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ASYMMETRICBharat Consumer Insights: AI as the Adoption Bridge and Understanding Gen Z & Gen AlphaThe ASYMMETRIC Crew today:Revant Bhate: CEO, Mosaic WellnessShantanu Deshpande: Founder & CEO, Bombay Shaving Company Chirag Taneja: Founder, GoKwikAnand Lunia: Founding Partner, IndiaQuotientChapters0:00 Trailer1:07 Intro & welcome, Anand!1:56 Congratulations to Shantanu on the fundraise!2:40 Kuku FM's 1 Cr paying users4:14 Bharat UX reality & the role of AI9:44 When founders age out of their own users13:37 India is becoming homogeneous16:58 Understanding Gen Z & Gen Alpha21:15 Senior-living gated communities
2025-11-141h 00
Weekend Hustlers - The Mayukh ShowIndia Insights Report 2025 - IndiaQuotientWelcome to Weekend Hustlers!India is changing. Fast. But where should investors and entrepreneurs look next?The India Insights Report 2025 by IndiaQuotient dives into the trends shaping the future. Rural India is consuming more mobile data than ever. Digital services are going prepaid. Education is evolving. Weddings remain an economic powerhouse. And there’s a goldmine waiting in consumer brands, manufacturing, and the kids' market. This report doesn’t just analyze the present—it maps the opportunities of tomorrow.So, if you're building for India, what’s the next big bet? And will you be r...
2025-03-1640 min
Creative Trends2025 Tech Investment TrendsThree prominent organizations, a16z, Y Combinator, and IndiaQuotient, offer perspectives on promising tech startup ideas for 2025. a16z focuses broadly on AI's impact across various sectors, from energy and healthcare to consumer applications and finance. Y Combinator emphasizes government, manufacturing, and chip technologies, along with stablecoins and new job creation opportunities. IndiaQuotient targets the Indian market, highlighting opportunities in consumer internet, Web3, branding, fintech, and agriculture. Each source presents a diverse range of investment themes reflecting current technological trends and market demands.
2024-12-2735 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 19 - Building One of India’s Leading Accounting Software Stacks - ft. Sumit Agarwal (Co-founder & CEO of Vyapar)Founders, your ultimate masterclass on how to build and sell to SMEs is here!
Join us as Sumit Agarwal shares some invaluable insights on how to crack making software for Indian SMEs, drawing from his own experience of building Vyapar—an accounting software stack used by 1 Cr.+ SMEs in India.
Topics covered in this episode:
(0:00) - Episode preview
(1:48) - Who is Sumit Agarwal? How was Vyapar born?
(4:37) - How big is Vyapar?
(5:10) - Who’s purchasing Vyapar’s software?
(5:47) - How has India’s software space ev...
2024-01-0443 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 18 - Building Hardware for India - ft. Farid Ahsan (Co-founder of General Autonomy & ShareChat)What is it like to build hardware for India? How can one iterate quickly in hardware? Why aren’t hardware startups mainstream in India? How can VCs support this space?
All this and more in our latest High IQ podcast ep. with Farid Ahsan, co-founder of General Autonomy, a hardware robotics company for automation and increased productivity, and ShareChat, one of India's leading social media platforms.
Tune in now.
2023-12-2744 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 17 - Building India's Largest Integrated Platform for Real Estate & Mortgages - ft. Tanuj Shori (CEO & Co-founder, Square Yards)In this episode of High IQ podcast, Tanuj Shori, CEO and co-founder of Square Yards - India's largest integrated platform for real estate and mortgages, talks about India's massive Prop Tech opportunity, why you should work with friends and family despite popular opinion, why he is building Square Yards under the radar, and much more! Tune in now.
2023-12-2159 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Panel Discussion: Monetising Consumer Companies Beyond Ads - ft. Anirudh Pandita (Founder, Loco & Pocket Aces), Bhanu Pratap Singh (Co-founder & CEO, FRND), & Jani Pasha (Co-founder & CEO, Lokal)Founders building in the consumer space, your ultimate guide to monetising is here!
Tune into our latest panel discussion to gain insights straight from the monetization journeys of:
1. Anirudh Pandita, founder of Pocket Aces & Loco
Pocket Aces is a leading digital entertainment company in India, & Loco is one of India’s leading live game streaming & esports platforms, with 55 million registered users & 100k+ creators.
2. Bhanu Pratap Singh, CEO & co-founder of FRND
FRND is an audio dating app with over 15 million app installs and 200k+ monthly paying users.
