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Create WealthHow he became a Multimillionaire in his 30s!India’s startup ecosystem has many builders — but only a few catalysts.Utsav Somani is one of them.From cold-emailing Naval Ravikant to launching AngelList India, and from early bets on @CoinDCX and @BharatPeIndia to building Offline, Utsav has helped shape India’s modern angel investing movement.In this episode of the Create Wealth podcast, our co-founder Sandeep Jethwani sits down with Utsav to decode his journey — one of backing 180+ startups, creating access for founders where there was none, and now, solving for depth in India’s founder-investor networks.Utsav opens up about his inves...
2025-05-3154 min
Coder Caffeine#57. Prioritize Action Over Discussion & Win With Execution! (Naval Ravikant: Co-Founder of AngelList, and Bestselling Author)On this episode of Coder Caffeine we talk deep purple cold brew from New Delhi, India, decode an inspirational quote from Naval Ravikant, and provide a quick mental framework to shift from a mindset of good intentions to one where the priority is to take action.
You'll also hear a powerful Mantra brought to you with a vast amount of mocha coffee based enthusiasm to power your day - all because we want you
to take action steps to prove your theories, turn your theories into products, and transform innovative ideas into...
2024-09-1002 min
1947 Rise92: A Billion Dollar Bet, Learnings from India, ft. Andreas of Remote First Capital.Andreas Klinger is a former CTO of Product Hunt, CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck
He is also an investor via Remote First Capital.
He has backed some amazing companies like Remote, Mainstreet, Clubhouse and more.
Here are the topic we covered during our conversation
00:00 - Top moments
00:49 - Introduction
02:07 - What was the founding story of Remote First Capital?
05:18 - Did you have any mentors who helped you go about it?
06:11 - What's the portfolio construction like?
And how did you arrive to that portfolio construction?
10:35 -What's your thesis around your global investing...
2024-02-2946 min
Design for ChangeDesign Internship or Fulltime Job - Where do i start ?🌟 In this episode of "Design for Change" with Jagdish, we unravel the crucial decision-making process for aspiring designers—choosing between design internships and full-time positions. We guide you through three key steps to make an informed decision: Clarify Your Design Values ✨, Assess Your Confidence Level 🚀, and Take Action 💪. Plus, discover top internship platforms in India for a head start.
Script Gist:
Join jagadeesh in "Design for Change" as we tackle the dilemma many budding designers face: should you start your career with a design internship or go for a full-time job? We break it down into three st...
2023-10-0712 min
MLOps.communityLLM on K8s Panel // LLMs in Conference in Production Conference Part IIMLOps Coffee Sessions #178 with LLMs in Production Conference part 2 LLM on K8s Panel, Manjot Pahwa, Rahul Parundekar, and
Patrick Barker hosted by Outerbounds, Inc.'s Shrinand Javadekar.
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Large Language Models require a new set of tools... or do they? K8s is a beast and we like it that way. How can we best leverage all the battle-hardened tech that K8s has to offer to make sure that our LLMs go brrrrrrr. Let's talk about it in this chat.
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Shrinand Javadekar
Shri Javadekar is currently an engineer at Outerbounds, focussed on building a fully managed...
2023-09-0833 min
One Thing Today in TechOne thing today in tech – Edtech funding in India, especially early-stage, falls sharply in 2023In today’s episode we take a quick look at edtech funding, from a report published by Tracxn. But first, a few headlines.
Headlines
Telecom operators in India want internet companies to compensate them for using their telecom networks, a recommendation they’ve made to the local regulatory body, echoing a viewpoint that is gaining some momentum in other parts of the world, TechCrunch reports.
Pentathlon Ventures, an early-stage B2B SaaS-focused venture capital firm, has announced the launch of its second fund with a target corpus of Rs 450 Crore. The fund aims to in...
2023-09-0506 min
Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh SacharE143 - India's Biggest Angel Investor w/Utsav Somani of Offline, AngelList India, iSeed, GalaxyIn this Episode of the Podcast, we speak to Utsav Somani - India's Biggest Angel Investor and decode how he thinks. Utsav is the Founder of AngelList India, General Partner - iSeed and Founder of Galaxy.
Tune in to hear Utsav unfiltered on a host of subjects, lets dive in!
00:00 - Introduction
01:32 - Starting AngelList India via a Cold Email
06:15 - How Utsav started to Angel Invest?
15:23 - Evolution of Angel Investing
21:20 - What is Smart Capital?
25:15 - Mastering New Initiatives (Angel Investing, AngelList India, iSeed, Galaxy)
30:42 - Founder Led Capital in India
33:06 - Substance vs Noise
37:18 - Outlier...
2023-07-021h 12
AngelList India Radio#63 Udayan Walvekar (GrowthX)GrowthX is a learning community for the top 1% growth leaders.
The GrowthX membership gives three key things. One, Ability to grow any internet product through learning frameworks taught by top growth leaders. Two, The revered GrowthX community, a safe space to soundboard about anything that’s stressing you. Three, Real outcomes for founders and leaders- they are able to upskill, hire & scale their revenue growth team.
Prior to GrowthX, Udayan was the first growth hire at Razorpay where he built the product growth team that drove growth across all verticals of Razorpay. He's also worked ac...
2023-03-1424 minAngelList India Radio#62 Sanil Sachar (Huddle)Sanil Sachar is the co-founder and partner of Huddle, an entrepreneur, active angel investor, national best-selling author, and columnist based in New Delhi, India. As part of their accelerator, Huddle, Sanil works with the portfolio, to attain the short and long-term keenly focusing on the revenue strategy and growth. He is also one of the co-owners of the global sports apparel brand Tru, and looks in the global strategy and the multi-sports growth of Trusox in India. Sanil focusses his efforts to enable startups on their go-to-market strategies and revenue models as a base for their growth.
2022-09-1523 min
YFYI — Yoga For Your IntellectYFYI Visits The Ashram In India! (Part 3 of 3)In the Summer of 2022, Joseph and James traveled to Vedanta Academy, the renowned ashram founded by the world's most acclaimed Vedantic philosopher, Swami Parthasarathy, in Malavli, India. This 3-part series of conversations between Joseph and James covers aspects of the ashram, Swami Parthasarathy, and the cornerstone principles of Vedanta. Subscribe below for our regular weekly conversations.
Credit to Joost Vink for the B-Roll! https://instagram.com/j.a.vink
YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.
Would you like to experience...
2022-07-251h 00
YFYI — Yoga For Your IntellectYFYI Visits The Ashram In India! (Part 2 of 3)In the Summer of 2022, Joseph and James traveled to Vedanta Academy, the renowned ashram founded by the world's most acclaimed Vedantic philosopher, Swami Parthasarathy, in Malavli, India. This 3-part series of conversations between Joseph and James covers aspects of the ashram, Swami Parthasarathy, and the cornerstone principles of Vedanta. Subscribe below for our regular weekly conversations.
Credit to Joost Vink for the B-Roll! https://instagram.com/j.a.vink
YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.
Would you like to experience...
