 million in seed funding. The startups span AI, robotics, space, healthcare, consumer products, music and fintech; five focus on India, while 13 target global markets.

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TechCrunch outlines a San Francisco side-event program surrounding its Disrupt 2026 conference, which runs October 13–15 at Moscone West. The schedule includes mixers, demos, workshops, and networking events from October 11 onward, including gatherings hosted by NMI, Backblaze and Flamethrower, Peak XV Partners, and Augment and Mintz. Events bring together founders, investors, operators, and technology communities around topics such as embedded payments, private markets, AI, robotics, and security.

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