The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
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The Desi VC is a weekly podcast hosted by Akash Bhat, devoted to interviewing angel investors and venture capitalists investing in tech startups in India across all sectors and of all check sizes. Tune in to hear India's leading investors discuss current trends in venture capital and touch upon topics such as fund-raising, valuation, pricing, business models, exit scenarios, sustainable..
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
4d ago
Shwetank Verma is the co-founder of Leo Capital, a venture capital fund investing in companies inIndiaand South East Asia. Recent investments include CoLearn (edtech), WayForward (mental health), CoverGenius (Insurtech) and IndiaGold (Digital Gold). Leo Capital is backed by institutional investorsfrom Singapore and Silicon Valley.
Prior to Leo Capital, he led Open Innovation for MetLife Asia and was a part of the senior management team of LumenLab, MetLife's innovation consultancy. At LumenLab, he advised MetLife country CEOs andsenior leaders on growth, startup collaboration, culture change a ..read more
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
1M ago
Prayank Swaroop is a Partner at Accel, and joined the firm in 2011.
He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and SaaS investments. Some of the investments led by him are - Aavenir, Bizongo, Maverix, OnsiteGo, Securden, Slintel, Skeps, and Zetwerk.
Prior to Accel, he worked at Adobe and Standard Chartered Bank in India and Singapore. He held positions across engineering, product marketing, pre-sales, and product management.
He has an integrated master's degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
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The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
1M ago
Priya Saiprasad is a General Partner at Touring Capital, a fund investing in enterprise-focused AI powered global startups. She co-founded Touring after 13 years in venture capital, M&A and enterprise technology.
She was most recently a Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, where she led investments into category-defining software companies including Pixis, Vendr, Observe.ai, CommerceIQ, Sendoso and Skedulo.
Previously, Priya was at Mayfield Fund focused on early-growth investments, and a founding member of M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), where she led investments in Go1, Workboard, PandaDoc, E ..read more
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
5M ago
Prayank Swaroop is a Partner at Accel, and joined the firm in 2011.
He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and SaaS investments. Some of the investments led by him are - Aavenir, Bizongo, Maverix, OnsiteGo, Securden, Slintel, Skeps, and Zetwerk.
Prior to Accel, he worked at Adobe and Standard Chartered Bank in India and Singapore. He held positions across engineering, product marketing, pre-sales, and product management.
He has an integrated master's degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
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The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
5M ago
Priya Saiprasad is a General Partner at Touring Capital, a fund investing in enterprise-focused AI powered global startups. She co-founded Touring after 13 years in venture capital, M&A and enterprise technology.
She was most recently a Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, where she led investments into category-defining software companies including Pixis, Vendr, Observe.ai, CommerceIQ, Sendoso and Skedulo.
Previously, Priya was at Mayfield Fund focused on early-growth investments, and a founding member of M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), where she led investments in Go1, Workboard, PandaDoc, E ..read more
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
5M ago
Prayank Swaroop is a Partner at Accel, and joined the firm in 2011.
He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and SaaS investments. Some of the investments led by him are - Aavenir, Bizongo, Maverix, OnsiteGo, Securden, Slintel, Skeps, and Zetwerk.
Prior to Accel, he worked at Adobe and Standard Chartered Bank in India and Singapore. He held positions across engineering, product marketing, pre-sales, and product management.
He has an integrated master's degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
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The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
5M ago
Rohit Bansal is the Co-founder and COO of Snapdeal, one of the largest online marketplaces in India. The company has raised over $1.7B from eBay, Kalaari Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital, BlackRock, Temasek Holdings and SoftBank.
He is also the Co-Founder of Titan Capital, and an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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Episode Notes:
Introduction (2:00)
What motivated Rohit to become an entrepreneur (2:57)
Why is entrepreneurship on the rise in India (10:30)
How did Rohit get into investing (14:30)
How did and d ..read more
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
5M ago
Shubham Goel is the Co-foudner and Co-CEO of Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. The company has raised over $120M in funding from Menlo Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Pear VC and Advance Venture Partners. Prior to Affinity, Shubham completed his BS in Computer Science at Stanford University.
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Episode notes:
What made Shubham pick entrepreneurship (2:00)
Propensity of risk increasing as the company grows (6:08)
The journey until the ah-ha moment (10:06)
The aha-moment (17:00)
Unlocking the operator and leader persona as a founder (25:15)
Getting the most out of ..read more
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
5M ago
Shubham Goel is the Co-foudner and Co-CEO of Affinty, a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. The company has raised over $120M in funding from Menlo Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Pear VC and Advance Venture Partners. Prior to Affinity, Shubham completed his BS in Computer Science at Stanford University.
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Episode notes:
What made Shubham pick entrepreneurship (2:00)
Propensity of risk increasing as the company grows (6:08)
The journey untill the ah-ha moment (10:06)
The aha-moment (17:00)
Unlocking the operator and leader persona as a founder (25:15)
Getting the most out of ..read more
The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC
7M ago
Sumeet Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of LEAD, a detect company helping digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families. Before co-founding LEAD, Sumeet was Chief Executive Officer at Zee Learn (2007-2012). He transformed the institution from a pre-school franchise company to an education company with a presence in pre-schools and K-10 schools, and science activity and animation classes. Prior to that, Sumeet spent eight years at Procter & Gamble Singapore, where he was involved in in brand management, lead ..read more