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Generative AI SaaS startup Onetab expands India operations
Mumbai: Onetab, the generative AI SaaS startup kick-started by Saket Dandotia and Alok Patil has appointed three new senior members to strengthen its India operations. Harish Chouhan joins as Sr team lead, Pratish Gopinath comes on board as VP – corporate development and Ankita Phanse joins as head HR – strategy & planning of Onetab starting this financial year.
This team expansion comes as a step towards Onetab’s long-term growth strategy across India and global markets.
Harish Chouhan comes with over 17 plus years of industry expertise which spans across multiple domains. He holds strong leadership acumen that motivates cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality results leveraging his familiarity with agile tools like Jira and Trello. Prior to Onetab, he was with Panamax Infotech, Linkites Pvt Ltd, and InfoBeans Systems India Pvt Ltd. At Onetab he will be collaborating closely with the leadership team where he will contribute to strategic planning and execution along with fostering innovation, promoting excellence, and staying abreast of market trends and customer needs. He will play a key part in propelling Onetab toward its growth objectives and solidifying its position as an industry leader.
Pratish Gopinath will be based out of Bangalore where he will be spearheading the Bangalore office opening and hiring process. He will also look into identifying and executing strategic partnerships, investor and VC relations and hosting Onetab’s latest initiative One Bharat across multiple cities across India.
Ankita Phanse comes with over seven years of comprehensive experience in and around the scope of HR operations and generalist HR affairs. She holds an MBA with dual specialization in HR and finance, and her key role at Onetab is to leverage her expertise to develop and implement HR policies/processes and programs fostering a positive work culture at OneTab.
Speaking on the new appointments, Onetab founder Saket Dandotia said, “I am excited for Onetab as we welcome Harish, Pratish and Ankita onboard. At Onetab we are currently on a growing spree, and we need a strong team with matches our long-term vision. With our new property, OneBharat, now activated and other activities in the pipeline, this step of hiring senior team members comes in sync with our future goals.”
Onetab aims to provide seamless communication and collaboration with its proprietary custom LLM model, designed to revolutionize the way teams interact and work together. This feature of the start-up sets it apart from the current competition in the market.
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Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
