1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I was just talking about trends in various kinds of lending businesses. If you look at QuickBooks financing, it’s Intuit’s product. They’re lending to small businesses that use QuickBooks online. The dataset they’re using to evaluate is QuickBooks data. That’s a proprietary dataset that nobody else has access to. It’s an unfair advantage

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 5)

Sarbvir Singh: We believe that just focusing on size and hungry businesses is not always the right solution. We want to rightsize our fund. There is also the reality of running a fund and there is a cost to it. You have to get both sides right. There are different solutions that people can arrive

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The second question I have is what is your analysis of the trend of small funds like yourself that are doing the early-stage investments exiting into the later rounds. Do you see that happening a lot in the Indian ecosystem right now? Sarbvir Singh: We look at it in two ways. It is

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on some of the companies that you have funded. As you talk about them, talk about what situation were they in when you got involved. What did they have by way of proof points that you resonate with. Let’s start with the one that you already exited. Sarbvir Singh: The

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In the case where people have raised some money before, just raising money doesn’t qualify people for another round of funding. There need to be metrics. I was more interested in what those are. Sarbvir Singh: In those situations, they have the resources to build something out there. There are customers. In some

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sarbvir Singh of WaterBridge Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Sarbvir Singh was recorded in April 2019. Sarbvir Singh, Managing Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, talks about the firm’s India-focused investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about WaterBridge Ventures. What are your activities?

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11 Podcasts with VCs Interested in Indian Startups

Indian entrepreneurs should listen to this set of podcasts to get into the minds of investors who offer invaluable insights. Naren Gupta, Nexus Ventures – As a co-founder of a firm with an excellent track record of investing in the Silicon Valley – India corridor, but with a global market point of view, Naren shares

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Venture Capital in India: Ashish Gupta (Part 7)

SM: I think the individual-led incubator model is the best one for India. AG: A lot of these education institutions are hampered by the fact that the quality of mentors to the entrepreneurs is not high. They continue to labor under serious delusions as to what constitutes a business.