From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What about team? You and your co-founder brought it to almost one million ARR an a bit of seed funding. How did you build the team from there on? Deepak Gupta: Team was one big challenge for us. We had never done teambuilding exercises before. That was something new. We got some initial

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From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What were the components of the full authentication? Deepak Gupta: We did a user name and password with social login. We were managing the full login and registration. Pretty much the whole element of login, registration, forgot password, and user activation. Sramana Mitra: Were you still just within the Drupal ecosystem?

From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In what timeframe did you zero in on the pricing model? Deepak Gupta: We did experiments on pricing. After 9 to 12 months, we got to a decent pricing model. Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about those experiments? What was working and not working?

From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you get done in those few months when you still had the job? Deepak Gupta: At the beginning, there was a little hesitation whether the product was going to work. As soon as we launched, we started getting customers. Customers started asking questions. In those few months, I saw that there

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From Developer to Cyber Security Entrepreneur with $10M Revenue and $18M Funding: LoginRadius CEO Deepak Gupta (Part 1)

Deepak tells a textbook story of a developer turned entrepreneur. He and his cofounder started by bootstrapping with a paycheck, validated the hypothesis, and then quit their jobs. We love stories like this, as you know. Sramana Mitra: Tell me where you’re from, born, raised. What kind of background?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: One of the trends that we see in the Indian small funds is that some of them are exiting their investments into the Series C or Series D. Is that something you are doing? Deepak Gupta: That is certainly a path for us. Unless we keep investing substantially in the later rounds, it

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures (Part 1)

Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures, discusses his fund’s pre-seed and seed funding strategy for Indian startups. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about yourself as well as WEH Ventures. Deepak Gupta: I had been part of the venture ecosystem over the last 20 years off and on. In the last six or seven

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554th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Gupta, WEH Ventures

Deepak Gupta, Founding Partner at WEH Ventures, discusses his fund’s pre-seed and seed funding strategy for Indian startups.