430th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nandini Mansinghka, Mumbai Angels Network

Nandini Mansinghka is CEO and Managing Director at Mumbai Angels Network, one of the oldest angel networks in India.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: David Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Again, from a trend point of view, you’re sitting at an interesting vantage point. Where are the entrepreneurs? You gave me an idea about where the investors are. You said France is seeing a new angel investment surge, as are India and the U.S. Where are you seeing entrepreneurial activities? David Rose: Countries

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: You invest not only in technology companies but in companies in other sectors, right? Pravin: Yes. India has many opportunities and challenges; technology adoption is not the best here. There are enough opportunities in different business models on how to do things better and more efficiently.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: How many people do you have working in your incubator now? Pravin: We have four outside advisors who work once a month or once a week, with these companies depending on the requirements. We have somebody who understands retail, somebody who understands the Internet, or somebody

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: How do you find your current deals? Pravin: We have been in the game since 1990. Individually, we are quite well known in the early-stage business. Because we have been around, we have a very good network with investment bankers, and we are very active in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Pravin: So, we went with an idea of a $50 million fund. It turned out to be quite easy to raise and within six months we were all ready to go. We had interest from variety of funds. We could have raised more money but we didn’t

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Pravin Gandhi, Seedfund – Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, India (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay I am talking to Pravin Gandhi, a founding partner at Seedfund, which is one of the India’s leading early-stage venture capital funds, with operations in Mumbai, Bangalore and New Delhi. Seedfund was founded in 2006 by Bharati Jacob, Mahesh Murthy, and Pravin Gandhi.  In 2010, they raised

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Amit Grover, Member, Mumbai Angels (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What can investors do to be more successful? Amit: We need to devote more time to the companies we invest in. We need to give them more customer references. Early-stage companies lack a lot of things that angel investors or successful entrepreneurs can bring them. On

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