My Funding Picks For Last Week (W29)
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked Tech plays as my favorites.
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked Tech plays as my favorites.
Every Monday, I sit with my team to review the funding activity of the previous week. From that list, I pick out three companies that I would have loved to invest in or find founders that are doing similar things
6 months ago, I wrote about the real cost of customer acquisition after visiting the offices of a prospective startup that we were evaluating. After writing the blog, I provided the founder with explicit feedback on why I was passing
There is a slow recovery in the funding of early-stage startups. We are still a long way away from the heydays of 2018-19, but the growing pace of activity in angel networks & early-stage funds are promising signs. After shortlisting the
Fundraising activity continues to slow down; therefore, my team and I had a tough time shortlisting our favorite picks with just a handful of deals to choose from. After shortlisting all early-stage deals activity for week 18 from Traxcn, Inc42,
United Mobile Apps (UMA) developed and published mobile applications software. The company issued software products for mobile devices with a focus on connection management, device management, and data synchronization. UMA marketed its products and services to original device manufacturers throughout
There were 15 deals in week 5 of 2020 that were available on Traxcn, Inc42, and YourStory, I sat with our funding team, and after some enlighting discussions, I have shortlisted my picks to: Name: InterviewBit Amount Raised: $20 million Investors: Tiger Global Management
No one can doubt that the Indian PE/VC ecosystem is going through a golden run. The amount of money flowing into the ecosystem is breaking records –records set just the previous year! If I narrow the PE/VC down to just “start-ups” then Indian start-ups
There are two graphs that will define how 2018 was for the start-up ecosystem in India. !function(e,t,s,i){var n="InfogramEmbeds",o=e.getElementsByTagName("script")[0],d=/^http:/.test(e.location)?"http:":"https:";if(/^/{2}/.test(i)&&(i=d+i),window[n]&&window[n].initialized)window[n].process&&window[n].process();else if(!e.getElementById(s)){var r=e.createElement("script");r.async=1,r.id=s,r.src=i,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,0,"infogram-async","https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js"); This telling graph that I took from a CNBCTV18 article shows that the amount of money raised by Indian start-ups in 2018
I spent most of my Sunday at IIT Bombay as one of the 14 investors in the Ten Minute Miillion event. In its 3rd edition the format is inspired by Shark Tank insomuch that a selected group of investors (and