This founder’s no-code solution secured $4M funding 4 months in

A week in AI is like a year in other industries. I hope these issues become your weekly source of AI information, inspiration, and ideas.

If we haven’t met before, I’m Amanda Smith. I write about AI, the current zeitgeist, and the fascinating folks who are building in this brave new world. 

Good morning. What makes AI Odyssey special is the range of founders we speak to, from genesis to growth stage. The new wave of AI founders blur the traditional path, using both no-code tooling and VC funds. This week’s founder is the perfect example. 

This really is the era of experimentation. Jump in and get building. But first, read this story.

Founded: April 2025 
Team size: 11 
Funding to date: $4 million pre-seed round, led by Cyber Fund

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Sowmay Jain has always had an affinity with emerging tech. At 19, he co-founded a crypto company with his brother, after feeling the limitations of the fintech space. Jain built up a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, Instadapp, backed by big guns like Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan, and has since done four billion in logged assets. It got the brothers a coveted position on India’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022. 

And then AI came along. Jain shifted gears and went full throttle incubating a lot of projects across AI, robotics and biotech through his new innovation company, Upsurge Labs. Bhindi AI came out of this period of experimentation. 

Fun fact: Rexan Wong uses Bhindi to scale his AI tooling suite. 

Jain solved his own pain point. The team was running a lot of automation but there was still a lot of manual work involved in writing and testing scripts. There was a lot of jumping between tabs and apps. 

Bhindi is a single interface that lets users send emails, book flights, check crypto prices, schedule meetings, generate images, run code, search GitHub, and update spreadsheets – in one go. It’s a killer-everything app integrated with 200+ agents. 

Jain believes the next wave of AI apps won’t come from a clear blueprint, but from solving personal workflow challenges where users can express their intent, and AI executes the rest. 

“Your work now is to simply think and prompt, think and prompt,” Jain said. 

“Initially, we were just making the product for ourselves to see how we could simply automate our stuff and make it work.” But along the way, he saw the broad B2B application potential – and others did, too. 

Cyber Fund, a crypto focused fund that had invested in Instadapp wanted to be a part of the new thing Jain was doing. “We never went out to raise funds. We didn’t talk to any other VC. They were helpful in our previous startup, so we thought it would be good to have their support again.” 

Jain said going down the VC path helps add credibility to what they’re working on because someone is trusting them with their funds. It’s also good to have extra cash to expand faster. 

“It’s rare to find good founders. If you’re ambitious and obsessed, fundraising is quite easy. It’s a VC’s job to find projects, not the other way around,” he said. 

They built Bhindi in 10 days, with AI-powered tools like Cursor. They didn’t use any manual code.

Like many no-code products do, Bhindi was released with a Tweet and launch video. Now they’re also on Reddit and YouTube – where they’ve amassed a whopping 440,000 subscribers from four videos.

Jain chose to keep Bhindi free for months to collect feedback and only turned on paid about a month ago. 

Their users are mostly in India and the U.S. Users fall into two groups: Those who use work tools like Google Docs, and those who want to create videos and images. “As a founder, I’m speaking to as many people as possible to discover more use cases,” he said. They’re getting thousands of sign-ups per day, but the conversion ratio is low. 

The most important metric Bhindi tracks is how many people are coming to the platform and doing agentic tasks, rather than just what they do on ChatGPT. For example, talking to it then actually sending an email. 

“The issue is people are not educated on how to use such products, so we need to spend more time improving the onboarding and showing them exactly how to use it,” he said. 

“I haven’t gone onto github.com in ages. I go to Bhindi if I want to do anything on GitHub. It’s already replacing the apps I used.” Users have to adapt to this new way of using apps, which is a critical challenge all agentic solutions face.  

Jain is hosting events, collaborating with tech creators who can educate users, and starting to talk to more corporations about how they can use Bhindi internally as a productivity tool. Going global is a future focus and Jain is travelling more in the coming months to attend conferences, meet stakeholders, and spread the word in Silicon Valley. 

While AI is evolving at breakneck speed, Jain is keeping up with a fast development time and a spirit of constant iteration. He does this by looking for two traits when he hires: How well a person can prompt AI and how hungry they are. “Being open to exploring and experimenting with tools on every front, from development to distribution, is key.” 

For the first time in history, mindset is more important than skillset. “It’s the best time to be alive,” Jain concluded. 

You don’t need a big team. You can do it with 2-3 people. Wild times.

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Until next week,
Amanda

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