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INDVest forum spotlights tech CEO Somsubhra GanChoudhuri
The forum placed the spotlight on Som’s data-driven approach, structured exit, and institution-building philosophy.
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Staff Reporter - Fri, 21, Nov 2025
- 14:50 EST
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Snapshot of the INDVest Forum NYC / Courtesy: Ravi Karkara
The INDVest Forum NYC on Nov. 20 focused on Ai Palette co-founder and chief executive Somsubhra GanChoudhuri (Som), whose operational discipline and exit strategy were framed as examples of long-horizon institution building.
Ai Palette’s data infrastructure, developed under GanChoudhari’s leadership, processes billions of real-time consumer signals spanning menus, reviews, social media, e-commerce listings, and patents across 61 countries and 36 languages.
The session examined his progression from a bootstrapped venture to a strategic exit to Global Data, positioning his approach as central to the forum’s discussion on India’s economic roadmap to 2047.
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On resilience and exit philosophy, GanChoudhuri said, "Resilience is not the absence of fracture; it is the disciplined refusal to remain broken. The highest return I ever generated was not the exit multiple—it was the institutional memory, tempered team, and recycled ambition that the exit released back into India’s entrepreneurial reservoir. Great exits are not extraction events; they are reinvestment rituals."
Ravi Karkara, founder of INDVest and co-chair of the India 2047 Coalition, said, "Som embodies the rare founder who treats every milestone as national infrastructure. His exit did not remove capital and talent from the Indian flywheel—it supercharged it."
"This is the precise compounding mechanism INDVest was created to catalyze: turning individual successes into irreversible ecosystem velocity toward a $35 trillion India by 2047," he added.
Shubham Dhoot, founder of StartoPreneur, said, "In a world obsessed with unicorn valuations, Som reminds us that the true unicorns are the repeat builders who return stronger, wiser, and more generously."
"Ai Palette was never just a company—it was a playbook for how Indian founders can own global categories from India, exit strategically, and immediately redeploy scar tissue and surplus capital into the next wave," he added.
The session reiterated a core IND2047 principle: Indian enterprises must be engineered not only for scale but also for exits that elevate governance quality, ambition, and execution capacity.
Speakers noted that when experienced founders reinvest post-exit knowledge and capital into new ventures, India’s economic goals move from aspiration toward operational certainty.
The session was co-hosted with StartoPreneur under 'The India Moment' series. Organizers said INDVest and StartoPreneur will continue highlighting such builders and developing repeatable frameworks that support India’s long-term economic trajectory.
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