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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju of Wipro Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What about geography? Venu Pemmaraju: The companies that we invest in must have a go-to market play in North America. Therefore, they should have a leadership presence in North America. For example, in our current portfolio, we have companies with headquarters in Israel, India, and in the US. Just to add to that,
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kerry Rupp of True Wealth 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 Kerry Rupp was recorded in October 2018. Kerry Rupp, Partner at True Wealth Ventures, discusses their women-focused investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you introduced to our audience. Tell us about your investing
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju of Wipro Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The question I’m asking is a little bit beyond what you just answered. Let us say we have a company that we want to send to you for investment. This company already has product-market fit. It is already deployed in major customers. It’s understood that it fits your stage requirement and validation requirement.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: For just your niche, you’re seeing a couple of hundred ventures from that hinterland. It’s actually very encouraging that that much entrepreneurial activity is happening in that region. That means that other sectors are getting into entrepreneurship as well. Conceivably, there are around 500 to 1,000 startups in action in that geography. Milos
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju of Wipro 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 Milos Sochor was recorded in June 2018. Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju are Co-Heads of Wipro Ventures. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about yourselves as well as Wipro Ventures. Let’s introduce
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Capital-efficient company building that goes straight into acquisition is a very good model for entrepreneurs, especially entrepreneurs doing it for the first time. I see no problem at all with that model. I think it’s a great model. Milos Sochor: I hope we play a big role. Like I said, Y Soft has
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Milos Sochor of Y Soft Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I have a couple of questions on this one. What is the competitive landscape of something like this when you’re investing in something like this in your local geography? Milos Sochor: They’re often mistaken with companies that provide Bluetooth and RFID technologies. I would move those more into the consumer space. Savio provides
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures (Part 6)
Ravi Mohan: The last company is a company called Analpan. Anaplan is really taking Excel and putting it in the cloud so businesses can plan better and really model any type of business problem. How do I do my financial plans for the year? How do I do my workforce plans for the year? They’ve
