Catching Up On Readings: IPO Recap

This feature from NASDAQ brings the highlights of the five IPOs in the past week. These included the health clinic unicorn One Medical (ONEM) and titan of tin foil Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN). For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Roundtable Recap: January 30 – Spotlight on Startups in Africa

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, who discussed startups and venture capital in Africa.

Burloe
First up, today, was Parinita Hendre from Mumbai, India, pitching Burloe, an e-commerce company focused on shoes and accessories.

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Roundtable Recap: January 23 – Focus Relentlessly

During this week’s roundtable, I worked with five entrepreneurs.

Ouja
First up today was Anandth Shoban from Chennai, India, pitching Ouja,
a hyperlocal delivery service. Anandth plans to do other services like taxi,
etc. which I discouraged him to get into. One business is hard enough to build. Focus is of paramount importance.

Constructiv
Next, Thomas Jones from Falmouth, UK, pitched Constructiv, a construction industry recruitment portal for the UK. I like the focused approach.

Tiny
Then Zachary Silverzweig from New York, NY, pitched Tiny, an innovative approach to teaching kids how to read English. I really like the concept and the focused approach.

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Roundtable Recap: December 19 – Wisdom for Startups Selling Deeptech to Enterprises

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures. Karthee and I discussed issues related to startups selling deeptech to enterprises.

Find Me Parking

As for pitches, first up today was Prashant Patil from Pune, India, pitching a concept-stage app for real time parking availability.

Cyber2bee Technologies

Next, Prem Kumar from Tamil Nadu, India, pitched Cyber2bee Technologies, an attempt to go against players like BigBasket in e-commerce.

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Roundtable Recap: November 27 – Fundamentals-Focused Venture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners. Nexus is a fundamentals focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu took us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation.

Boozimba

Up first, we had Shubhojyoti Ganguly from Bangalore, India, pitch Boozimba. It is a robotics product catering to bars for mixing cocktails. Very interesting.

Bring It!

From Lyndhurst, Australia, Nushan Anguru pitched Bring It! A services for local small businesses like butchers to offer their products and services online. Bring It! Would also take care of the delivery.

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Literati Reading List

In 2016, I started a literary group focused on serious literary works. Here is the list of books for our Caravanserai Literati.

Roundtable Recap: November 21 – A Superb Discussion on Artificial Intelligence

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Arijit Sengupta, Founder and CEO at Aible. Previously, Arijit founded another AI startup, BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce.com. This was an excellent discussion, and I urge you to check it out.

Ederlabs

As for the pitches, up first, we had Sharat Satyanarayana from Bangalore, India, pitch Ederlabs, an AI data privacy protection startup that is in the 1Mby1M Premium program.

Suquino

Next we had Ravi Amble from Sunnyvale, California, pitch Suquino, a telehealth startup.

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Roundtable Recap: November 14 – An FFF Financing Case Study

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Kevin Groome, Founder at Pica9, who discussed his journey of building a capital efficient company with just friends and family financing.

Continube

As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Raj Krishnamurthy from Fremont, California, pitching Continube, a product focused on the Cyber Insurance sector.

LayerFive

Then, Sushil Goel from Fremont, California, pitched LayerFive, an AI product focused on the MarTech Consumer Identity Management problem.

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