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Jul 2021
Pippin is building the autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis.
Building a home requires human labor to: measure, cut, lift, drill, paint, and attach. This labor is used for a building’s: structure, vapor barriers, windows, insulation, siding, roofing, electrical, plumbing, fixtures, appliances, and cabinetry. The construction industry solves this complex variety of tasks by dividing them among tiny companies of specialized artisans. Few lessons learned are shared and the industry has had no growth in labor productivity since 1947.
Building technology, methods, and materials have advanced and the constraints limiting home manufacturing can now be removed. Regulations have changed to allow small and simple accessory dwelling units (a.k.a. ADUs or backyard homes), making it easier to mass-produce housing. Pippin started in the ADU market with its brand "Rent the Backyard" and will build duplexes, quadplexes, and eventually large apartment buildings.
Investor & Strategic Advisor
Jul 2014
We are on a mission to simplify finances for Indians. We make software for invoices, taxes, payments and credit with a promise of saving money and time for millions of businesses, their supply chains, accountants and employees. We have grown over years to now ‘see’ a material portion of India’s economic graph on our network.
We process about 10% of India’s B2B invoices, which is over $300B of trade value every year.
We contribute to 10% of India’s e-Invoice generation.
We saved over ₹1,000 Cr for more than 400K businesses last year, roughly 2-7% of their tax outflow.
Over 2,000 of India’s biggest brands and large corporations trust us for our promises.
Over 80,000 tax experts use our platform every year.
We handle over 10% of India’s income tax returns.
Over 2M people come back to us every year to manage their taxes.
We help over 130M Indians demystify personal finances on our website every year.
All of this is delivered to our customers through the convenience of cloud. They access our products via web and desktop applications, mobile phones and APIs. Even as we graduate from taxes to connected businesses and financial services, we will continue to simplify finances and bring clarity to the fore.
We were incubated in Y Combinator and are funded by Silicon Valley investors, including PayPal co-founders Peter Theils Founders Fund, Max Levchin, and Scott Banister - an early investor in Facebook and Uber. We initially raised $15.5M with investors including Sequoia Capital and SAIF Partners. In October 2018, we raised $50M in series B funding from Composite Capital. We know where we want to be and are well-equipped with capital and a passionate team, to continue our growth and product journey. If you share our mission and want to build delightful fintech products, please reach us at careers@cleartax.in.
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Apr 2013
URX empowers publishers to monetize mobile content and enables advertisers to drive mobile commerce. The world's most forward-thinking companies use URX to connect users directly to relevant commerce experiences. URX is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised $15M from Accel, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, SV Angel and Y Combinator.
Investor and Strategic Advisor
Jun 2011
Mobius designs, manufactures and sells vehicles built specifically for the African mass market. Mobius II was conceived by reimagining the vehicle around the needs of the African consumer – common road terrain, typical vehicle loading and average income levels were important factors in the development of the vehicle. The result: an SUV with the durability required to handle rural roads, sold at the price of a used sedan.
We are headquartered in Nairobi, one of Africa’s most dynamic cities. Here, we want to build a team of highly motivated, ambitious and talented individuals with a passion for the automotive industry and a dedication to creating an exceptional customer experience. We are constantly looking for outstanding candidates who share our vision and want to join us in disrupting the African vehicle market.
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Jan 2024
At Atman Labs, we are driven by a future where AI systems are more than just passive output generators but instead benevolent human counterparts. We believe standalone AI technologies cannot emulate true human intelligence that consists of deep knowledge and proactive interactions, nor create platforms that can interact with humans over long periods of time to help us reach conscious objectives. A new approach to building truly intelligent systems needs to be grounded in both biology and technology. It needs to be compounded by commercialization, and it needs to be tied to a spiritual vision that goes beyond a single self.
Atman’s unique research lies at the novel intersection of custom Reinforcement Learning environments, large-scale Knowledge Representation, and multi-modal Generative Models, which mimic how humans dynamically strategize and interact with the world, reason, and communicate. We are deploying our platform in products across a number of commercial domains to demonstrate the value of our approach – starting with building proactive shopping concierges for e-commerce, to eventually launching products that scale expert-led interactions across travel, healthcare, education, and more. By building machines that emulate human experts and act symbiotically with humans, we want to allow humans to experience a higher level of consciousness in their lives and develop a deeper intuition of consciousness as a whole. We believe this is the first basecamp towards building benevolent general intelligence that coexists with humans.
2021
Board Member
Jul 2021
Pippin is building the autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis.
Building a home requires human labor to: measure, cut, lift, drill, paint, and attach. This labor is used for a building’s: structure, vapor barriers, windows, insulation, siding, roofing, electrical, plumbing, fixtures, appliances, and cabinetry. The construction industry solves this complex variety of tasks by dividing them among tiny companies of specialized artisans. Few lessons learned are shared and the industry has had no growth in labor productivity since 1947.
Building technology, methods, and materials have advanced and the constraints limiting home manufacturing can now be removed. Regulations have changed to allow small and simple accessory dwelling units (a.k.a. ADUs or backyard homes), making it easier to mass-produce housing. Pippin started in the ADU market with its brand "Rent the Backyard" and will build duplexes, quadplexes, and eventually large apartment buildings.
2020
Investment Partner
Jul 2020
Transpose Platform is redefining early-stage investing by backing the next generation of venture structures, accelerators, and the breakout companies they nurture. We partner with top-tier incubators, venture studios, and emerging investment platforms to support founders from inception through growth.
With a strategic, formation-focused approach, Transpose actively invests in venture programs that generate high-quality deal flow, ensuring early access to the most promising startups. Our unique model allows us to invest programmatically, identifying and scaling category-defining companies before they become household names.
Since 2015, our team has built a strong track record of investing in innovative funds, platforms, and companies that are transforming industries. By leveraging deep insights, data-driven selection, and a vast global network, we help founders and investors unlock unprecedented opportunities in venture capital.
At Transpose, we believe the future of investing is not just about picking winners—it’s about creating them.
2015
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muse.ai
CEO & Co-founder
May 2015
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