--- title: Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build... description: Serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is self-funding a $30 million bet on Neo, a new enterprise work platform designed from scratch for the AI era. Neo combines... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/indian-tech-tycoon-bets-30m-of-his-own-money-to-build-ai-alternative-to-microsoft-office-stctavjpf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office | daily.dev og:description: Serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is self-funding a $30 million bet on Neo, a new enterprise work platform designed from scratch for the AI era. Neo combines... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/indian-tech-tycoon-bets-30m-of-his-own-money-to-build-ai-alternative-to-microsoft-office-stctavjpf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/StctAvjPf.png og:image:alt: Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is self-funding a $30 million bet on Neo, a new enterprise work platform designed from scratch for the AI era. Neo combines project management, documents, file storage, and AI into a single product, positioning itself as an alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Turakhia argues that legacy workplace software cannot be meaningfully upgraded with AI bolt-ons and must be rebuilt entirely. Built in just three months using AI-assisted development, Neo is currently in internal use across Turakhia's companies and plans to roll out to mid-sized businesses soon. The startup has 18 engineers and aims to grow to 45 by year-end. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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