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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- ▶ 0:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show, and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in the pre-seed stages of some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, Spot…
The AI Moat Everyone is Ignoring | Phalgun Kompalli, Founder UpGrad and Bodhium Labs
- ▶ 0:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner for Neon Fund, a fund that invests at seed stages in some of the best enterprise AI companies coming out of India for the world.
Slow Teams Lose PMF in 90 Days | Krishna M, Elevation Capital
- ▶ 0:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddhartha Lawalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and your corridor, like Atomic Works, Spot Draft, CloudSec, and many… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:46 Krishna Mehra And the other part is I feel for that, unlike earlier, there's a lot of, uh, you know, investors who take that very early back, like, uh, Neon obviously is one which has done an incredible job there, but there are others too.
ChatGPT Killed My $50M ARR Business Overnight | Swapnil Jain Observe Al
- ▶ 1:11 unnamed speaker Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies coming from India, building for the US market, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft,…
The Billion Dollar AI Lab Founder Who Sees The Future First | Karan Goel, Founder & CEO of Cartesia
- ▶ 0:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies built from India for the globe, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- ▶ 0:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alawalia, your host at Neon Show and also managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies that started from India for the globe, including Atomic Works, Spot Draft,…
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 1:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner for Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies that started from India and building globally, like Atomic Works, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
The #1 Mistake Killing B2B Startups | Arun Penmetsa, Storm Ventures
- ▶ 1:01 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies that have come from India, building for the globe, like SpotRaf, CloudSec, and AtomicWork.
- ▶ 48:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia My learning has been, we have had 65 companies in Neon.
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 0:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner for Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies coming from India for the globe, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
- ▶ 24:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia We are now raising Neon Fund IV of, uh, fifty million dollars.
And How Matic Won By Choosing the Most Boring Market in Robotics with Founders Mehul and Navneet
- ▶ 0:52 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and your corridor, like Atomic Works, Poddraft, CloudSec.
- ▶ 40:27 Mehul Nariyawala There were no neon funds that we would raise from.
The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo
- ▶ 0:52 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in some of the best enterprise AI companies start from India and building globally, like Atomic Works, Poddraft, CloudSec.
How A Tiny Team Beat A $1 Billion Giant | Palash Soni, GoldCast Founder
- ▶ 0:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that has invested at pre-seed stages in some of the best enterprise AI companies that started out of India and building for the globe, like…
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 1:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that has invested at seed stages in some of the best enterprise AI companies coming from India, building for the US market and for the globe, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Sudhat Aluwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies that's starting from India and building for the globe, like Atomic Work, Spot…
Great Founders Aren't Writing Code. They're Building Its Immune System. | Animesh, PlayerZero
- ▶ 0:53 Dhaat Alwalia I'm your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and your corridor, like Atomic Work, SpotGraft, CloudSec.
The “Messy State” of AI & How to Fix It | Ameya, Braintrust CTO
- ▶ 0:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stages in the best of enterprise AI companies across US-India corridor, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft,…
How Poojan Kumar Used “Discontinuity” to Sell Two Startups | Nutanix ($12B) & Commvault ($4B)
- ▶ 0:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between the US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
- ▶ 39:23 Poojan Kumar I really appreciate this, and, you know, and, and super excited, ah, in what you folks are doing with the, with the Neon Fund, and, ah, where you're going with this.
Why "SaaS Apocalypse" is the Best Filter for Top 1% of Founders | Vignesh Ravikumar, Sierra Ventures
- ▶ 1:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between the US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, and Spot Draft.
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 1:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alouwalia, your host at Neon Show, and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, and SpotDraft.
After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- ▶ 1:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddhartha Lawalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in pre-seed stages in the best of enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, and…
Why Construction still Runs on Spreadsheets (And How AI Fixes It) | Sneha & Graham, Merlin AI
- ▶ 0:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alawalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US-India corridor 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what role did Neon play, if any, in your journey? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you know, Merlin is very unique companies, ah, in Neon portfolio, where you never have a sales constraint. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Yeah, I remember, uh, at Neon when, when we, uh, was speaking initially and decided to partner, uh, KS was at one of the construction sites, and he made me talk to the customer, and the customer called the previous software black box.
Why "Boring" Infrastructure is the Best Path to a $60B Company | Manish Jindal, Cloudflare & Arize
- ▶ 1:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and also managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, Cloud Psych, and SpotRraft.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia This is Siddharth Talwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund.
- ▶ 11:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, at Neon, what we are seeing and what we are practicing today, we have fundamentally seen a difference where we would earlier require the CEO to be go to market leader for the company, right?
- ▶ 56:33 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Yeah, and, and, you know, Foundation Capital became an LP in Neon. 2 times in the scene
Which AI Model are companies actually Paying For in 2026? | Rohit Agarwal, Portkey
- ▶ 1:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that has invested in some of the best enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, Spot Draft.
- ▶ 1:18:17 Rohit Agarwal I mean, yes, I think that's the whole goal that it's almost a community, and we'd love to keep partnering with Neon.
Where SMALL models will Win | Sudarshan kamath, Smallest ai
- ▶ 0:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, hi, this is Siddharth Alwarya, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that to invest in the best of enterprise AI companies between the US and India corridor, like Atomic Works, Poddraft, CloudSec. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia This is one of my biggest regrets, you know, I can tell you that not being able to be part of Smallest because, as you know, right, we were raising our own Neon Fund III at that point of time, we got connected, right?
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Sadhat Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fun.
How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai
- ▶ 1:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm Siddharth Allualia, host of the Neon Show podcast, managing partner at Neon Fund.
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 0:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US, India, Corridor, like Atomic Works, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
- ▶ 26:42 Siddhartha Ahluwalia At Neon, our mission is, you know, to make the U S India corridor, 10 X the size of U S Israel corridor. 2 times in the scene
How Buyers Discover Startups, From a 10-Year Founder Journey to an EXIT | Ankur & Vishwa, Zenduty
- ▶ 1:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies.
- ▶ 1:00:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Feel very proud that Neon was key part of your journey. 2 times in the scene
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 1:07:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Similar to Neon Fund because we are also Delaware Fund and we want companies to incorporated, to be incorporated in U.S. so that we raise money in U.S., we deploy in U.S. only.