The Orbit

Making it easier for businesses to expand and grow with the help of Partnership Relationship Management (PRM) tools

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Partnership IQ

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Focus 

Focus is a digital platform that uses design sprint principles and top-3% of world product design agencies to help teams to launch any digital product from idea to testing with real customers in just 2 weeks.

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Deloitte

Senior Consultant

Founder, CEO at The Orbit | On a mission to help 1000+ companies become global by scaling partnership ecosystems | Building next-gen PRM platform | Stanford Acceleration Program Alum

Hey there! I'm Max, founder and CEO of Orbit, where we unlock the potential of B2B tech companies by striking strategic partnerships in exciting new markets.

My passion for entrepreneurship and exploring the world has taken me on a journey across various countries, immersing myself in diverse cultures and business landscapes. These experiences have taught me the true power of indirect sales channels in achieving success across borders.

Throughout my career, I've tackled numerous entrepreneurial projects, including founding a startup studio called Focus, specializing in development, research, and design. I also had an insightful stint at Deloitte as an auditor. The common thread? The undeniable impact of strong partnerships.

Inspired by these experiences, I created Orbit — a platform connecting B2B tech businesses with industry partners in emerging markets like India, Indonesia, LATAM, MENA, and beyond. Our unique ecosystem boasts 250+ affiliate, referral, and reseller partners, helping entrepreneurs harness the power of indirect sales, speed up time to market, and broaden their horizons.

Orbit has experienced rapid growth, attracting angel investors from TMT Investments, Miro, and four other outstanding professionals and working with alumni clients of Stanford, Google Ventures, and Alchemist. My achievements as a top founder led me to participate in a prestigious acceleration program led by Stanford professor Bret Waters.

In 2022, I embarked on a new adventure by moving my family to Bangalore, India's IT hub, to launch Orbit and immerse myself in the local culture. This bold move reinforced my dedication to fostering international collaboration and empowering entrepreneurs worldwide.

Outside the boardroom, I'm a proud dad to two amazing daughters, a yoga enthusiast, and an adventure-seeker with a passion for mountaineering and paragliding.

I love connecting with new people and learning from their unique experiences. So, let's chat and uncover exciting opportunities together! Reach out to me at max@theorbit.me.

Max Todua

Lyzr AI

Lyzr is the simplest agent framework to help enterprises build and launch Generative AI apps faster. Through our SDKs, customers can deploy privately run, fully integrated & low-code AI agents across industries and functions within minutes. Lyzr SDKs are designed to support entire use cases, not just individual components.

Website : www.lyzr.ai 

Tools : 
www.magicprompts.lyzr.ai
www.promptstudio.lyzr.ai 

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Anybody Can AI community (Slack) - https://bit.ly/3Qb5rvX

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Head of Community & Events

Founding Team | Director of Community & Events

Metasky

Community Partnerships & Growth

ChangemakerXchange

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She For Change is a community-led and community-powered intersectional feminist organization. We are working on democratising growth opportunities for women in the social impact sector.  Together we co-create solutions, enable social ventures and initiatives by women, demand for policies and interventions to build a gender-equitable world. Let us advance the gender equality movement through radical collaboration and co-creation.

We also work on building and nurturing an intersectional feminist ecosystem that can bridge the gender gap in social impact leadership with a vast network of individuals and organizations who share our vision and thus catalyze a more significant positive social change and tackle global developmental issues.

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Singapore International Foundation

Young Social Entrepreneur 

Ashoka

Ashoka Youth Venturer

Finderbridge.com

Co-Founder

🙋🏻‍♀️Hello there! I'm Olivia, a passionate gender equality advocate, community builder, and social entrepreneur on a mission to change the world one community at a time. My love for shaking things up and taking on big challenges has led me to dive headfirst into the world of tech startups, as I believe they offer a powerful tool for creating large-scale impact.

As the founder of She For Change, a non-profit organization focused on advancing gender equality and empowering young women as impact leaders worldwide, I've created a feminist utopia of sorts with a killer network of like-minded organizations. When I'm not busy running the world, I'm evangelizing startups, promoting women's leadership and entrepreneurship, and forging new relationships.

With expertise in building community networks, business strategy and development, strategic partnerships, brand building, marketing, and community building (yes, I mentioned that one twice!), I'm confident in my ability to help tech startups achieve their goals while also creating positive social impact.

