Anshu Sharma is an active angel investor who invests in Silicon Valley and India. Anshu has deep experience in the enterprise software space, and a thoughtful, sophisticated perspective. He is one of the early investors in Nutanix, which currently has a market cap of over $8.5 billion in the public market.
Sramana Mitra: Talk about your portfolio. What have you invested in? What’s interesting? Take a few highlights of your portfolio and walk us through what they are, why you’ve invested in them, and what is the thought process. Nitin Pachisia: We’ve made 18 investments in two and a half years, which is reflective of our
By Guest Author Anita M. Sands Twenty-three years ago, I embarked upon my professional life as a physics student in Belfast. This foray into adulthood included two immediate discoveries: my commencing class was only 10% female, and I was to be taught almost exclusively by male professors. Needless to say, it became obvious that doing well
Sramana Mitra: Any other ideas that you’ve picked up while keeping your eyes and ears open? Dave Excell: The reason why a business like us exists is that fraud is able to take place. If you look at a lot of fraud stories, it’s due to the lack of authentication on transactions. If you can
Mack Sundaram: Exactly. There’s always that human psychology element that tells you, “Maybe you’re not ready. Maybe you should wait another year.” That was one side of the brain holding me back. At the same time, since I’d already tasted being in a startup situation a decade before that, the lure of that novelty was
Ashwini Anburajan, Founding Partner of 22X Fund, a tokenized fund that is investing across 30 portfolio companies. It’s a very interesting experiment and you will enjoy listening to some cutting edge FinTech thought leadership.
Dennis Joyce, Investor and Member of Alliance of Angels, talks about the largest Angel group in the Pacific Northwest.
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Nitin Pachisia was recorded in October 2017. Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures, discusses pre-seed and seed investing. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Unshackled Ventures. What is the focus of the firm? How