3. Jani Pasha...
2023-12-1448 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Panel Discussion: Building Consumer Companies: 2023 & Beyond - ft. Ankush Sachdeva (Co-founder & CEO, ShareChat & Moj)“In this game, if you don’t have top-notch algorithms and machine learning, you are not on the table.” - Ankush Sachdeva, co-founder and CEO of ShareChat (one of India’s leading social media platforms) and Moj (India’s no. 1 short-video app). Join us as Ankush takes us behind the scenes of running ShareChat and Moj and shares insights on how to crack product market fit, how to build teams, how to deal with competition, and much more!
2023-12-0644 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 16 - Building One of India’s Largest Cloud Kitchens - Featuring Ankit Nagori (Founder of Curefoods)Join us as we sit down with Ankit Nagori, founder of Curefoods - the company behind some of India’s beloved food brands like EatFit, CakeZone, Sharief Bhai, Nomad Pizza, etc., and take a deep dive into all things cloud kitchens!
Learn about the unit economics of a good cloud kitchen, how to identify if a food brand has achieved product market fit, the power of multi-brand thinking, the scope of cloud kitchens in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities in India, upcoming trends in India’s food tech market, and much more!
Ankit’s learnings from buildi...
2023-10-161h 08
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 15 - Building a Content, Community, and Classifieds Platform for Small Towns in India - Featuring Jani Pasha & Vipul Chaudhary (Lokal)What can failure teach you?
At one of the lowest points in their lives, Jani Pasha and Vipul Chaudhary, co-founders of Lokal, learned a valuable lesson. When you build a product in isolation without talking to users, it will lead to a product that no one will use. Keeping this in mind, the founders went back to the drawing board, conducted countless user studies, identified a need, and validated it - and that’s how Lokal came about. Today, the app is the go-to hub for updates, content, and classifieds for millions of people in 225 districts in In...
2023-09-1849 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 14 - Building India’s Largest Bike Taxi App - Featuring Aravind Sanka (Rapido)In this episode, Aravind Sanka unravels Rapido’s journey from its early days, when it was difficult to explain the concept of bike taxis to VCs, to being present in 85+ cities, creating earning opportunities for millions of people, and moving 1 Mn+ customers daily. Gain insights into the business of ride-hailing: Is there scope for economies of scale? Is there a network effect? What’s the profile of drivers? How will EVs impact bike taxis?
Aravind Sanka and Anand Lunia also discuss India’s gig economy, what can be built for blue-collar workers, technological changes fueling ride-hailing services' growth...
2023-08-1556 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 13 - From Vision to Execution: LetsTransport's Drive for Innovation - Ft. Sudarshan Ravi Jha (Co-founder, LetsTransport)Entrepreneurial success is often attributed to a combination of vision, expertise, and grit. For Sudarshan Ravi Jha, co-founder of LetsTransport, it is also about immersing oneself deep in the market.
Tune into High IQ Podcast Ep. 13, where Sudarshan shares his journey of building one of India's fastest-growing logistics companies. He shares the challenges he faced along the way, from navigating the complexities of logistics and supply chain management to raising funding from investors.
He also talks about his motivation for creating LetsTransport and his unwavering commitment to solving inefficiencies in the logistics sector in India. Find out how he...
2023-04-1748 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 12 (Part 2) - From Humble Beginnings to Phenomenal Success - Ft. Ishendra Agarwal (Co-founder, GIVA)02:00 - Offline expansion and shift from online to omnichannel
05:06 - Battling tumult with changes in business
08:23 - Experiments adapted while offline expansion and general approach
14:45 - Problems faced outside of revenue and metrics used for tracking products and services
17:17 - Benchmarking performance against companies such as Zara and Tanishq
20:00 - Style of building the early team and co-team members
2023-03-3126 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 12 (Part 1) - From Humble Beginnings to Phenomenal Success - Ft. Ishendra Agarwal (Co-founder, GIVA)00:50 - Picking brand as a category and the initial idea behind Giva
06:28 - Unique decisions taken during the pivotal journey
12:08- Evolution of the brand and building Giva
17:50 - Framework for CAC
20:52 - Celebrity campaigns and factors affecting performance marketing
2023-03-3122 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 11 - Demystifying and Busting the Myths Around Fund of Funds (FOF) - Ft. Rohan Paranjpey (MD, Waterfield Advisors)00:17 - Rohan’s journey from a VC to a FoF manager
04:30 - Role of an FoF and what is the value it adds—on access, ticket size, governance, and expertise
09:05 - Explaining the layers of fees and their benefits
17:50 - Evaluating the performance of FoFs in the VC space
21:14 - Ideal VC pick and making of a VC portfolio
26:24 - Contribution of FoF to the governance of the fund
2023-02-1728 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 10 - There’s No One Proven Formula to Define Success - Ft. Brijesh Samantara, Victor Senapathy, and Bibhu Prasad Das (Founders of Propelld)Brijesh Samantara, Victor Senapathy, and Bibhu Prasad Das, co-founders at Propelld, believe that there’s no one proven formula to define success.