2022-07-1945 minYFYI — Yoga For Your IntellectYFYI Visits The Ashram In India! (Part 2 of 3)In the Summer of 2022, Joseph and James traveled to Vedanta Academy, the renowned ashram founded by the world's most acclaimed Vedantic philosophers, Swami Parthasarathy, in Malavli, India. This 3-part series of conversations between Joseph and James covers aspects of the ashram, Swami Parthasarathy, and the cornerstone principles of Vedanta. Subscribe below for our regular weekly conversations.
Credit to Joost Vink for the B-Roll! https://instagram.com/j.a.vink
YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.
About the hosts: James Beshara...
2022-07-1848 minYFYI — Yoga For Your IntellectYFYI Visits The Ashram In India! (Part 1 of 3)In the Summer of 2022, Joseph and James traveled to Vedanta Academy, the renowned ashram founded by the world's most acclaimed Vedantic philosopher, Swami Parthasarathy, in Malavli, India. This 3-part series of conversations between Joseph and James covers aspects of the ashram, Swami Parthasarathy, and the cornerstone principles of Vedanta. Subscribe below for our regular weekly conversations.
Credit to Joost Vink for the B-Roll! https://instagram.com/j.a.vink
YFYI (Yoga For Your Intellect) is a conversational, digital approach to the 5000+ year old, ancient eastern philosophy of Vedanta.
Would you like to experience...
2022-07-111h 06
AngelList India Radio#61 Rishabh Karwa (GoMechanic)Rishabh Karwa is the co-founder of GoMechanic. GoMechanic is disrupting India’s auto aftermarket with their services, spares, accessories & tech ecosystem. With over 1200+ workshops across 60+ cities, GoMechanic offers 300+ car services, warranties, spares e-commerce & has built a unique supply chain with garages & retailers. Started by 4 friends - Rishabh, Kushal, Amit & Nitin in 2016, GoMechanic aims to solve auto aftermarket problems at first principles & aim for global markets replicating their model. With 1000+ employees, 4000+ mechanics & 250+ retailers - GoMechanic aims to add value in the entire ecosystem.
2022-04-2924 min
AngelList India Radio#60 Ragini Das (leap.club)Ragini Das (co-founder, leap.club) is a woman on a mission - more women in leadership roles. With the aim to bridge the long seen disparity between men and women in the workspace, her remarkable skills in building and expanding brands has been key in seamlessly accelerating leap.club towards this mission.
During her tenure at Zomato, Ragini had been a huge part of the building blocks of the brand and has garnered experience across various growth roles in a span of six years. Previously, as the head of International expansion for Zomato Gold, her expertise resulted...
2022-03-2126 minAngelList India Radio#59 Ravi Iyer (Flipkart Leap)Ravi Iyer is a Senior Vice President & Head of Corporate Development, Partnerships, Corporate Finance at Flipkart. He is a veteran of Flipkart, having worked there over the last 8 years in multiple roles. Prior to that, he spent 12 years plus in the FMCG space at ITC. He has led multiple key initiatives at Flipkart over the years, most recently the acquisition of companies like Yaantra, Cleartrip and strategic partnership with companies like Moj and Adani. He has led multiple key initiatives at Flipkart over the years spoke to us about their accelerator program.
2022-02-1416 min
The Shaping Futures PodcastEpisode 7: All About Networking ft. Jivraj Singh SacharJivraj is a passionate podcaster and the Host of the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast. Through the past 16 months he has curated over 90 Episodes across 4500+ minutes, with the mission to democratise startup building knowledge. The podcast has become a Top 10 Business & Tech podcast in the country and hosted over 25 Unicorn Founders. Professionally, Jivraj is a part of the Venture Operations team at AngelList India, one of India's largest early stage investing platforms. We spoke about: (i) The value of building positive relationships (ii) The importance of creating social profiles (iii) The significance of t...
2022-02-0122 minAngelList India Radio#58 Anand Chandrasekaran (Kwaish)Anand has built five products globally with 10M+ users (one with 1 billion+ users) and co-founded Aeroprise Inc. (acq by BMC Software). Most recently, he was EVP, Product at Five9 (Nasdaq: FIVN). Five9 has added $10B in value since 2019. He is also seed investor/advisor in 80+ startups across US/India, 35 of which have grown to $250M+ and eight > $1B in valuation. Breakout investments include Dealshare (1.7B valuation), NoBroker (1B valuation), Rupeek (600M valuation) Khatabook (600M valuation), OneCard (750M valuation) , etc.
Prior to this, Anand was Director of Messenger Platform at Facebook. He was previously CPO @ Snapdeal, one of India’s e-commerce lea...
2022-01-1035 minAngelList India Radio#57 Arjun Vaidya (Verlinvest)Arjun Vaidya was the CEO at Dr. Vaidya's: New Age Ayurveda (until Jan 2021). Prior to his entrepreneurial stint, Arjun graduated from Brown University, USA with a BA with honors in International Relations and Economics. He then worked in private equity at a consumer sector focused fund, L Capital Asia (the private equity arm of the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group) where he focused specifically on consumer brands and consumer tech.
In October 2016, Arjun quit his job to take on his 150-year-old family legacy of Ayurvedic formulations that his grandfather left behind. Dr. Vaidya’s repackaged the ancient In...
2021-12-0318 minAngelList India Radio#56 Vishnu Acharya & Dinesh Pai (Razorpay & Rainmatter)Vishnu leads Corp Dev/Investments at Razorpay - with a focus on supporting innovation and creating value for the payments and banking fintech ecosystem in India. Razorpay is one of India's largest NeoBanking & payments player. Vishnu also manages investments at MarsShot Ventures (an angel fund for early stage entrepreneurs).
Dinesh Pai leads initiatives for Rainmatter, which is a Fintech focused fund by Zerodha. Rainmatter believes in helping people do better with their money and deepen capital market participation in India.
2021-10-1526 minAngelList India Radio#55 Shashwata Narain (Veera Health)Shashwata Narain is the co-founder and CEO of Veera Health. Veera Health is on a mission to help women lead healthier lives. Veera’s first offering is a digital therapeutics platform that helps women identify and navigate Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), with a comprehensive offering of therapy, coaching and specialist support. Veera Health was founded in Mumbai by Shobhita and Shashwata Narain in August 2020. The sisters gained firsthand insight into the problem after Shobhita was diagnosed with PCOS a number of years ago. Shashwata has an MBA from Wharton and worked with consumer health companies at McKinsey.
2021-09-0619 minAngelList India Radio#54 Rohit M A (Cloudnine)Rohit is the Co-founder, Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, India's premier mother and child healthcare specialists. Rohit is amongst those limited few set of entrepreneurs who have built organisations from scratch and scaled over the years to now at the cusp of a public listing milestone. An avid startup evangelist, Rohit started investing through his fund Capier Investments over the last 5 years and has been able to use his entrepreneurial experience and skills to help invest in founders and their vision. Cloudnine aside, Rohit has built a tremendous portfolio which includes investments into marquee funds operating in th...
