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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anirudh Suri of India Internet Fund (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 Anirudh Suri was recorded in December 2017. Anirudh Suri, Founding Partner at India Internet Fund, talks about the funding trends in the Indian startup market. Sramana Mitra: Help us introduce you to our audience.
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Ho of Fika Ventures (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How do you process the current investment climate where capital is moving further and further upstream with all these larger funds wanting to invest in much larger Series A deals, how does a seed investor or entrepreneur mitigate the Series A gap? There’s clearly a Series A gap. 50,000 to 70,000 seed-stage investments
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Ho of Fika Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: In the 1,500 deals that you’ve seen this year, is this a trend that there are a lot of archaic industries getting heavy infusion in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and you’re seeing entrepreneurs emerge in those categories. Eva Ho: Absolutely. When we were working on Factual in 2007, we were pitching big
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Eva Ho of Fika 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 Fika Ventures was recorded in December 2017. Eva Ho, General Partner at Fika Ventures, discusses their investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about the focus of the fund. How big is it? What are you
Crowdfunding Startups: Opportunities and Bottlenecks
There has been a bit of action for a while now in the crowdfunding world, and certain startups have been able to get themselves off the ground using the Kickstarter / Indiegogo style sites. By and large, these types of financings have gone to companies that are building physical products, digital games, etc. Fundings have
How To Navigate the Seed Capital Gap in India
Even though interest in entrepreneurship is at its highest in India, the country has a nominal seed capital infrastructure. As you know, I concern myself with issues of scalability and pipeline building. The question that I have been pondering for the last ten years is: how do you develop a sustainable pipeline of entrepreneurs? Of
Pre-Seed Money via Crowdfunding: A Conversation with PleaseFund.Us’ James Bailey
James Bailey completed his economics degree at Durham University in 2005 and started working in a technical role at data marketing specialist Dunnhumby on the campaigns team. After leaving Dunnhumby, James worked full time on a large property development in Morocco. He approached Tarkan Ahmet with the goal to create the UK’s best crowdfunding platform
Seed Capital Using Crowdfunding: Korstiaan Zandvliet, CEO of Symbid, Amsterdam (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: For investors with zero or limited experience in pre-seed or seed investment, what do you do to mitigate their risks? Of course, this is a highly risky business. How do you recommend or help your investors evaluate deals? Korstiaan Zandvliet: I think the second part of the interview addresses risk analysis and risk
