Enterprise AI Builders Meetup: Deeply Technical products. Built from India. Shipped globally.
Who you’d meet
Rohit Agarwal, Co-founder & CEO of Portkey. Portkey is the unified control plane for production AI, handling gateway, observability, and governance. Before Portkey, Rohit built Framebench (acquired by Freshworks) and led product at Pepper Content.
Ayush Garg, Co-founder & CTO of Portkey. Built the unified control plane that routes production AI traffic for 24,000+ companies. Previously at Pepper Content and PubNinja.
Krishna Mehra, AI Partner at Elevation Capital. Previously led engineering at Meta and Cohesity. Co-founded Capillary Technologies, one of India's earliest cross-border SaaS companies. Angel investor in 45+ companies.
Poorvi Vijay, Principal at Elevation Capital. Led investments in Composio, UnifyApps, Portkey, Noon, Adopt AI,Maxim AI, Murf AI and others across the AI infra and middleware stack. Previously spent several years at Amazon building Alexa voices globally. MBA from Harvard Business School, IIT Guwahati alumna.
What we'll get into:
Elevation Thesis:
First up: Elevation's Enterprise AI thesis. Where the market is moving, where we are placing bets, and how we think about the India-US corridor.
Fireside Chat:
Portkey processes over a trillion tokens in production AI traffic every day. From that vantage point, Rohit and Ayush and Krishna will get into:
What enterprise AI adoption actually looks like at scale, and where the infra gaps show up
The shift from open-source traction to enterprise revenue, and what changes when you cross that line
Building distribution with US engineering teams while being based in India
The governance and reliability problems that buyers care about but builders underestimate
Demo slots
We're reserving 3-4 demo slots for attendees. If you're building something and want to show it, tell us in the registration form. Keep it tight: 5 minutes, live product, no slides.
Agenda
5:00 PM: Registrations & Check-in
5:30 PM: Elevation Enterprise AI thesis
5:45 PM: Fireside chat: Rohit & Ayush (Portkey) x Krishna Mehra (Elevation Capital)
6:30 PM: Live demos from builders (3-4 products, no slides)
7:00 PM: Food and Jamming!
8:00 PM: Close
Who should apply
Builders working on AI infra, dev-tools, middleware, and platform layers, selling (or planning to sell) to technical buyers globally.