2021-09-0323 minAngelList India Radio#53 Rahul Raj (FloBiz)Rahul is the co-founder & CEO of FloBiz, a Bangalore-based SMB growth focused neo-bank that he started with co-founders Aditya Naik & Rakesh Yadav in 2019. In the past, the trio built India’s first digital assets exchange Koinex in 2017. As CEO, he plays an active role in the company’s business development, marketing & growth strategies. He believes that despite being a significant contributor to the nation’s economy, SMBs are deprived of opportunities and encouragement. With the FloBiz team, he aims to unlock the immense potential of SMBs and entrepreneurs, by leveraging technology to solve the most crucial pain points of the se...
2021-08-2620 minAngelList India Radio#52 Farid Ahsan (ShareChat)Farid is the Co-founder and COO of Indian startup ShareChat & Moj. ShareChat (recently valued at $2.9bn) is India’s largest homegrown social media platform with about 200mn users, while Moj is the largest short video app of India with more than 160mn active users. ShareChat has prominent investors including Tiger Global, Temasek and Lightspeed, along with global networks Twitter and Snapchat. Farid did his undergrad from IIT Kanpur in 2014. He is also a Venture Partner at First Cheque, and has done a few angel investments like OkCredit, Giva, Saveo, AbleJobs, FrontRow, BharatAgri amongst others.
2021-08-2026 minAngelList India Radio#51 Abhiroop Medhekar (Velocity)Abhiroop Medhekar is a 2X founder and CEO of India's largest revenue based financing platform - Velocity. Velocity is building the future of business financing for D2C brands and eCommerce businesses.
Abhiroop started his career as a management consultant with McKinsey where he extensively worked across Financial Services and Technology sectors. Post McKinsey, he co-founded Taskbob (a consumer internet startup) where he led multiple business and growth functions. Most recently, he worked as a VC investor with Elevation Capital, leading investments in Fintech and Healthtech sectors.
Abhiroop majored in Computer Science and Engineering from...
2021-08-2020 minAngelList India Radio#50 Srikrishnan Ganesan (RocketLane)Srikrishnan is a co-founder of the leading Customer Onboarding Platform - Rocketlane. Sri has spent his last 9 years building and scaling SaaS businesses. His last start-up Konotor was acquired by Freshworks in 2015, and went on to become their fastest-growing product (Freshchat). Prior to starting up, Srikrishnan was leading product teams at companies like Verizon, Rediff, and Jigsee.
2021-08-1820 minAngelList India Radio#49 Amit Singh (Weekday)Amit is the co-founder and CEO of Weekday (backed by Y Combinator). He previously built and exited Memer to Sharechat and was part of an early stage VC firm. Weekday is building an alternative tech hiring platform which helps companies hire software engineers who are vouched by others. Amit talks about benchmarks startups should follow in hiring Indian software engineers, and how to navigate tech hiring in remote-first world.
2021-08-1223 minAngelList India Radio#48 Ashish Dave (Mirae Asset Venture)Ashish Dave is the CEO of Mirae Asset Venture Investments (India). He is responsible for setting up Mirae's Venture business in India and has invested in companies like Zomato, Ola, BigBasket, KreditBee, Raise Financial, Koo and Jai Kisan among others.
2021-06-1626 minAngelList India Radio#47 Sampad Swain (Instamojo)Sampad Swain is the CEO and co-founder of Instamojo. He’s a serial entrepreneur who’s been working relentlessly towards the mission of bringing Indian MSMEs online. Instamojo was the first company to pioneer the concept of “payment link” in India and has now expanded into a full-stack e-commerce platform for DTC merchants. Apart from being somebody who understands the sentiment of small businesses, he is an avid reader and loves a good game of football and tennis.
2021-06-1226 min
Zero to InfinityTarun Davda on AngelList India radioTarun Davda (Managing Director at Matrix Partners India) speaks to Utsav Somani of AngelList India to take stock of the current startup scenario and Indian entrepreneurial drive
2021-06-1129 minAngelList India Radio#46 Tarun Davda (Matrix Partners India)Tarun is a Managing Director at Matrix Partners India. He is an intrapreneur turned VC who has had the unique opportunity to build and lead two successful Internet businesses in India. With over 12 years of experience in the trenches, he enjoys partnering with promising entrepreneurs and uses his experience to help them nurture, grow and flourish their business. He has backed companies such as Ola Cabs, DealShare, Stanza Living, Dukaan, Captain Fresh and many more.
2021-06-0929 minAngelList India Radio#45 Mohit Kumar (Ultrahuman)Mohit Kumar is the founder and CEO of Ultrahuman. Prior to this, in 2015, he founded Runnr, a hyperlocal logistics platform. Runnr merged with Zomato in 2017 with Mohit transitioning to lead the Global delivery business at Zomato. There, he built one of the largest delivery fleets in the world with ~ 300k+ delivery executives in 1000 cities. Mohit is an avid cyclist, biohacker and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast.
2021-06-0822 minAngelList India Radio#44 Aaryaman Vir (Prophetic Ventures)Aaryaman Vir is an entrepreneur who co-founded India’s first VC-funded blockchain startup called Elemential Labs. While Aaryaman remains heavily involved with NFTs and cryptocurrencies, he also runs an early stage fund Prophetic Ventures, volunteers with the iSPIRT Foundation, and writes about tech on his blog called Tigerfeathers.
2021-06-0625 minAngelList India Radio#43 Hemant Mohapatra (Lightspeed India)Hemant is a Partner with Lightspeed India, a global VC firm with offices in the US, India, China and Israel. Prior to Lightspeed, he was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a VC firm based in Silicon Valley and investor in Facebook, Twitter, AirBnb, and more. He joined a16z after 5 years at Google doing strategic partnerships deals and investments. Before a16z and Google, Hemant was an Engineer at AMD, a micro-processor firm. He has a bachelor's and a couple of master's degrees in engineering, computer sciences, and business spread across India, USA and the UK.
2021-06-0117 minAngelList India Radio#42 Ankur Warikoo (nearbuy)Ankur Warikoo founded nearbuy.com, India’s No.1 Lifestyle App. Prior to that, Ankur started Groupon’s India business in 2011 and acted as the Country CEO from 2011-15, and Head of Groupon APAC from 2013-15. In 2008 he co-founded his first startup - Accentium Web that ran websites such as Gaadi.com, Secondshaadi.com amongst others. Thereafter, Ankur launched Rocket Internet’s India business and was part of the founding team of Jabong.com. Ankur was part of Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 List for India, LinkedIn India’s Top Voices for 2018, 2019 and 2020, LinkedIn India’s Spotlight List, India’s Top Executives und...
2021-05-2717 minAngelList India Radio#41 Anand Agrawal (Credgenics)Anand Agrawal is the Co-founder and CTO of Credgenics - India’s leading recovery and technology-enabled debt collections platform; servicing 7 Banks, +40 NBFCs and fintech platforms. Ethically reducing the massive bad debts for the clients and ultimately the Indian fiscal scene, they are powered by Accel Partners, Westbridge Capital, Tanglin, Titan Capital and boast of progress in AI and Machine Learning. Anand is an IIT-Delhi alumni with a strong Computer Science background and gained experience as a Lead in the data science team of 1MG and Urban Company.