I firmly believe that technology solutions have the potential to create large-scale impact, particularly in areas related to gender equality and social justice. By leveraging the power of tech startups and building strong communities around them, we can create positive change and make the world a better place for everyone. So if you're a tech startup looking to make a difference, let's connect and make some magic happen! 🪄🦄

Olivia Deka

Yesterday Google ’s AI First Demo Day turned out to be a genuinely solid day in the ecosystem.

Walked into a room full of founders building with clarity and solving real, tangible problems.

Infrastructure & Agentic Systems
	•	Tile - agentic developer platform for designing, building and deploying mobile apps fast.
	•	Knit- the integration layer for AI agents to connect with MCPs, APIs, and enterprise data.
	•	videosdk.live- realtime AI agents that can listen, speak, see and act.
	•	Vaani Research Labs - foundational voice infrastructure enabling natural, human-like conversations.

Security & Compliance - 
	•	Protecto- simplifying GenAI-era data protection by eliminating the patchwork of filters and DLP tools.

Business OS, Productivity & FinOps
	•	Mysa - AI-powered OS for how businesses pay: bills, reimbursements, approvals, accounting.
	•	Superjoin- AI assistant that finally gives spreadsheet users real leverage.
	•	Pulse- turning fragmented customer feedback into product and business intelligence.

Creative, Marketing & Consumer AI
	•	Phot.AI - automating creative workflows for e-commerce and D2C.
	•	Orbo.ai - vertical AI OS for beauty: virtual try-ons, skin analysis, personalised recos.
	•	Sortment - AI agents that automate and personalise marketing at scale.
	•	@Sparky AI - voice-first English fluency practice without judgment.
	•	MyWonder- conversational learning companion for kids, making play independent and safe.

Healthtech & Biotech & my personal favourites of the Day -

These two stood out the most because they solve high-stakes problems with clear, scalable tech - very solid impactful use cases. 
Aignosis - webcam-based Autism screening enabling early, affordable, and accessible detection of neurodevelopmental disorders. Early screening is a massive unmet need. The blend of clinical relevance + accessibility is rare and genuinely impactful.

@AiSteth- AI-powered smart stethoscope for early detection of cardio-respiratory disorders + work on a biotech foundational model. Cardio-respiratory diseases are among India’s largest burden areas. A diagnostic tool that improves early detection at scale is high-value and high-leverage.

Both combine AI with meaningful healthcare outcomes not just efficiency, but actual life-changing intervention potential.

Between the demos, the best part was running into my community members from The Capital Room and ecosystem friends - VC, operators, and founders- the people who make the ecosystem feel small, familiar, and collaborative. Quick catch-ups, great conversations, exchanging insights that actually matter. 

A good day. The kind that quietly reaffirms why we choose to build here.

Architecting Women-Driven Capital Networks | Curating Dealflow | Scaling Venture-Backable Startups

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On 8th Nov, The Capital Room hosted 20 women from across VCs, Family Office, PEs, CVCs, IBs and fast-growing startups on the terrace of Madhusmita Das's home who's been with us at TCR since DAY 1 - no stage, no agenda, just an evening of mimosas, light drinks and snacks, and one simple premise: 

what happens when women who usually sit alone in heavily male-coded rooms finally get to sit together? The answer was effortless. 

Within minutes, conversations slid from investment theses to personal finance, from deal flow to dating, from marriage expectations to egg-freezing decisions, from ambition to loneliness, from the pressure to perform to the desire to pause. 

The walls dropped. The armour came off. Everyone felt seen. Everyone contributed. Everyone left a little lighter and a lot more connected. These are the rooms women in capital rarely get- but desperately deserve. 

And this is exactly what TCR is building: a space where women who deploy, enable or influence capital can show up as professionals and as people, without choosing between the two. If you’re a woman in the ecosystem and reading this from another city or another country, you already know how rare this is- and why these rooms matter. TCR is that room. And we’re just getting started.

Thank you to our partners for making this evening seamless: CycleBae, SOQO as our Gifting Partner, and #BloodBubbly (shashank jhunjhunwala) as our Official Beverage Partner.

Attendees : Madhusmita Das ( Leo Capital), Mili Srivastava (Diageo), Neha Agarwal (Peak XV Partners), Neelam Pandita (BlackSoil), Shelly K. (Caspian), Priya Harwani ( Groww), Krishti Das (Stride Ventures ), Vibha Chetan ( Cheravi Ventures ),  Shristi Khemka (Prequate Advisory), Animeha Singh (Scooby's Club), Janvi Tiwari (SOQO), Shagun V. and many more......

