Sramana Mitra: If you look at your last 12 months of deal flow, what do you see as standout trends in the Indian market? What do you see as interesting? Sateesh Andra: We look for B2B companies that are in cyber security, semiconductors, digital health, and medical devices. Our investment approach is about 15 investments
Sramana Mitra: Abhishek, you wanted to talk about one of your companies that already had an exit. Abhishek Srivastava: This is a company called Shield Square, a cyber security company. They had built a cloud-based, real-time bot intervention solution. All online digital asset, whether it’s e-commerce, travel site, or financial services, have been constantly facing
Sramana Mitra: Do you want to talk about any other company? Sateesh Andra: I’ll switch to an India team company. Abhishek managed the company. He had an exit in the first three years. It was a cyber security company that’s selling in Europe, US, and India. But there’s this India-themed FinTech company called Kissht. They
Sramana Mitra: As you probably know, my background is in computer architecture. I was in the parallel computing part of MIT’s projects back in the mid-90s. Funding for chip companies has gone down tremendously. Almost no one in the Indian venture ecosystem is willing or equipped to do chips. I’m actually thrilled to hear that
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start talking about Endiya Partners. How big is the fund? What is your preference in terms of where you want to invest in? What kind of stage? Sateesh Andra: Our fund is around 175 crores. We’ve made 12 investments. Sramana Mitra: That’s about $35 million. Sateesh Andra: Yes. In the early days,
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Sateesh Andra was recorded in April 2019. Endiya Partners’ founding team – Managing Director Sateesh Andra, Managing Director Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni, Director Abhishek Srivastava – talk about their Seed and Pre-Series A
Endiya Partners’ founding team – Managing Director Sateesh Andra, Managing Director Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni and Director Abhishek Srivastava – talk about their Seed and Pre-Series A VC fund focused on India.