A couple of weeks ago a small cap stock showed up on my India stock screener. My preliminary research yielded that ....
The Masayoshi Son led SoftBank is in a boardroom battle to save its investment in Snapdeal, which is well known to us...
Whosoever dreamed up Ola Select & Ola Play for ANI Technologies (DBA Ola Cabs) should be given a raise & ...
Last week Indian startups raised $1.55 billion compared to $433 million in the comparable previous week period.
Last 2 weeks, 73 startups raised $843 million year-to-date, the month of January has seen a steady funding momentum as Indian startups have raised more than $1.50 billion in total capital.
Last week 27 start-ups raised $567 million. Given the record-breaking year of 2021 in terms of fund inflow and the emergence of unicorns for the Indian start-up ecosystem, the early signs of 2022 give hope that this momentum may continue.
Last week 28 startups raised $705 million; the slowdown in China has only increased the confidence in India!
Last two weeks 68 startups raised $2.3 billion; our ecosystem is on a sustained bull run now. Just when it seems like there could be a dip, a slew of startups raise...
Last week 27 startups raised $847 million; the impressive number streak continues with 113 startups raising in the previous 28 days!
Last week 36 startups raised $761 million! The number of deals taking place continued climbing, and...
Last week 30 startups raised $293 million; while the total funding amount fell, most heartening is the number of deals...
Prashant graduated from IIT Madras worked with HSBC and Capital One in the United States before coming back to...
Last week 19 startups raised $46 million; the numbers indicate a dip, but it just a temporary lull. This fire burns...
Yesterday, I pitched 3 family offices to invest in our fund. Oddly enough, I got the same question in each of those...
13 early-stage startups raised over $20 million last week, with the overall funding boosting up to $172 million, accordi...
I have (for a very long time) said that angel networks in India are in a deadly spiral. I had not (yet) discovered "why"...
Last week, the ecosystem breached the 2 deals/day average yet again with 15 startups raising $168 million. The recen...
It has been several weeks since our ecosystem breached the 2 deals/day average with 17 startups raising $106 million...
Last week, the ecosystem dropped below the 2 equity deals/day average, with 9 startups raising $12 million. It is the...
Maximojo offers cloud-based tools that provide hotels the means to setup & manage their hotel inventory distribution...
For the past several weeks, the ecosystem is plateauing at barely double-digit transactions per week with 10 startups...
BrandIdea is a business intelligence tool for marketing and sales information. They offer a SaaS-based business ...
Squeakee Media Private Limited was a provider of cloud-based ecommerce store builder on a subscription model...
Triggero was an enterprise rewards and recognition services platform. Triggero worked on a SAAS model and was a...
Last week 27 startups raised $847 million; the impressive number streak continues with 113 startups raising in the...
Another week where we maintain the 2 deals a day average with 18 startups raising $31 million. There are green shoo...
BookMyCab is an on-demand taxi service with options to rent metered city taxis as well as from their own fleet of cabs...
While the funds raised by India’s startup ecosystem (barring Jio) fell, it was heartening to note that we continued to...
Fynd is an online retailer of multi-category fashion products. Fynd's product catalog includes apparel, footwear,...
As most of India reopened, so did the funding lords! There was a marked increase in the number of startups that raise...
Rolocule Games is a game development studio creating realistic, casual, and social video games for tablets and...
Exotel is a cloud telephony(IVR, missed call management.)service provider offering various products for a hassle-free ...
In the past several weeks, I have been astonished at the size of seed rounds that founders expect to raise in their first...
Fundraising activity continues to slow down; therefore, my team and I had a tough time shortlisting our favorite picks...
While redoing our website, I accidentally stumbled upon an interesting piece of information.
As I approach my personal goal of personally investing in 100 startups within 10 years...
The history of sports and wars is replete with moments of inspiration.
After a lull in funding to gauge the impact of the Covid19 pandemic, the fundraising activity is starting to pick up.
After the turbulence of the last few weeks, I finally carved out the time to share my funding picks of Week...
The aftermath of the pandemic spread of the Covid-19 virus has hit financial markets where it hurts the most – their...
I just got back from my trip to Kolkata which was planned in order to introduce the founding team of an upcoming investment to...
One of my favorite entrepreneurial movies is Rocket Singh Salesman of the Year.
On 18th December, 2017, I had written about the run-up in Nasdaq listed Longfin (Ticker: LFIN) as proof of a crypto bubble.
At a personally & professionally challenging time in the 2nd quarter of 2016, I went out and stayed at Damodar Farms in Vapi for a short while.
In the past few weeks, I have met several founders whose DCF valuations for their early start-ups were made by...