I’m opening up #Climate and #Sustainability for Q1 2026 at The Capital Room and actively looking to connect with 20 to 30 founders building high-conviction companies in this category, along with global women investors (early to growth stage investors) who want to back the next wave of climate innovation.

Our vertical spans:
• Clean energy and storage
• Carbon, MRV, and climate intelligence
• Agri, food systems, and circularity
• Water, sanitation, and waste innovation
• Mobility and EV infrastructure
• Green materials and industrial decarbonisation
• Climate fintech, insurance, and risk
• Adaptation, resilience, and disaster tech

If you’re building here - or investing here - I want to speak with you. Q1 is stacked with programming, ecosystem access, and global market pathways for this segment.

DM me or comment “Climate” and I’ll reach out.

| Maya Chandrasekaran | Shreya Bhattacharjee | Ashish Khetan | Swapna Gupta | Inika Kandwal | Green Frontier Capital | Neha Chauhan |

🚀 Calling founders & VCs building for India…

We’re partners with Sankalp Bharat - The 2nd Edition, India’s flagship platform for impact-driven innovation, happening in Lucknow this December.

This is where the capital market pays attention.
This is where serious founders get in the room.

What’s in play:
• Pitch directly to top funds & CVCs: Aavishkaar Capital , Blume Ventures, Bharat Innovation Fund, Circulate Capital, Capital A, Ankur Capital, Wavemaker Impact, Shell Ventures & more
• 600+ ecosystem leaders, investors & business operators- concentrated dealflow, zero noise
• Closed-door workshops led by the best in the business - Intellecap, NICEorg, etc.
• Visibility + momentum + a seat at the table shaping India’s impact economy
• Sectors that matter: AI, Climate, Agri, DeepTech, Mobility, Creative Economy, Circular Innovation

📍 Clarks Avadh, Lucknow
🗓️ 11–12 December 2025

We’re bringing the strongest founder pipeline through The Capital Room and happy to facilitate personal introductions in the rooms - if you want to be in rooms where capital moves and partnerships form, get ahead of the curve.

🎟️ I have exclusive discount codes & FREE PASSES for Startups via TCR →
DM me if you want in.

👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gVSK2K_B

Let’s make rooms move when you walk in. 🟠✨

#SankalpBharat2025 #TheCapitalRoom #Founders #ImpactInvesting #IndiaInnovation #WomenInCapital #Dealflow

If you’re a woman #Fintech co-founder/founder/CXO building in:
	•	Digital lending + underwriting
	•	Wealthtech + advisory automation
	•	Payments + transaction infra
	•	MSME finance + embedded credit
	•	RegTech / compliance automation
	•	Cross-border fintech
	•	AI x Finance infrastructure
	•	Insurance technology
	•	Open banking + account aggregation
	•	Risk, fraud, and KYC innovation

…then I want to hear from you.
The Capital Room > https://lnkd.in/g4uvfbyZ .

More details soon.
For now, consider this an early window for the few building the future of financial systems.

I’ve been building in public, and here’s the clarity I think I need to give out loud (given my inbox is full of chaos)

The Capital Room isn’t building a salaried team. It’s still Day 0. I’m building a capital system- a contributor-driven engine where incentives, not payroll, move the work. People don’t “work for” TCR; they plug into a design I architect.

Most of the confusion comes from this. The ecosystem only understands organisations through fixed teams, salaries, commissions, or familiar templates like funds, accelerators, or syndicates. #TCR is none of these.

TCR is a coordination layer- a system that aligns allocators, operators, capital pathways, and cross-border routes into one coherent architecture. This is the altitude I am operating at.

My work (as the founder) is always gonna be meta: designing the system, setting the logic, and orchestrating how capital flows and moves across all the nodes.

The reason many struggle to interpret the build is simple- very few people understand the mechanics I’m architecting around:

• mandate-driven allocation
• cross-border permissions and structuring
• how CVCs price strategic vs financial relevance
• sovereign and quasi-sovereign deployment filters
• family-office exposure and liquidity cycles
• bank-level compliance rails
• global market-access pathways outside domestic venture cycles

This is the logic that sits under TCR- and this is where my mind naturally operates. But the important part is this: I’m not doing it alone.

