A new AI divide is plaguing companies; Reinventing logistics for D2C brands

For SaaS firms, the end-user has changed. Today, humans work alongside digital co-workers and AI agents, forcing software companies to build products as much for machines as for people.

May 8, 2025 - 03:32

A new AI divide is plaguing companies; Reinventing logistics for D2C brands

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The tool is so sophisticated that the company doesn’t even recommend that customers specify the demographics they’d like to target. Meta’s tools can find interested users better than human marketers can, claimed CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Interesting times ahead for the global advertising industry.

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Lastly, global egg prices have increased over the past few years due to several factors, including avian flu outbreaks as well as rising fuel and labour costs.

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In today’s newsletter, we will talk about

The new AI divide
Reinventing logistics for D2C brands
Inside Simple Energy’s $350M IPO plan

Here’s your trivia for today: What Shakespeare play inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World?

SaaS

The new AI divide

For SaaS firms, the end-user has changed. Today, humans work alongside digital co-workers and AI agents, forcing software companies to build products as much for machines as for people.

This new intersection of AI and SaaS has led founders to rewrite their playbooks overnight. Some founders, with their early experiments, have revamped their entire positioning overnight, while others wondered whether a rebrand was enough.

Key takeaways:

“While we’re innovating rapidly, not all customers are immediately ready to adopt cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI and LLM models. Some need more time, clarity, and confidence to embrace these changes fully,” says Mobavenue MD and CEO Ishank Joshi.
According to Deloitte, organisational change tends to be slower than technological change, no matter how quickly AI advances. Most organisations also expect it will take at least a year to resolve challenges like user adoption, governance, and AI training.
“Most foundation model companies are very opinionated about how they offer their services, and it often involves data moving from one source to another on the cloud, which most enterprises are not comfortable with,” says Soham Ganatra, Founder of Composio.

Funding Alert

Startup: Routematic

Amount: $40M

Round: Series C

Startup: Archian Foods

Amount: Rs 200 Cr

Round: Series B

Startup: Posha

Amount: $8M

Round: Series A

Startup

Reinventing logistics for D2C brands

DAAKit, derived from ‘daakia’, the Hindi word for postman, is a smart logistics startup helping smaller brands match the speed of ecommerce giants. It helps brands decentralise inventory through a network of 10 warehouses across the country, including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and beyond.

Point-to-point:

“If a customer in Lucknow places an order, we shouldn’t ship it from Delhi. We’ll fulfil it from Lucknow itself or Ghaziabad. That’s how we cut delivery time from five days to one, and reduce logistics costs by 20–30%,” says founder Chandan Singh Ghugtyal.
DAAKit’s proprietary warehouse management system lets sellers manage inventory, track expiry dates, automate replenishments, and monitor stock across all locations in real-time.
It has also developed an intelligent courier allocation engine. It enables brands to choose delivery partners based on cost, service-level agreement performance, and serviceability.

Chandan Singh Ghugtyal: Powering Fast D2C Deliveries with DAAKit — Chandan Singh Ghugtyal, Founder of DAAKit, is transforming how D2C brands manage logistics by enabling same-day and next-day delivery through a smart, decentralised warehousing network. With a tech-first approach and deep industry experience, he’s helping brands deliver faster and own their customer relationships.

Electric Vehicle

Inside Simple Energy’s $350M IPO plan

Bengaluru-based EV maker Simple Energy plans to come out with an initial public offering between Q2 and Q3 of FY27 with a target to raise Rs 3,000 crore ($350 million)

Simple Energy says it has achieved a 500% year-on-year growth. The company is targeting a revenue of Rs 800 crore in FY26 and aims to surpass Rs 1,500 crore in cumulative revenue over the next 18 months.

Ambition:

Unlike other EV startups, Simple Energy does not operate an online platform for customers to place orders. “We cannot give the service support required even if we can deliver the scooter; so we are looking at the brick-and-mortar model,” Co-founder and CEO Suhar Rajkumar told YourStory.
While Simple Energy is bullish on electric scooters, it has no immediate plans to branch out into electric motorcycles. “I think the bike market will take some time and we want to be observant of it,” said Rajkumar.
Simple Energy expects to use 30% of its IPO proceeds for R&D, 50% for general operations, market and product expansion, and the remaining to expand its factories and other production capabilities.

News & updates

AI bot: Mistral AI on Wednesday launched its Le Chat chatbot for corporate use, and its CEO said the French startup has tripled its revenue in the last 100 days, with demand coming particularly from outside the United States.
Disney park: A new Disney theme park is coming to Abu Dhabi. The Walt Disney Co has reached an agreement with immersive destination and experiences company Miral to bring a park and resort to Yas Island in the United Arab Emirates.
Netflix revamp: Netflix said on Wednesday it plans to revamp its TV app interface and introduce generative AI to the iOS mobile platform, allowing users to ask for content in natural and everyday language.

What Shakespeare play inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World?

Answer: The Tempest.

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