Live entertainment in India is growing faster than the infrastructure underneath it. Bigger stages, bigger tours, bigger audiences and platforms that are still built for a smaller version of the industry.
Varun Khare has spent the last decade watching this gap open up from the inside. As former COO of Paytm Insider, he helped scale the platform nearly 9x and take it to over 170 cities before its acquisition by Zomato in the USD 250M District transaction. He's now the founder of @get.thumpN - India's first AI-native live entertainment platform, being built to close that gap: pairing intelligent discovery with human curation, and treating every ticket as the start of a relationship, not the end of a checkout flow.