In just the last 15 days, I’ve onboarded couple of contributors who already understand these mechanics- people who can think in mandates, constraints, capital routes, and incentive maps. They don’t need translation; they speak the same structural language.

I design the architecture.
They run their mandates.
And together, the system moves.

It’s Day 0- and the engine is on.

PS: By 2030, TCR targets: 5,000 women allocators, 10,000 supported startups, and $1B+ in capital routed through structured pathways.

On 20th December, something rare is happening in Bangalore.

A room where women who build, back, restructure, hire, fire, fundraise, deploy, and carry entire companies on their shoulders finally get to sit together without having to explain the weight of it.

No panels. No mics. No pitch decks.
Just 20–25 women founders & women investors in a closed door circle… and the room shifts within minutes.

At The Capital Room, we’ve learned something powerful over the last few weeks:
When women in capital and creation sit together without the performance, conversations go deeper than GTM, CAC, runway, and hiring challenges.

They open into ambition, money trauma, identity, loneliness, reinvention, pressure, and the very real cost of carrying a business while carrying yourself.

And that’s why this dinner exists.
Not to network but to build a room women rarely get, but fundamentally deserve.

If you’re a woman in VC, PE, CVC, a family office, or you’re a founder building India’s next decade… you’ll want to be in this room.


20th December | 7–10 PM | Bangalore
Request your invite here:

Open article: TCR Curated Capital Circles : Dinner · Luma by luma.com

TCR Curated Capital Circles : Dinner · Luma

When two operators compare notes, the truth becomes impossible to ignore.
Thank you SUKANYA DIKSHIT for the sharpest conversation on women, capital and the gaps no one else is solving.
 
Conversations like these validate the work we’re doing at The Capital Room - and the work that still needs to be done.

View newsletter: TCR: From the Founder’s Desk

“Women don’t need permission to enter the room. We need a room that was built for us.” My conversation today with Sukanya Dikshit was one of those mom

Open article: TCR Founder's Note - Why Conversations Like This Prove TCR Must Exist by Olivia Deka • 4 min read

TCR Founder's Note - Why Conversations Like This Prove TCR Must Exist

In venture, the real advantage has never been just capital. It has always been closed-loop networks.

Male-dominated systems have run on these loops for decades:
• informal access
• deal whisper networks
• “call this person” 
• co-investor rituals
• tribal trust

These loops are how it gets decided who gets the first meeting, who gets the second look, and who gets syndicated without pitching.

Women have never had this at scale.

That’s the gap The Capital Room is closing.

We’re not building another community group. We’re building a women-led allocator loop that behaves like an economic engine- where information flows cleanly, conviction compounds, and capital moves with coordination. 

When women across angels, VCs, CVCs, PEs, banks, family offices, legal, and operators share the same loop, the market shifts.

That is the infrastructure we are building.

I hear a fascinating range of complaints about the venture ecosystem.
Some insist “VCs are the problem.”
Others are convinced “founders are the problem.”

A year ago, I might’ve entertained these claims as empirical truths. Now, with a wider aperture, they read more like artefacts of partial information.

Because the paradox is this:
Most VCs have problems but majority don’t. The same applies to founders.
It’s not a binary; it’s a function of where you stand in the capital stack, what you’re optimising for, and which sliver of the pipeline you’re exposed to.

At the narrative level, the tropes are popular and convenient:
• VCs are slow.
• Founders are unprepared.
• Investors lack conviction.
• Startups lack traction.

But once you sit in the interstitial space- where incentives, expectations, and asymmetries collide- the picture changes.

You start to see that what looks like “incompetence” is often a structural artefacts. What gets labelled “attitude” is usually an information asymmetry. And what’s framed as “lack of conviction” is frequently a rational response to portfolio math.

It’s easier to critique individuals than it is to interrogate the architecture.
Which is why the same stories keep circulating.
They’re neat.
They’re digestible.
They ignore 90% of the actual system.

If anything, this one year has clarified this for me: People aren’t usually the constraint.
The design of the ecosystem is.

Until we re-engineer the interfaces- clarity, access, incentives, pathways- founders will continue to blame VCs, VCs will continue to blame founders, and both will continue to describe symptoms with great confidence.

I still listen to every complaint. (w a smirk - because every story is DATA 🙂)

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