2021-05-2324 min
Why So CuriousE8 - Breaking into Venture Capital w/Jivraj Singh Sachar ( AngelList India )This episode mainly deals with the unconventional process that lies to join a Venture Capital firm as a beginner. For this podcast, we have Jivraj Singh Sachar who is handling Venture Operations at Angel List India.
Jivraj also has an amazing podcast called Indian Silicon Valley Podcast in which he deeps dive into the startup culture of India.
Key Points in the Podcast :
How will you explain VC to a 10-year-old?
What's a beginner guide to joining a VC firm in India/ abroad.
What's the millennial way of thinking about the VC space...
2021-05-1845 minAngelList India Radio#40 Anshul Sharma (Redwing Labs)Anshul Sharma is the co-founder of Redwing Labs, an autonomous logistics startup using drones to deliver healthcare products. The team has received 12 awards by industry giants such as NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus. Redwing is building a “virtual cold chain” for logistics by using an on-demand drone logistics network. This will reduce the need for refrigerators at hospitals & decrease wastage in supply chain, by delivering cold-chain products like blood & vaccines using autonomous flying robots. Backed by Techstars India, ITIGO, Beyond Capital, Cloud Capital, Asymmetry Ventures and other angels.
2021-05-1526 minAngelList India Radio#39 Pranay Gupta (91Springboard)Pranay Gupta runs the 91Ventures Syndicate. He co-founded 91Springboard, India’s first & most loved co-working space and was the ex-Joint CEO of IIM-A’s Incubator, Accelerator & Seed fund. He has invested professionally in 80+ startups with 30+ given exits.
2021-05-1324 minAngelList India Radio#38 Rahul Mathur (BimaPe)Rahul is the Founder & CEO of BimaPe, a Y-Combinator backed InsurTech startup. BimaPe makes it easy for Indian families to manage all their insurance plans via a single interface.
Prior to founding BimaPe, Rahul worked as an Insurance PM at Laka Insurance and in FinTech investments at Accenture in the UK.
2021-04-2719 minAngelList India Radio#37 Sarvesh Shashi (SARVA)Sarvesh Shashi is the youngest CEO in the yoga and wellness fraternity. He is building SARVA Yoga to be a globally recognised name with the vision of connecting seven billion breaths. Sarvesh believes in the philosophy of consciousness through yoga and the emotion of happiness that stems out of yoga practices. He wants to spread this yoga happiness to thousands. At a young age of 21 he gave up a bright career in his father’s sprawling businesses and set out to touch the lives of many with yoga. Hence he is fondly called The CEO among Monks by many.
2021-04-2619 min
The Desi VC with Akash BhatE42: The Rise of Operator-VCs (Bonus: The Desi VC Summit Panel)Empathy is going to become a key undertone of investing. Investors who have run companies and raised capital bring empathy that an investor coming from a consulting background just can’t. Founders are becoming smarter about who they raise capital from. On this panel, Siya Raj Purohit (General Partner, Pathway Ventures), Revant Bhate (CEO, Mosaic Wellness) and Utsav Somani (Partner, AngelList India & iSeed) discuss why some of the best investors in the future are going to be investor-operators.
2021-03-1042 minAngelList India Radio#36 Abhimanyu Saxena (InterviewBit, Scaler)Abhimanyu Saxena is one of the co-founders at InterviewBit and Scaler Academy. Passionate about creating something new, he started his entrepreneurial journey during his B.Tech days - co-founding ‘Daksh Home Automations Systems’ with his batch mates. Together they developed a cost-effective and green AI-based system that helped households reduce their monthly electricity consumption. The company was later sold to a reputed organisation based in Malta, although it was a paltry amount it was a huge motivator for Abhimanyu and his friends.
In 2010, he joined Progress Software as a programmer and worked with them for a year and...
2021-02-2320 minAngelList India Radio#35 Rajiv Srivatsa (Antler India)Rajiv is a Partner at Antler India. Previously, Rajiv co-founded Urban Ladder (UL), India's top omni-channel furniture brand, where he oversaw Product, Technology, Culture, Marketing & Brand. Over ~8 years before being acquired by Reliance, UL raised over $100Mn in venture capital from top Indian VCs, grew into one of India’s most loved brands, and changed the way Indians shop for furniture online. Prior to Urban Ladder, he served as a Senior Product Manager with Yahoo. He has been featured on GQ Influential Young Indians and repeatedly on the Fortune 40 Under 40 India list. Rajiv loves working with early-stage entrepreneurs on pr...
2021-02-1118 minAngelList India Radio#34 Anurag Ramdasan (3one4 Capital)Anurag Ramdasan leads investments at 3one4 Capital. 3one4 Capital is an early-stage tech VC firm with a portfolio of 50+ active startups. Anurag has been with the firm since 2016, leading the investment practice. Previously he led tech at the bay area-based edtech startup, Edcast. 3one4 Capital has a portfolio of companies including Licious, Open, Darwinbox, Betterplace, MoneyOnClick.
2021-02-1118 minAngelList India Radio#33 Rupesh Mishra (PagarBook)Rupesh embarked on his entrepreneurship journey while studying for his Bachelor of Technology back in 2014. After half a decade and 4 startups later, Rupesh co-founded PagarBook with cofounders Adarsh and Arya, aimed to build human capital platform for Indian SMEs by digitizing financial and professional profiling of 65M+ SMEs and 400M+ employees working in these businesses. At PagarBook Rupesh currently looks after growth and business strategy.
2021-02-0920 minAngelList India Radio#32 Aloke Bajpai (iXigo)Aloke Bajpai is the co-founder of iXigo - India's leading AI based travel app. iXigo was recently ranked amongst India's top 10 transactional apps on the Google Playstore - the only travel app to feature in the top 10 list. They also acquired ConfirmTkt - a railway tickets booking platform which brings the combined strength of iXigo's user base to 35M MAUs. On this interview Aloke talks about his journey with iXigo for the last 13 years, how they have transitioned between 3 business models to arrive at the right profitable one and how 2021 is shaping out for the travel industry.
2021-02-0529 minAngelList India Radio#31 Apurv Agrawal (SquadStack)Apurv Agrawal is the Co-founder and CEO, SquadStack - synchronous combination of Humans + AI as the future of work. They leverage technology to build sales-acceleration solutions for consumer companies across the globe. With SquadIQ (In India) and Auctm (US Real estate) market, they are helping consumer businesses 5x their sales conversions and improve profitability. At its core, SquadStack strives to create a people-first organisation heavily centered around a robust culture of ownership and flexibility.
2021-01-2019 minAngelList India Radio#30 Anirudh Singla (Pepper Content)Anirudh Singla is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pepper Content, one of the leading content marketplace platforms that connect businesses with content creators. With the extensive talent network, the platform consists of a two-sided managed marketplace for creative professionals like content writers, graphic designers, language specialists, and editors; where creators get matched to the best fit content projects from businesses. Anirudh and Rishabh Shekhar, who were batchmates at BITS Pilani, founded Pepper Content with a vision to build a global content company out of India that would disrupt the entire content creation industry at scale and create a st...
2021-01-1619 minAngelList India Radio#29 Sumit Gupta (CoinDCX)Sumit Gupta is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CoinDCX, India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange and liquidity aggregator. When Bitcoin began gaining traction in 2014, Sumit saw the potential of leveraging blockchain technology to enable financial inclusion. Under Sumit’s able leadership, CoinDCX has grown manifold from a startup to the largest cryptocurrency exchange in India. Backed by eminent investors such as Polychain Capital, Coinbase, Block.one, among others, CoinDCX boasts of a range of products and services such as staking, margin trading, fiat on ramp/off ramp offerings, to cater to every kind of investor in Indi...
2021-01-1622 minAngelList India Radio#28 Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn)"Being nice is a superpower in startup investing. There is a reason early individual investors in startup world are called angels and we all need to do everything to grow into that title". Hear how Abhishek Goyal, cofounder of Tracxn is working towards accelerating innovation globally through Tracxn and through angel investing and how he is most bullish about tomorrow than ever before. Abhishek is graduate from IIT Kanpur, worked with Yahoo and Amazon before joining Accel and then starting Tracxn. In various avatars (Accel, Tracxn Labs & personally), he has invested in 100+ startups over last 13 years which included names...
2020-12-1023 minAngelList India Radio#27 Shashank Mehta (The Whole Truth)Shashank started his fitness journey at over 100kgs, 15 years ago. In the decade that followed, he taught himself fitness, lost 40kgs, ran several marathons, and helped many friends and colleagues get onto the fitness bandwagon. An IIM graduate, he has self-experimented with every fitness-fad and quick-fix out there, and now runs a 100% clean label food brand called The Whole Truth (formerly ‘and nothing else’). They make super clean Protein Bars and Immunity balls, and you can check them out at thewholetruthfoods.com.
2020-12-1020 minAngelList India Radio#26 Aakrit Vaish (Haptik)Aakrit Vaish is the Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, a conversational AI company acquired by Reliance Jio in March 2019. Haptik's mission has been to enable better & faster customer experiences for businesses using AI, through messaging and voice. The company has powered more than 3 billion interactions as of December 2020 and counts six Fortune 500 companies as customers. As part of Jio Platforms, Haptik's goal is to create an AI software powerhouse, built from India for the world. Outside of Haptik, Aakrit is an investor in startups in India and the US, notable ones being Unacademy, Pepper Content, Park+, Flat White Capital, Third...
2020-12-0922 minAngelList India Radio#25 Harpreet Singh Grover (CoCubes)Harpreet S. Grover and Vibhore Goyal are friends who first met as room-mates at IIT Bombay and eventually decided to start and run CoCubes.com for over ten years, before being acquired by Aon Hewitt in an all-cash deal. At the time of acquisition, CoCubes had touched 3 million students across India and worked with 1000+ corporates and colleges. Harpreet is an active angel investor—some of his deals include Chaayos, ShopKirana and Avail Finance, among others. Vibhore is a business-product guy who loves flying. Alongside building CoCubes over the years, he co-founded Babajob and is now the founder and CEO of...
2020-12-0421 minAngelList India Radio#24 Rohan & Arjun Malhotra (Good Capital)Rohan & Arjun Malhotra are founding partners of Good Capital, an early-stage fund focused on Indian startups with first cheques in Meesho, SimSim, & Entri. The firm specializes in business models that enable intermediaries for distribution, personalisation or localisation. Founding Partners of Good Capital cover a lot of ground on AngelList India Radio - raising capital but being offered marriage proposals, empirical vs. rational approaches to investing, building a VC firm, competing in the Olympics, why global investors have been burnt in India and Good Capital's unusual approach to seed of creating a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio.
2020-11-2330 min
The VCpreneur: Startups | Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | FundraisingEP#20 Utsav Somani – The AngelList India journey, advantage of having good angel investors on your cap table & starting a micro fund to bridge the gap between India & the Silicon ValleyIn this episode, Utsav Somani, Partner @AngelList India & @iSeed, joins our host Digjay, to talk about his exciting journey & vision at AngelList India, the asymmetric upside from writing good cold emails, advantage of having angel investors on your cap table along with institutional VC funds, and starting his own micro fund iSeed, to bridge the gap between India & the Silicon Valley
AngelList is platform that is democratizing angel investing and helping startups with fundraising, launching products and hiring talent. Besides leading AngelList India, Utsav is also an experienced angel investor with a portfolio of more than 30 companies...
2020-11-2231 minAngelList India Radio#23 Abhishek Nag (Luminaire Capital)Abhishek Nag is the Director of Business Development, India and South Asia, at Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service.In addition to his responsibilities at Netflix, Abhishek has been an active angel investor for the last 4 years, with investments in MyGate, Mobile Premier League, The Healthy Cravings Co, Kutuki to name a few. He operates his investments through Luminaire Capital (https://luminaire.capital). Abhishek started his career as a telecom engineer with NI, where he was responsible for developing software used in the design and test of RF and wireless communication hardware. Abhishek was one of the ea...
2020-11-1922 minAngelList India Radio#22 Nitin Sharma (FirstPrinciples)Nitin Sharma is a seasoned VC in his third venture investing innings with FirstPrinciples, a portfolio of 40+ Seed to Pre Series A investments. From edtech to blockchain to D2C brands to cross-border US-India startups, Nitin has followed his wide-ranging curiosity in working with founders. He is also the founder of Incrypt Blockchain. Previously, Nitin has been a founding principal at Lightbox, one of India’s leading consumer tech funds ($400M AUM). Earlier in his career, he learnt the ropes of venture investing from some of the best, while being at NEA in the US, and was also an ea...
2020-11-1319 minAngelList India Radio#21 Harshil Mathur (Razorpay)Harshil is the Co-Founder and CEO of Razorpay. He started Razorpay after discovering the dismal state of online payments in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee in 2013 and started working at Schlumberger. With an idea to change the way online payments functioned in India, Harshil quit his full-time job and founded Razorpay with his co-founder, Shashank Kumar in 2014 to simplify online payments for India. Razorpay was one of the very few India-focused companies to be selected for the prestigious Y Combinator (YC) programme in 2014. Along with 33 reputed investors, the company is also backed by GIC, Sequoia Capital India, Tiger...
2020-11-1119 minAngelList India Radio#20 Nithin Kamath (Zerodha)Nithin Kamath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zerodha, which he co-founded with his brother Nikhil in 2010. Zerodha is India’s first discount brokerage and is widely credited as being a disruptive force in the Indian Broking industry. Zerodha is now the largest broking firm in the country by active clients & turnover and contributes more than 15% of the daily exchange turnover, serving more than 3 million clients. With Zerodha, Nithin has worked relentlessly to solve the woes individual Indian investors face. He has won many awards while doing the same - Economic Times’ Startup of the Year 2020, ET 40 under 40 and othe...
2020-11-1022 minAngelList India Radio#19 Sairee Chahal (SHEROES)Sairee Chahal is the Founder and CEO of SHEROES, where she is building the Women's Internet in India. SHEROES is India's largest online Women-Only Social Network. SHEROES currently has 21 million users, has members from over 20,000 locations, and over 12,000 companies actively use the platform.
2020-11-0717 minAngelList India Radio#18 Ritesh Malik (Innov8)Ritesh Malik is a doctor turned entrepreneur and investor. He is the Founder of Innov8 which was acquired by Oyo. He is also a founding member of Plaksha University - training future entrepreneurs to be Industry 4.0 ready - along with some of the leading tech leaders of India.
2020-11-0721 minAngelList India Radio#17 Sanket Shah (InVideo)Sanket Shah is the Founder of InVideo, where is he is building the worlds best and the most used video creation platform. InVideo has raised venture funds from the likes of Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global. 2X entrepreneur. Try out the product at https://invideo.io/.
2020-11-0219 minAngelList India Radio#16 Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy)Gaurav Munjal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unacademy, India’s largest learning platform. He started Unacademy as an educational YouTube channel in 2010 when he was in college. In 2013, he set up his first company, Flat.to (now acquired by CommonFloor). Unacademy was established as a company in 2015 and has achieved exponential growth and success since then. Backed by prominent venture firms like Softbank, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, Nexus Ventures, Facebook and Blume Ventures.
2020-10-2922 minAngelList India Radio#15 Madhavan Malolan (CreatorOS)Madhavan is the CEO of CreatorOS. CreatorOS helps coaches, teachers and artists launch their own app to start monetising their engagement with fans by selling content and managing the community. He has been building such tooling for the last three years, and has now arrived at a product his users love - after multiple pivots. You can try the product at https://creatoros.co/.
2020-10-2820 minAngelList India Radio#14 Kunal Bahl (Snapdeal)Kunal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Snapdeal.com, one of India’s largest e-commerce companies. In its journey till now, Snapdeal has partnered with several global marquee investors such as Softbank, Alibaba, Foxconn, BlackRock, Temasek, eBay Inc, Mr. Ratan Tata, Mr. Azim Premji, among others. Kunal is an engineer from the University of Pennsylvania, with a business degree from The Wharton School. At the University of Pennsylvania, he was part of the prestigious Jerome Fisher Management and Technology Program. He was named The Economic Times Entrepreneur of the Year 2015, which is the most prestigious entrepreneurship award in India. He...
2020-10-2623 minAngelList India Radio#13 Vivekananda Hallekere (Bounce)Vivek is the CEO and co-founder of Bounce, one of the fastest growing mobility companies in the world. Bounce offers self drive scooters, where users can pick up and drop scooters anywhere. Bounce has raised over USD 200M and has done over 30 million rides in Bangalore. Vivek and Bounce believe that mobility is a fundamental right and is on the mission of enabling this fundamental right to access.
2020-10-2016 minAngelList India Radio#12 Jasminder Gulati (NowFloats)Jasminder Singh Gulati co-founded NowFloats (sold to Reliance Jio), a Hyderabad-based startup which focuses on empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by helping them go online easily, without spending a fortune. A TedX speaker, he has brought more 130,000 businesses online whose websites account for five percent of the overall traffic generated by Indian SMBs. His motto now is to turn every business in India digital by 2022. During his corporate stint at TCS, he built India’s first global software product for the financial services industry. His longest stint was at Microsoft where he worked for more than 11 years and he...
2020-10-1715 minAngelList India Radio#11 Vidur Gupta (Stranger & Sons)Vidur Gupta is the co-founder of Third Eye Distilleries, which produces the inherently Indian gin, Stranger and Sons. He graduated from the University of St. Andrews in 2014 with an MA in economics and management. He started his career at a premium health foods company, Eat Natural in London. He returned to India in 2016 as Managing Director for Gouri’s Goodies, one of India’s first natural clean label snack food companies (which started in his mother’s kitchen!).
2020-10-1316 minAngelList India Radio#10 Wing Vasiksiri (iSeed SEA)Wing Vasiksiri is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of iSeed SEA. He was previously on the operations team at AngelList where he worked with angel investors and fund managers to invest over $80M into 357 startups. Before that, he helped raised institutional funds for 500 Startups and The House Fund and has personally angel invested in 18 startups and 3 venture funds. He is now based in Thailand where he invests across Southeast Asia and helps companies scale and break into the Thai market.
2020-10-1214 minAngelList India Radio#9 Deepak Dhar (Repute)Deepak is the co-founder of Repute, that exists to reward great consumer behaviour in the rental economy space. He has previously co-founded NestAway, a large co-living service operator, and was a founding member of CitrusPay that was sold to PayU.
2020-10-1019 minAngelList India Radio#8 Anubhav Jain (Rupifi)Anubhav is the Co-founder & CEO of Rupifi. He has worked in Financial Services space on Risk, Product and Data Analytics for 12+ years, building Commercial and Consumer Risk Strategies for Amex, Citi, Qbera, Razorpay and now at Rupifi. Rupifi is building India’s first Embedded Lending Fintech for Small Businesses in an Anchor-led approach, working with marketplaces, aggregators and distributors and powering B2B transactions on credit.
2020-10-0924 min
The Desi VC with Akash BhatE30: Utsav Somani (Partner, AngelList India and iSeed)Utsav Somani is a Partner at AngelList India and General Partner at iSeed (a seed-stage fund looking to bridge successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Indian founders in the search of money as well as the expertise and knowledge of scaling up a startup).Follow Utsav (@somani_utsav), host Akash (@bhatvakash) and our podcast (@thedesi_vc) on Twitter. . . .The Desi Startups of the Week:1. Flatheads: Flatheads is an all-day casual sneakers designed for work wear and optimized for 14-hour comfort.2. MoveABox: MoveABox is Bangalore-based startup helping people to vacate and...
2020-10-051h 00AngelList India Radio#7 Matt Chitharanjan (Blue Tokai Coffee)Matt Chitharanjan is the co-founder of Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters. Matt graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business with a B.S. in Finance. He has corporate/industry experience in the area of Economic Research and Real Estate Investing for a boutique consulting firm and hedge fund in Berkeley, California before pursuing an M.A. in Economics from The University of British Columbia.
2020-10-0111 minAngelList India Radio#6 Archana Priyadarshini (PointOne Capital)Archana Priyadarshini is the founder of PointOne Capital. She has built a diverse portfolio of 35+ companies in sectors like FinTech, EdTech, consumer brands and gaming. Some of her portfolio companies are Bank Open, Trell, and Chingari. Prior to PointOne Capital, Archana was a partner at micro VC fund Unicorn India Ventures. She had founded and exited from a chain of fitness centers called Bootcamp Fitness Studio.
