Christopher Mirabile is Senior Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group. We have an awesome conversation about a non-Unicorn chasing investment philosophy.
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Sramana Mitra: It’s true about men also. Unless you come from our kinds of backgrounds, you don’t reach this community. If you come from an average background, you don’t have much of a choice than go through the bootstrapping route. We belong to a very privileged elite class of people who have access. Most of the industries don’t have that access.
Aparna Dhinakaran: Maybe we agree to disagree on this one.
>>>Sramana Mitra: You believe there is a bias from customers?
Aparna Dhinakaran: No, I think there is a bias in the tech industry itself. In general, there are not that many women that go into AI. I don’t think that we can argue that we’ve reached a neutral point. If I saw that in reality, there would be more women founders.
Sramana Mitra: I’m not asking you the question on statistics. I’m asking about your personal experience. Do you face bias from customers?
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BV Jagadeesh, Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures, and a super accomplished serial entrepreneur, discusses funding Bootstrapping with Services ventures.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rahul Chandra, Managing Director at Arkam Ventures, a veteran of the Indian Venture Capital industry. The discussion spanned historical context to current Unicorn mania. Great analysis!
Lumenasia
As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Ashwini Padiyar from Mumbai, India, pitch Lumenasia, a firm assembling manufacturing reps for the lighting industry.
Hyberconnect
Then we had Rajiv Kumar Singh from Asansol, India, pitch Hyperconnect, an electric vehicle charger company.
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