{"id":950979,"date":"2025-07-30T07:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950979"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:17:27","slug":"perplexitys-aravind-srinivas-backed-astra-shuts-down-citing-market-mistrust-and-internal-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/perplexitys-aravind-srinivas-backed-astra-shuts-down-citing-market-mistrust-and-internal-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity\u2019s Aravind Srinivas-backed Astra shuts down, citing market mistrust and internal split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based AI startup Astra, which branded itself as the \u201cChief of Staff for every Account Executive,\u201d has shut down operations, less than a year after its founding in 2023. The company\u2019s cofounder and CEO, Supreet Hegde, made the announcement via a LinkedIn post, citing strategic misalignment with cofounder Ranjan Rajagopalan as one of the reasons for the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based AI startup Astra, which branded itself as the \u201cChief of Staff for every Account Executive,\u201d has shut down operations, less than a year after its founding in 2023. The company\u2019s cofounder and CEO, Supreet Hegde, made the announcement via a LinkedIn post, citing strategic misalignment with cofounder Ranjan Rajagopalan as one of the reasons for the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}