In this episode, the three co-founders share their “aha” moments in their business journey, starting with the seeds sown during the initial stages of Propelld and transforming the face of financing the education ecosystem.
The podcast delves deep into the importance of making the right choices as an entrepreneur, persevering through challenges, and how valuations have now become validation. Find out how the trio began their quest, from finding a suitable business model to cre...
2023-02-1741 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 9 - Sugar Cosmetics: A Tale of Perseverance - Ft. Kaushik Mukherjee (COO & Co-founder, Sugar Cosmetics)Sugar Cosmetics' COO and co-founder, Kaushik Mukherjee, explains how betting big on a larger market is better, as in such a market, a mediocre entrepreneur can beat with half the hustle.
Take a deep dive into this episode, where Kaushik talks about the seeds of his entrepreneurship journey being laid down at his IIM interview and the 2 years of MBA to jostling across multiple ideas and fighting for a seed fund. He explains how an entrepreneur should choose what to build and never back down. Find out how the duo faced the highs and lows, seeking fundamental answers from...
2022-12-1450 min
Forbes India - The Startup Fridays PodcastStartup Fridays S3 Ep13: Anand Lunia at IndiaQuotient on why we need ‘Hindustan Big Tech’ to level the playing fieldOur guest today is Anand Lunia, general partner at IndiaQuotient, a well-known domestic VC firm that backs entrepreneurs attempting to solve large problems for the Indian market at even “concept stage.” In this episode, Anand talks about how 2021 was an exception, and for the startup ecosystem to come back to its mean, two-thirds of the startups may not be able to raise money, going forward. He also talks about how, as a nation, we ought to prioritise software independence, backing local entrepreneurs developing intellectual property, and not just software jobs
2022-12-091h 08
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 8 - Creating Large Sustainable Fintech Businesses Slowly - Ft. Harsh Lunia (CEO & Co-founder, LendingKart)Who would you bet on—conventional, established financial enterprises or new-age data-driven fintech companies?
Lendingkart's CEO and co-founder, Harsh Lunia, is banking on transformation and customisation in the financial sector in India. Tune into this episode where Harsh talks about the MSME landscape in India, changes in consumer behaviour in the financial service sector, his journey as a founder, and advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.
2022-12-0148 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 7 - Building for Small and Medium business & Entrepreneur's motivation-Featuring Sumit Agarwal (Vyapar) and IndiaQuotient TeamSumit Agarwal, founder of Vyapar, gets candid and shares his unconventional founder and startup journey with Madhukar and Gagan Goyal from IndiaQuotient. Vyapar is a business accounting software, built in India for small businesses in India.
Sumit Agarwal talks about how one interaction birthed Vyapar, misconceptions of the SMB market in India, the importance of failure in life, how he built Vyapar, the challenges faced, and advises aspiring entrepreneurs.
2022-11-0236 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 6 - Building a Slow unicorn - Ft. Jaydeep Barman (CEO & Co-founder, Rebel Foods), Madhukar Sinha (GP, IndiaQuotient), Anand Lunia (GP, IndiaQuotient)In this episode, Jaydeep Burman breaks down the journey that made Rebel Foods an adjective synonymous with any successful online restaurant brand across the globe. It transgresses through key ingredients, including people, which were key in creating Rebel, a massive and resilient franchise.
2022-10-0849 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?Episode 5 - WebEngage’s Journey of Pivoting to a Full Stack Customer Engagement Solution- Ft. Avlesh Singh (Co-founder, WebEngage), Madhukar Sinha (GP, IndiaQuotient), Gagan Goyal (GP, IndiaQuotient)In episode 5 of High IQ podcast, Avlesh Singh talks about his journey of pivoting Webengage from an in-the-moment conversion tool to a full-stack customer engagement solution. He discusses what prompted him to pivot Webengage, the challenges faced in the process, the insights found, and what motivated him to fight the long battle.
2022-09-1256 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?4.2 Monetization at Scale in India - Ft. Lal Chand Bisu and Vinod Kumar Meena (Founder KuKuFm- go to platform to enjoy audio content), Anand Lunia ( GP IndiaQuotient), Madhukar Sinha (GP IndiaQuoThe youth in India aspires to grow and evolve in India but lack access to value adding content, especially in tier 2 and tier 3 districts. Having spent their childhood in the hinterlands of Rajasthan, Kuku FM founders- Lal Chand Bisu and Vinod could relate to the problem and took it upon themselves to solve this so that every kid can dare to dream big!
