Deployment Inc

The purest bet yet that 'FDE' is a business model, not just a role: Cars24 spun out Deployment Inc — India's first dedicated forward-deployed AI firm — with $5M, an OpenAI Select Partner badge, and a plan to hire ~50 engineers (mostly FDEs) in a single month. Led by a Cars24 exec and an ex-xAI backend engineer, embedding pods inside India's largest enterprises. Founding-team leverage, in Gurugram, not SF.

The management-track seat at India's first pure-play FDE firm — lead pods across concurrent enterprise deployments while staying hands-on. A founding-manager role at a $5M Cars24-backed, OpenAI-partnered venture that's stampeding to ~50 hires this month: you build the org that defines what an Indian FDE team even looks like.