2018 started off with a bang for Artha India Ventures.
Exactly a year ago, I wrote about a growing malaise in the angel investment ecosystem in the post You are NOT an angel investor.
Over the past 6 months, there are many founders who have received an email telling them that we are passing on the investment opportunity.
This past Saturday, I was at a IIT-Kharagpur as a panelist in their 2018 version of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
This was one of those weeks that reminded me why I love my job so much. I am lucky to have access to some ..
An entrepreneur’s primary role is to sell. At any given point the entrepreneur is selling whether it is
There is a lack of reliable sources for procurement of farm fresh produce & it’s impossible to buy directly from farmers without traveling to farms. High consumer demand of farm fresh produce is hugely under-served.
During my interview with Sudhir Chowdhary of the Financial Express in August 2017, I emphasized my...
In the past couple of days I’ve met a number of Venture Capitalists, Limited Partners and He...
Today my online behaviour is tracked constantly to create a virtual persona.
There is a growing set of investors who believe that their investment has bought them the right to turn the founder...
Uber & Ola have finally found out that their long-term discounting campaign only helped in distorting the market.
Many founders, angel networks, brokers, co-investors and others who we interact with ask us why we take so much time doing our due diligence so here is my answer to that.
Two weeks back I was sitting in on a pitch wherein a healthy snacks company was looking at raising its seed round from us.
There is a worrying trend that is growing in my email & LinkedIn inbox...
I thought of writing this post almost two weeks back when I saw the movie for a second time...
Monday’s post, the math of early stage venture capital sparked off interesting debates on various forums.
Apurva and I visited the office of a startup that we are co-leading the investment into with a global angel network.
Today I met with an entrepreneur in the travel space that kept reiterating that they wanted to grow organically...
Each day brings with it an opportunity to learn and share.
On a given day there are at least 10-15 investment proposals in my inboxes at LinkedIn, Facebook and Office365.
Solve this... Person V does consulting for Person G
The advent of the internet has moved the power of PR from the hands of companies into the hands of...
Founders are funny people. The good founder will prepare elaborate excel charts, aggregate research reports and
Yesterday I finally denied investment into a company that my heart was set on but my mind wasn’t as it went against our ...
The bloodletting in the Indian startup ecosystem continues with hotel-booking app RoomsTonite shutting shop on the...
In a country of 1.3 billion people the penetration of credit cards has been abysmal.
97% of Indian Small & Medium Businesses were paid late in 2015…
96% of all startups shutdown within 10 years of “starting-up.”
I spent most of my Sunday at IIT Bombay as one of the 14 investors in the Ten Minute Million event.
There were 15 deals in week 5 of 2020 that were available on Traxcn, Inc42, and YourStory...
There were a lot of excellent deals last week for me to choose my picks. After shortlisting 15 deals from Traxcn, Inc42, and YourStory...
The first week of 2020 was understandably slow for deal announcements with Yourstory reporting a 73% drop in funding from last week.
A couple of months ago, I found my jaw hitting the floor during a start-up pitch.
Over the weekend, I was a guest of Baljinder Sharma, aserial entrepreneur and a highly respected individual...
Every Monday, I will share my favorite early-stage startups that have raised money (i.e., <Series C) in the last week.
I am back with my favorite funding news of last week!
Waking up to the unearthing of a 2,000 crore scam at Karvy Stock Broking was precisely the sort of news fintech ...
Hey founders, today I’m going to address acrucial topic:
Recently, I had a long conversation with someone about the challenges I faced working with an obstinate founder that...
There are very few things that I do not love about venture capital but taking a founder through due diligence is one of ...
A few days ago while rushing into a meeting, I heard someone call out my name.
In many cases, food-tech founders extend their line of products to capture as many customers as possible,...
An LP who had read AVF’s monthly newsletter inquired why we had rejected one of the deals based on the fact that the..
An entrepreneur’s primary role is to sell. At any given point the entrepreneur is selling whether it is...
Today I met with an entrepreneur in the travel space that kept reiterating that they wanted to grow organically and...
A comment on my post yesterday inspired my post for today.
A few days ago, I saw a Facebook live interview of Confirmtkt's founders, Dinesh & Sripad.
Yesterday, a founder was having a tough time trying to convince me on his business plan.
This week’s video was recommended by Karishma so a big thank you to her!
I would rate the budget presented by FM Piyush Goyal, a solid 4 out of 5.
Last night, I went for dinner with Mikhil where we got into the debate on whether VCs should be “founder friendly”...
The Indian Television industry is undergoing a massive change. Except for Shark Tank & Suits that are available on Ind...
I am very interested in start-ups that have a subscription based revenue model and will be quick to pounce on any...
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