
Risk tolerance in Indian professionals has risen significantly. It is no longer a goal to seek fat salaries at multinational firms. Finally, in India, like in the US, the idea of creating something new entices people, even if it means entertaining a high chance of failure.
>>>Sramana Mitra: My observation is that the higher end of the market is extremely active. I wouldn’t say crowded, but there’s a lot of competition. There is concept arbitrage. There have been successful companies built by copying models from elsewhere and then innovating on top of that. That’s happening in the global tech space.
Then there’s the higher-end B2C space where there is this large population of internet users who are quite affluent. The market that you’re talking about, is it as crowded? Is it as active?
>>>Sramana Mitra: You are investing post-revenue. What benchmarks are you using to gauge whether you can build a venture-scale company?
Eva Yazhari: Because we’re a multi-sector fund, a lot of our metrics relate to specific sectors. Often, we’re looking at the growth of average order value. If it’s more of a services company, we’re looking at the growth of their contracts, the relationships that they have, and the booked contracts that they have. A lot of it is centered around the ability of the company to take what it is doing now and take that to scale.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Gans Subramanian, Managing Partner at Hourglass Venture Partners, and a former 1Mby1M Premium member who has now formed his own venture fund.
Homeroots
As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Gil Bar-Lev from Fairfield, New Jersey, pitch Homeroots, a company already beyond $5M in annual revenue, looking to raise a Series A.
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Eva Yazhari, General Partner at Beyond Capital Ventures, discusses Impact Investing in Africa and India.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Beyond Capital Ventures. Tell us a bit about your background and what you’re trying to do with Beyond Capital.
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Europe is now home to numerous Unicorns, and investors are becoming more ambitious all the time. Despite this, some of Europe’s traditional practicality remains, and another positive development is growing ties between European investors and their American counterparts.
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