Microgrants for bold and ambitious student founders.

Mumbai, India
Joined February 2025
Introducing 3F VC Microgrants for bold and ambitious founders building in Hardware, AI, Deeptech, and beyond.
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Building in public is useful even when nobody is following you. Documenting what you tried, what went wrong and what comes next creates a record that others can learn from. We put together a simple guide to writing better public updates. 3f.vc/article/how-to-write-a…
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Most early founders don't have impressive numbers to share. That's fine. A failed experiment, a wrong assumption or an unexpected learning can make for a useful public update. Here's how to write one that people can actually learn from. 3f.vc/article/how-to-write-a…
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You don't need users or impressive numbers to write a public update worth reading. Your mistakes, failed experiments and what you learnt from them can be useful to another founder. We wrote a short guide on how to make your public updates worth reading. 3f.vc/article/how-to-write-a…
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Modular DCs move a lot of the work into a factory. Power, cooling and racks show up as tested units.
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Data centres used 415 TWh of electricity in 2024. The IEA’s base case sees that nearly doubling to ~950 TWh by 2030.
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Ajinomoto is best known for seasoning your food. It also makes a material that ~95% of advanced AI chips depend on. The company that puts umami in dinner also helps put GPUs in data centres.
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intercom’s 2011 seed deck is 8 slides long and there’s no financial model anywhere in it. half the deck is just “here’s what this thing does.” they raised $600k on it. We went through the whole thing here: 3f.vc/article/why-intercoms-…
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if you want to do this with other decks, we built a thing for it. ask entrepreneur eklavya to pull up a real deck, explain any slide, or compare how different founders framed the same problem. entrepreneur.eklavya.io
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Are you an ambitious student from a tier 3 or tier 2 town in India who is great at hustling and wants to build something but isn't sure what to do next? We are happy to help 3f.vc
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Free guide to help entrepreneurs improve their pitch decks !
Want to know why Dropbox’s 2007 deck worked? Ask for a slide-by-slide breakdown, then click any cited slide and the real deck opens right on it. Answers you can actually check.
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Building a startup? Get a free AI-powered guide to help you improve your pitch deck, sharpen your story, and communicate your vision more effectively. Your next big idea deserves a great pitch. Try it for free entrepreneur.eklavya.io/
Want to know why Dropbox’s 2007 deck worked? Ask for a slide-by-slide breakdown, then click any cited slide and the real deck opens right on it. Answers you can actually check.
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Want to know why Dropbox’s 2007 deck worked? Ask for a slide-by-slide breakdown, then click any cited slide and the real deck opens right on it. Answers you can actually check.
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