1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What did Cuivviv come to you with? Shripati Acharya: They actually had the product. They were seeing initial traction. They might have had a hundred thousand questions in total. Today, a billion questions are solved on the platform. What I really liked about it is, they had an understanding and connected with the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Cristobal Perdomo of Jaguar Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Cristobal Perdomo was recorded in May 2019. Cristobal Perdomo is Co-Founder and General Partner at Jaguar Ventures, a venture fund that invests in Latin America. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get to know you.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You’re based in Bangalore? Shripati Acharya: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: Do all the companies need to be in Bangalore? Shripati Acharya: Most of our companies are in Bangalore. We do have companies in Delhi. There is more effort to do that. We have to make that extra effort.

Catching Up On Readings: Acquisitions in 2019

This feature from Nasdaq looks at major acquisitions in the first half of 2019. Though the number of M&A deals in the first half of 2019 is up by nearly 10%, the average value of the deals is down by 15.5%. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (Part 2)

Shripati Acharya: The reason we say we’re the first institutional check is that we are fairly comfortable in ambiguity in the company. This dovetails into your second question, which is what we are looking for. We are looking for a thesis from the entrepreneur – a conviction of what they’re trying to build, which exhibits

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripati Acharya of Prime Venture Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Shripati Acharya was recorded in April 2019. Shripati Acharya is Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, advising Prime Venture Partners, a firm focused on core technology ventures in India. Unlike most VCs, Prime

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I was just talking about trends in various kinds of lending businesses. If you look at QuickBooks financing, it’s Intuit’s product. They’re lending to small businesses that use QuickBooks online. The dataset they’re using to evaluate is QuickBooks data. That’s a proprietary dataset that nobody else has access to. It’s an unfair advantage

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448th Roundtable Recording on June 27, 2019: With Nnamdi Okike, 645 Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: