Best of Bootstrapping: Discussing the Evolution of the Indian Startup Industry with Sasha Mirchandani, Kae Capital

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Sasha Mirchandani is Founder and Managing Director of Kae Capital, an early stage fund focused on India. I’ve known Sasha for over a decade, and we discuss the evolution of the Indian startup industry at length. You can listen to the podcast interview here

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital 2020 (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that you want to highlight from your experience or portfolio before we move to the entrepreneur pitches? Sasha Mirchandani:  What we’ve learned over the years is that large markets are critical. A lot of times, we go after really good entrepreneurs, but the reality is going after a very

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital 2020 (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are the highlights of your portfolio currently? If you have exited some, you can talk about those as well. Sasha Mirchandani: Before I co-founded Kae capital, we’ve done several investments which were very successful like Myntra. We did a company where I am still a shareholder. I was the first investor in

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital 2020 (Part 4)

Sasha Mirchandani: We have a company called Wysa, a mental health chatbox based out of Bangalore. The bulk of their opportunities is in the North American market. Post-COVID, we have all seen the value of taking care of people’s mental health. It’s a major problem, but it’s a stigma, which is unfortunate. Wysa has done

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital 2020 (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s unpack each of those a little bit. Let’s talk about B2C tech India-facing. Although we talked about the 1.3 billion population and a much larger market, internet consumers are a segment of spenders. They are the high-income educated group that is technologically savvy. Along the way entered Reliance Jio and democratized access

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital 2020 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You talked about the investor trends. Let’s talk about the sectors and the types of industries that have done well. There are several in the wings right now that are going public in the US. Druva is going to go public probably next year. Freshworks is going to go public relatively soon. There

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital 2020 (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 Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Director at Kae Capital, was recorded in December 2020. Sasha Mirchandani is Founder and Managing Director of Kae Capital, an early stage fund focused on India. I’ve known Sasha

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513th Roundtable Recording on December 17, 2020: With Sasha Mirchandani, Kae Capital

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 513th 1Mby1M Roundtable Dec. 17, 2020: With Sasha Mirchandani, Kae Capital