Sramana Mitra: You mentioned traction. For Mumbai Angels to be interested in a company, what kind of traction do you want to see? It sounds like you don’t do concept financing, do you? Nandini Mansinghka: We would do concept financing. We will fund anything which is a people company. It’s not an idea stage that
Exciting news: Future Today, a One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) incubated company, has been acquired by entertainment distributor and digital-network operator Cinedigm for $60 Million. Buy Side The acquisition is seen as evidence of Cinedigm “making a big new leap into online video” according to Variety, with Future Today being an ad-supported VOD network
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Yash Hemaraj was recorded in February 2019. Yash Hemaraj, Founding Partner at Arka Venture Labs and Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), discusses Arka’s recent partnership with 1Mby1M to accelerate Indian B2B
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 437th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 28, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others
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Sramana Mitra: What about sectors? Of course, India has gone through a lot of different cycles already in terms of sector popularity and experiments. So what are your conclusions and investment thesis around sectors at this point? Nandini Mansinghka: That’s a very interesting question. We’ve seen a slight shift in the trend over the years.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sumant Mandal, Managing Director at March Capital Partners, a firm that invests largely in enterprise facing businesses with deep technical differentiation. The conversation includes excellent insights into the changing dynamics of the networking space and how companies like Cisco and Juniper are managing their existential threats.