About

#DamaniTalks brings the best of entrepreneurs and investors for their candid insights on funding or founding startups. The show features exciting people doing unique things in the startup ecosystem globally!

#DamaniTalks is hosted by Anirudh A Damani aka aD, a successful 4th generation entrepreneur and Managing Partner of Artha Venture Fund (AVF). He is also a 2nd gen investor from the Mumbai-based Damani family.

Anirudh started investing in and mentoring early-stage founders through his family office’s alternative investment arm, Artha India Ventures. His initial investments included multi-bagger investments in OYO Rooms, Tala, Exotel,Purplle, Coutloot, Mobilewalla, Beardo, ConfirmTkt, and Karza Technologies. His stellar cumulative portfolio now has 85+ investments spread across the globe.

Based on his early-stage investment strategy, Anirudh now also leads India’s first early-stage Micro-VC firm – Artha Venture Fund with a corpus of Rs 220 crores.