2020-10-0117 minAngelList India Radio#5 Adith Podhar (Gemba Capital)Adith Podhar is the Founding Partner at Gemba Capital, an early stage investment firm in India. Gemba Capital has invested in 20+ companies like Plum, ClickPost, Zuper, Upekkha, Finly, and many others. Prior to Gemba, Adith was VP at Motilal Oswal PE Fund, where his responsibility was across the investment cycle from deal sourcing to exit. Adith has also been an investment banker and founder of Crepeteria – a chain of quick serve restaurants. Adith is one of the few operators who has experience in both late stage and early stage investing.
2020-09-3017 minAngelList India Radio#4 Kushal Bhagia (First Cheque)Kushal Bhagia is the CEO of FirstCheque.vc, an early stage venture fund run by successful Indian Founders who have now turned angels. First Cheque has invested in 45+ early stage companies including multiple notable companies like Bellatrix Aerospace, FleetX, DrinkPrime, Yolobus and more. A BITS grad, Kushal earlier cofounded Nayi Disha Studios, an ed-tech company that built educational games for kindergarteners and subsequently led Corporate Partnerships at UpGrad. He enjoys reading, gaming, spending time with founders and helping underdogs win!
2020-09-2820 minAngelList India Radio#3 Sameer Brij Verma (Nexus Venture Partners)Sameer is a Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, where he opened & leads their Bangalore office. At Nexus, he has led investments in Postman, Unacademy, Hasura, Infra.market, Zolo, Ultrahuman, Zomato (via RoadRunnr), Rocketlane, Quandl (NASDAQ), Goodera, MayaData, Joveo, Jumbotail, MyUpchar, Goals101 & Indix (Avalara). Prior to Nexus, Sameer was the founding member at Reliance Capital’s early stage venture capital fund (Reliance Ventures) where he led investments in PayTM (stake acquired by Chinese internet giant), HealthSpring (Columbia Pacific), Tessolve Semiconductor (Hero Electronix), Dhama Innovations (buy-back), Greendust, Stoke (Mavenir Systems) & EBand Communications (CarrierCom). His operational expertise is product management, business de...
2020-09-2815 minAngelList India Radio#2 Sweta Rau (White Ventures)Sweta Rau is the founder of White Ventures that invests across India and Southeast Asia. She has built a diverse portfolio of 40+ Investments in FinTech, EdTech, consumer brands and gaming. Some of her early stage investments are Bank Open, YAP (M2P), Airmeet, Mauna.Ai, Vahdam Teas, Bare Anatomy, Uable, Exprs, Leap.Club, Trell, Cred, Mobile Premier League, Dunzo and many others in India and SEA. Prior to White Ventures, Sweta has worked with corporates like Wipro, IBM, Teradata, ICICI Infotech in data analytics and business intelligence space.
2020-09-2715 minAngelList India Radio#1 Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital)Vaibhav Domkundwar is the Founder & CEO at Better, an India-focused early stage venture firm with 70+ investments in category-defining companies like Rupeek, Open, Khatabook, Bijak, Airmeet, Fittr, Jupiter, Yulu and many others. Prior to Better, Vaibhav was the co-founder at Roamware, a leader in telecom analytics with 500+ carrier customers globally. Roamware was successfully acquired by private equity firm, Audax. Vaibhav is a UC Berkeley alum & a lifelong entrepreneur.
2020-09-2616 min
Hireworthy PodcastLearn all about ESOPs in India with Sahil TalwarIn a country that is low on Financial Literacy, Equities, ESOPs can be confusing for someone who has been offered some or has an opportunity to take them up. In collaboration with EquityList by AngelList India we bring you this episode which gives you the basics of ESOPs, Tax structure in India & some must knows. For this I speak to Sahil who is the Head of Customer Success at EquityList of AngelList India. Prior to AngelList, Sahil was part of Squad Inc and soon realised his love for building a customer success driven Organisation Culture. With roots...
2020-09-0647 min
The VCpreneur: Startups | Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | FundraisingEP#5 Sumukh Sridhara – Equity management for startups, the culture & founder mindset at AngelList, and the ‘startup OS’ approach to building productsIn today’s episode, Sumukh Sridhara, Founder & CEO @EquityList, joins our host Digjay, to discuss among other topics, AngelList's role at various stages of a startup’s lifecycle, how it is democratizing access to venture investing, the making of EquityList, how EquityList was born out of this startup OS approach to building products and the culture of having a founder mindset at AngelList.
Sumukh is the founder of EquityList, an equity management product for Indian companies. Sumukh also heads product & engineering at AngelList India, which as a platform, is the most active early stage investor in India. You...
2020-08-0933 min
The One Percent ProjectEpisode 11: Utsav Somani - Building AngelList IndiaAbout Utsav Somani:My next guest on The One Percent Project is the young and brilliant head of AngelList India Utsav Somani. Utsav talks about his early career, his mentor and AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, the evolution of the Indian start-up investment space, building AngelList India, and his view on COVID and its impact. Thank you to all our listeners for their feedback and questions, especially to Varun, Mahesh, Ashish and Aakriti for questions Utsav has answered in this conversation.Our Conversation:His early career and learnings of I...
2020-08-0328 min
Invest StreamPart 3 - Off the Beaten Path: Wall Street to Startup Investor - A Fireside Chat with Pankaj Jain, Founder of Invest StreamWho is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before?
I've been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, LTCM, operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at BarCamp Delhi, co-founder of HeadStart Network Foundation and Startup Weekend India.
I've been a venture capitalist at TLabs and 500 Startups, advisor to startups, funds and platforms like AngelList India and most recently, a dabbler in startup and venture capital related video content.
My friend and former colleague, Ritesh Bansal, suggested interviewing me on the show...
2020-07-3126 minInvest StreamPart 2 - Off the Beaten Path: Wall Street to Startup Investor - A Fireside Chat with Pankaj Jain, Founder of Invest StreamWho is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before?
I've been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, LTCM, operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at BarCamp Delhi, co-founder of HeadStart Network Foundation and Startup Weekend India.
I've been a venture capitalist at TLabs and 500 Startups, advisor to startups, funds and platforms like AngelList India and most recently, a dabbler in startup and venture capital related video content.
My friend and former colleague, Ritesh Bansal, suggested interviewing me on the show...
2020-07-3137 minInvest StreamPart 1 - Off the Beaten Path: Wall Street to Startup Investor - A Fireside Chat with Pankaj Jain, Founder of Invest StreamWho is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before?
I've been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, LTCM, operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at BarCamp Delhi, co-founder of HeadStart Network Foundation and Startup Weekend India.
I've been a venture capitalist at TLabs and 500 Startups, advisor to startups, funds and platforms like AngelList India and most recently, a dabbler in startup and venture capital related video content.
My friend and former colleague, Ritesh Bansal, suggested interviewing me on the show...
2020-07-3138 min
Stars & Startups with Varun VummidiA Coffee giveaway & EP18 on building a sports league in India!Hi listeners, we’re now on Episode 18! An episode where we chat with {Abhinandan of X1 Racing} about building a sports league in India.If you have some time I urge you to check out the library of content from awesome doers (17 episodes) that maybe useful to you. Share your favorite episode with me via Twitter?Listen to Episodes on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | StitcherWe have a Blue Tokai Coffee Giveaway following EP20 with Matt Chitharanjan that drops this coming week!I’m going to make this interesting: I want...
