Sramana Mitra: How big is the work force? Sanjay Jupudi: We just touched 250 people. Sramana Mitra: How many customers are you servicing? Sanjay Jupudi: About 30 customers. The good part of what we have done is when we go to customers, we are doing a lot of work for customers instead of just touching
Sramana Mitra: I’ve known George Zachary for a long time. When I started One Million by One Million, he was one of the people who wanted to invest. I’ve had interactions with CRV for many years. What is the current fund size? Devdutt Yellurkar: Fund 17 is a $600 million fund. Sramana Mitra: What check
Sramana Mitra: What you said about diversity is music to our ears because that’s our community. We’re very happy to see that that’s what you are doing and that people are paying attention to this issue a lot more right now. That’s progress for sure. Let me ask you a little bit more about the
Arka Venture Labs and the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator announce a partnership to benefit Indian B-to-B cloud startups by together offering access to deeper connections into Silicon Valley and comprehensive startup mentoring. Arka Venture Labs brings together three venture firms who provide the initial capital and open their networks to
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little bit about this process of brainstorming about what you were going to focus on in the next company. What was the process with coming up with where you were going to place your bet? Sanjay Jupudi: There was a quality assurance company that was hiring people to test applications.
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Devdutt Yellurkar was recorded in July 2018. Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV, discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion! Sramana Mitra: The first thing I’d like to do is
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Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Miriam Rivera was recorded in October 2018. Miriam Rivera, Partner at Ulu Ventures, a firm committed to diversity as its core investment philosophy. Sramana Mitra: In order to introduce you to our