In a very detailed episode, Bisu and Vinod discuss the audio industry in India-
1. What kind of content works in India?
2. Evolution of content consumers over the years
3...
2022-07-2537 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?4.1 Building an audio behemoth - Ft. Lal Chand Bisu and Vinod Kumar Meena (Founder KuKuFm- go to platform to enjoy audio content), Anand Lunia ( GP IndiaQuotient), Madhukar Sinha (GP IndiaQuotient)The youth in India aspires to grow and evolve in India but lack access to value adding content, especially in tier 2 and tier 3 districts. Having spent their childhood in the hinterlands of Rajasthan, Kuku FM founders- Lal Chand Bisu and Vinod could relate to the problem and took it upon themselves to solve this so that every kid can dare to dream big!
In a very detailed episode, Bisu and Vinod discuss the audio industry in India-
1. What kind of content works in India?
2. Evolution of content consumers over the years
3...
2022-07-2527 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?3.2 Talent, Skills and Mindset (Part 2) - Ft. Prateek Shukla (Founder Masai School), Anand Lunia ( GP IndiaQuotient), Madhukar Sinha (GP IndiaQuotient)Prateek is on a mission to upskill Bharat. He got Nrupul Dev and Yogesh Bhat together to start Masai School in June 2019. They set out to build a military-style coding institute, based on the 9-9-6 intensive training regime that runs for 6 days a week from 9 am to 9 pm.
In this episode, the IQ team discuss with Prateek delve into his journey as a second-time founder and the underlying dynamics driving the massive gold rush in the Indian tech job ecosystem.
Part 2 Description
In a candid conversation with Prateek, Madhukar and Anand scratch...
2022-07-1120 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?3.1 Reflections as a second time entrepreneur (Part 1) - Ft. Prateek Shukla (Co-Founder Masai School), Anand Lunia (GP IndiaQuotient), Madhukar Sinha (GP IndiaQuotient)Prateek is on a mission to upskill Bharat. He got Nrupul Dev and Yogesh Bhat together to start Masai School in June 2019. They set out to build a military-style coding institute, based on the 9-9-6 intensive training regime that runs for 6 days a week from 9 am to 9 pm.
In this episode, the IQ team discuss with Prateek delve into his journey as a second-time founder and the underlying dynamics driving the massive gold rush in the Indian tech job ecosystem.
Part 1 Description- In a very personal and gripping episode, Prateek flips the pages of...
2022-07-1133 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?1.2 What exactly is the TAM in India? - Ft. Farid Ahsan (Co-Founder ShareChat), Anand Lunia (Founding Partner IndiaQuotient), Madhukar Sinha (Founding Partner IndiaQuotient)Free flowing conversation on real addressable market of paying Indian Internet consumers.
2022-05-3026 min
High IQ: What Is Your IndiaQuotient?1.1 The Lack of Fresh Ideas in Indian Entrepreneurs (Part 1) - Ft. Farid Ahsan (Co-Founder ShareChat), Anand Lunia (Founding Partner, IndiaQuotient), Madhukar Sinha (Founding Partner, IndiaQuotient)Free flowing conversation on lack of unique ideas pursued by young Indian Entrepreneurs
2022-05-2723 min
Fintech Chatter: Insights From Fintech Leaders#72 Lizzie Chapman, Zest MoneyDexter Cousins is joined by the remarkable Lizzie Chapman CEO & Co-Founder of ZestMoney - India’s first and largest AI-Driven, digital financing platform.Lizzie Chapman is a leading figure in the fintech landscape of India. She has been instrumental in driving the adoption of digital finance and financial inclusion initiatives in the country. Lizzie's vision is to make life affordable to more than 300 million households that are currently ignored by traditional providers.India is on a path to becoming the most significant market for Fintech, globally. With a population of 1.4bn, less than 40% sma...
2021-02-2536 min
The Neon ShowAnand Lunia, India QuotientAfter completing his MBA from IIM Lucknow in 1998, Anand started his first EduTech company around the Dotcom boom - Brainvisa which became one of the largest eLearning companies in India and later on got acquired by Indecomm Global Services. From 2007 to 2012, he backed several startups as an Angel Investor - Fasoos & MyDentist.Later in his career in 2012, he became a Founding Partner at IndiaQuotient, Venture Capital Firm which has invested in over 50 startups in the last 8 years.Some of his portfolio companies are LoanTap, Clip, and Sharechat among others.In this podcast, Anand shares his understanding of the Indian Middle-class...
2020-02-161h 07