2020-07-0451 min
East West HurricaneUpdate #18 - India's Moment, EquityList, and Korea's BrandWelcome to East West Hurricane! 🌪We update you on the most essential news from Asia in tech, media, and business—the things you need to know that you probably haven’t heard in Western media.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram! ⚡️The Big Moment for Indian Tech 📱* India’s expulsion of 59 Chinese apps earlier this week is a watershed moment in Indian tech, depending on how long the ban lasts and what happens next. This op-ed by Vivek Wadhwa in the Hindustan Times describes some of the potential tech opportunities this gives to India, fram...
2020-07-0204 min
Stars & StartupsEP18: Building a sports league in India, first with Futsal & now in racing {Abhinandan of X1 Racing}Abhinandan (Abhi) is a Vellore Inst of Tech & Warwick grad who has built 3 businesses, Altflo, Chefhost & Liquity right from the moment he graduated. He also launched Premier Futsal prior to X1 Racing.
In his latest entrepreneurial venture Abhi has teamed up with 2 young racing drivers Aditya Patel and Armaan Ebrahim to launch the league X1 Racing League and Ultimate E . The league is not only very innovative but has gone about creating a moat from the beginning to capitalize on the growing interest in entertainment I.P being built out of India. We’re wi...
2020-07-0151 min
The Ishan ShowHow To Get PAID Remote Internships in 2020 India? | EARN From Home🔥🔥Getting an Internship is no easy task, and a PAID internship, is even more difficult. This is how you can get paid internships in India in 2020 during the summer time in lockdown period. The best way to get paid internships is Angellist, which connects startups with people who need jobs and internships. It has both paid and unpaid internships, but I have focused on getting paid one. The biggest mistake that most people make while applying for internships is that they dont apply to enough startups and so I encourage you to apply for as many paid...
2020-05-0506 min
The Neon ShowUtsav Somani, Partner AngelList IndiaUtsav Somani, Partner, AngelList India shares his experience at AngelList India & Syndicates (Private Single-deal VC funds led by Top Angels).Some of the Startups where Utsav has invested as angel investor are BharatPe, AdPushup, Innov8, CoinDCX, Elemential Labs, Sugar Cosmetics, LogiNext, ARATA, Stranger & Sons, Mall91, Pernia's Pop-up Shop.Some Questions answered by Utsav in this Podcast -1. What is a Syndicate & How does it work?2. What are the minimum requirements to become a General Partner in a Syndicate?3. How can first-time founders approach AngelList for raising funds?4. How many Startups have been funded by Syndicates in India until now?5. How...
2019-09-0136 min
Mind The Gap by FreshchatLast week in startups - India - Mind the Gap NewsIn total, this week, 12 startups raised $35.7 Mn funding and one startup acquisitions took place.
This week, this week one of the biggest funding rounds in the Indian startup ecosystem was raised by Bengaluru-based digital application provider for micro-merchants OkCredit. The startup raised $15.5 Mn in a Series A funding round led by New York-based investment fund Tiger Global. Morningside Venture Capital, Lightspeed India Partners, Venture Highway and Y Combinator also participated in this round of funding. The startup will use the funding to further scale its merchant user base, grow its team and execute on its product roadmap.
2019-06-1900 min
Candid Conversations with Amit PandeyCandid Conversations with Utsav Somani - AngelList IndiaHighlights from 1st Part (click here to read the full article):
- What are Syndicates & What’s in for Startups from AngelList India?
- Syndicate leads = Anchor?
- Some views on markets and competition, Exits, angel/venture investing…
- New initiatives?
and much more;
Highlights from 2nd Part (click here to read the read full article:
- Philosophy of finding yourself :)
- Crests and troughs in Life but live a life with zero regrets
- Rapid Fire
- Series of happy accidents, alternate life, to tweet or not t...
2019-03-1947 min
OutliersInside engineering at AngelList: Sumukh SridharaMost organisations have separate engineering, product and business teams. At AngelList, engineers are the owners of the product too. When AngelList started building out a product for India, Sridhara led the product development.
“That doesn’t mean you have to do all that (product, business, legal) all by yourself, but it’s pretty much like running your own company,”says, Sridhara, a University of California, Berkeley graduate in computer science.
2018-06-2122 min
OutliersInside AngelList’s future: Naval RavikantOrganisations, like people, can be outliers too.
Since December 2016, I have had conversations with 59 individual outliers; a journey where me and hopefully you too, have learned with each episode.
With this episode of Outliers podcast, we’re kind of breaking away from the mold and expanding these conversations to companies and organizations that are outliers in the way they behave, their mission, and so on.
AngelList has been an outlier from the start in February 2010 when Naval Ravikant along with his co-blogger at Venture Hacks Babak Nivi, started with a group of investors.
“AngelList was started to help startups with thei...
2018-06-2127 min
1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast201st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Utsav Somani, Angel Investor, AngelList India - 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship PodcastUtsav Somani, Angel Investor at AngelList India, talks about the newly launched AngelList India.
2018-05-1124 min
Paisa Vaisa with Anupam GuptaEp. 95: Startup Investing feat. Utsav Somani of AngelList India - Part 2This is a special edition of Paisa Vaisa featuring Mr. Utsav Somani, who is the India adviser for AngelList India. In the second part of this series, Utsav talks to Anupam about startup investing from the point of view of an investor, and how they can find good entrepreneurs to invest in. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omny...
2018-03-1225 min
Paisa Vaisa with Anupam GuptaEp. 94: How can AngelList help you in funding your startup?How can AngelList India help you in funding your startup? How do you log on to the AngelList India platform? What can you expect and what do you do once your account is created? You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2018-03-0802 min
Paisa Vaisa with Anupam GuptaEp. 93: Startup Investing feat. Utsav Somani of AngelList IndiaThis is a special edition of Paisa Vaisa featuring Mr. Utsav Somani, who is the India adviser for AngelList India. In the first part of this series, Utsav talks to Anupam about startup investing, how it works, and how an entrepreneur should approach funding. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcast App on Android: https://goo.gl/tGYdU1 or iOS: https://goo.gl/sZSTU5 You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2018-03-0525 min
OutliersEp 34: Ashish Sinha on Indian startups’ underbelly and going back to his product rootsDepending on who you ask in the Indian startup ecosystem, Ashish Sinha, an IIT, IIM graduate and a former Yahoo product manager, could have built an AngelList to a TechCrunch equivalent from this part of the world. For his part, he did try attempting doing these. And he failed. Not for any lack of network or the knowhow, but because he did not agree with the rules of the game.
Since Sinha quit his Yahoo job in May 2009, Shradha Sharma has built and scaled startup news site www.YourStory.com to be India’s biggest media platform for entrepreneurs, and An...
2017-09-1545 min