November 2025 - Gaining Momentum

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Dear Edventures community,

November has been about building on the momentum we had in October, and to set us up for a more fruitful last month of the year. From welcoming our new Product Designer, Noor, to making steady progress on the Alpha 4.0 redesign, testing and improving our AI behaviour, and exploring HPC resources with fantastic support from RISE, the month has been a mix of strategic planning and hands-on execution. Alongside this, we’ve strengthened community connections, moved several partnership conversations forward, and set the stage for a strong product launch in December.

If you’re just getting to know us, here’s a quick recap

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Read on to discover this month’s latest updates and milestones. If you’re in a rush, below are the highlights you need to know about from last month.

TL;DR

• We welcomed a new Product Designer, Noor

• Work on the redesigns of the Alpha 3.0 to 4.0 started properly and has been progressing steadily.

• Expected (maybe over-optimistically) deadline for the Alpha 4.0 was early December. Right now it looks like we’ll be able to deliver the updates by mid December instead.

• Aadarsh has been setting up a proper development environment for us for the first time. Much needed now ahead of the Alpha rework

• We’ve secured EUHPC resources and have started playing around with them to better understand how to structure our code and containerised images when deploying the real models we want to train

• November saw us sing one MOUs with JAHA, Zambia (600 users) BUT we have 5-10 warm leads in India that we expect to sign soon. 2 of these are out for review by the counterpart.

• Chetana has been hard at work on setting up a system for how we test and grade our prompts and agentic structure, and started putting this system to work. This is to directly and quickly improve the behaviour of Anna.

• Alex spent most of November in Goa, meeting with the 3 major incubators in the state, and MOUs are all on the table. One is pending review, while the other two await the 4.0 launch.

• Throughout November, 100+ distributions partner leads have been made pan-India

📣 Team News

We’re thrilled to welcome Noor Mujassim, our new Product Designer. At just 20 years old, Noor already has 3–4 years of experience designing production-level applications and digital products. She impressed us with her vision for Edventures during the interview process, and her ability to take designs from concept to real code makes her an incredible addition. Noor holds a degree in computer science and will also support frontend development, helping us accelerate the Alpha 4.0 redesign and implementation.

⚙️ Product Evolution

With Noor on board, work on Alpha 4.0 is officially underway. The current Alpha has its challenges in both UX and UI, which we can directly relate to the slow adoption it has received so far. This redesign addresses those needs head on. In November, Noor conducted ~10 user interviews, researched data on first-time founder basic needs (we’ll share these findings in an upcoming blog post), and finalised the desktop Alpha 4.0 onboarding, while main app UI remain a work in progress, although a solid baseline is there from the design test she did during the recruitment interviews.

Noor also developed a design system based on Google’s Material 3, customised with our colours, fonts, and shapes. Onboarding flows are being updated, and we have pinned down prioritised features which have clarified which features will go into Alpha 4.0 versus a later Beta version.

Chetana has been hard at work establishing a system for testing and grading prompts and agent workflows. This system is already in action, helping us improve Anna’s performance in a more data-driven way. Work on RAG knowledge-base infrastructure is also underway, as this will help with Anna’s localised understanding of a country and industry, specific to the user. For proof of concept, we’re starting with India.

Meanwhile, Aadarsh has been steadily advancing backend development: separating conversations so users can have multiple threads per business project, establishing a proper dev environment, and building the foundation for our RAG infrastructure. On top of this he’s also made updates to our end user automations and notifications, such as team member invites and Action Point reminders.

On top of all that, we’ve started experimenting with the HPC resources we’ve received via ENCCS (EU), with support from the Research Institute of Sweden (RISE) which has been outstanding! Shout out to Erik Holmström for the initial outreach and promoting these resources to us, and Daniel Medeiros for making the onboarding of these systems smooth and clear, giving us confidence in how we’ll structure containerised deployments for real model training.

🌍 Community

The JAHA project ran on November 17th and 19th. Response has been positive and follow-on discussions are to be held shortly.

Outreach efforts continued throughout November, primarily on LinkedIn but also through some on-the-ground events and visits in Goa. Two MOUs are currently under review, and one MOU has already been signed. Apart from these, we have roughly 10+ more strong leads in the pipeline which we aim to secure soon.

We also partnered with Vruksh Ecosystem Foundation for their Misfits community and business challenge. The Misfits Initiative supports social impact innovators across 20 South Asian regions, reaching over 300K people. This challenge stretches into December, so more updates will be shared on this in next month’s update.

💰 Funding

We decided to also partner with Vruksh as our local main partner for the Eureka Innowwide application. We started investor outreach, with a focus on angels, but the real effort will be focused on December as we still need to strengthen our traction in terms of signed MOUs and a new Alpha UI. We want to show the new Alpha 4.0 traction before pitching too many investors.

👀 What’s in the pipeline for next month?

• Launch of Alpha 4.0
• Signing several warm lead MOUs
• Continued outreach to investors alongside distribution partner conversations

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On that note, I want to wrap this month’s newsletter by thanking you for your continued support, and I look forward to sharing more updates with you next mont

Stay foolish, stay ambitious!

Alexander and the Edventures team