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August 3, 2026 GP Perspective

Agentic AI Is Here. Enterprises Aren't Ready. Here's Where That Creates Opportunity.

The debate around agentic AI has quietly shifted — the question is no longer whether autonomous agents become the dominant way software gets built and work gets done. In this piece, Sri Purisai draws on conversations from UC Berkeley RDI's Agentic AI Summit to examine four themes defining the next decade: why infrastructure is being rebuilt from the silicon up, why governance is the real bottleneck (not capability), how enterprises are bracing for a restructured org chart, and where the open vs. closed model debate is actually heading.

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Sri Purisai — Founder & Managing Director

June 28, 2026 GP Perspective

AI Doesn't Need the Car Keys Yet — It Needs a Learner's Permit

Companies handed AI the car keys. Ford, IBM, Klarna — quarter after quarter, they're calling the old driver back. Here, Maya Gadhvi examines why the organizations moving fastest on AI displacement are now paying the highest price to reverse it — and what a governance case for human-AI partnership actually looks like from inside the venture capital seat.

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Maya Gadhvi — General Partner

March 12, 2026 Market Intelligence

Where Institutional Money Is Moving in 2026

Every serious allocator walking into 2026 knows the same things — $11 trillion in global debt maturing, AI reshaping infrastructure demand, private credit filling the gap left by retreating banks. Knowing is not the hard part. The hard part is moving from awareness to allocation with genuine conviction. In this piece, Sri Purisai examines the four structural plays driving institutional capital in 2026: private credit, digital infrastructure, private equity carve-outs, and selective real estate — and the geography question that serious allocators can no longer ignore.

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Sri Purisai — Founder & Managing Director

February 28, 2026 GP Perspective

How We Underwrite

At Chakra, diligence isn't a checklist we run after we decide we like a company — it's the process through which we decide. In this piece, Maya Gadhvi looks at how the fund evaluates teams and structure, why experience on the other side of these decisions changes the questions we ask, and what responsible early-stage investing actually looks like.

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Maya Gadhvi — General Partner