W/ a vision to be t/ default seller app for online merchants, Blend is on a mission to turn every online seller into an e-commerce pro. This AI graphic design & marketing app creates product visuals, social graphics, product descriptions & ads in seconds. blend.to

1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region. sequoiacap.com/india/article/…

#Founders in #India, we want to meet you next week! We're having a Surge open house in #Bangalore w/ Surge founders, t/ Surge team + a wider group of early-stage founders in the ecosystem 🙌🏼 If you'd like to attend please apply for a limited spot 👇🏼 get.surgeahead.com/surge-open-hou…

#Sequoia India Capital announced its early-stage startup accelerator programme #Surge will be extending its seed funding range to $3 million. Surge yourstory.com/2022/06/sequoi…

We’re raising the ceiling and removing the floor on Surge. No longer $1-2M. If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you! surgeahead.com/surge-extends-… Thread 🧵 👇🏼

5/ Our team is now 30+ ppl. Surge’s extensive offerings as a seed product combine a 16 wk program with investment + the opportunity to tap into 50 years of Sequoia’s global tribal knowledge on what it takes to really build enduring companies frm the ground up.

Thank you #Bengaluru! So awesome to meet so many #startups & #founders building amazing businesses in India. Looking forward to more events IRL!

Pay with Rewards. Pay anywhere. Congratulations Amit Koshal Amit Sharma @RishiBatra0808 and team twid for the Series A. #Surge05 Surge Antara Raychaudhury

Welcoming Surge 07 to the #SurgeFam!! 🎉 37 accomplished #founders across 15 startups leveraging tech to drive innovation in #India, #SoutheastAsia & the world! We're blown away by the diversity of sectors & founders & the scale of their ambition surgeahead.com/meet-the-audac… More 👇🏼

4/ It was a blast connecting with this cohort IRL as we kicked off #Surge07 in person (we haven't done that since we kicked off #Surge02 in 2019!). Can't wait to spend the next few months learning, sharing & building with our founders, ex- SequoiaIndiaSEA team & speakers! 💛

1/ Ending the week with immense gratitude for the quality time with our #Surge07 #founders learning & building connections. A chance to have honest & open conversations about the company building journey & what it takes for a #startup to really build something enduring.

The magic of community is inexplicable. Grateful for the opportunity to build something for founders Surge and learn from them🙏 Best sign-off to 2022🚀

Surge turns 4 this week, and we’ve grown into a community of 300+ #founders & 130+ #startups! 🎂 It’s been a huge privilege for our team to play a small part in helping the 8 cohorts we’ve had. Watch ex- SequoiaIndiaSEA's Peak XV lay out the idea and vision for Surge.

Super stoked for the opportunity to build Early Spring alongside raja ganapathy vineet arun Sanjeev Vaidyanathan and the good folks of Spring Marketing Capital 🙏🏼

Love love love!

To the moon 🚀

Ria and Shreya - fresh out of college - are building a cool, new-gen athleisure brand Cava. And Early Spring has led the first institutional round in this company. Spring Marketing Capital arun vineet Rohan Talati Varun Khullar Antara Raychaudhury

Thrilled to announce Early Spring investment in Hoop - a cool, New-Gen range of wellness products for pain management, muscle recovery, sleep improvement. Co-founded by the powerhouse dynamic wife-husband duo Twinkle Uppal and Saharsh Agarwal 1/3 Spring Marketing Capital arun vineet

When you are buying atta, look for the freshness expiry date, not just the product expiry date. Check out floryo.com And watch this entertaining video :-) #D2C #Campaign #Launch #Advertising #investment Spring Marketing Capital arun vineet Antara Raychaudhury Varun Khullar

6 years today, but it’s always Day 1 :)