1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There are a lot of SaaS platforms that are entrenched in enterprise workflow and they have a lot of customers. The one that you are talking about is going after customers that are deeply entrenched in Zoom for example. To what extent is a company like this leveraging that deep penetration of another

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about companies that are uniquely Indian? What about enterprise software that is facing the global market? India is facing e-commerce and the whole digital commerce world. What about categories or styles of companies that are uniquely Indian? Is that on your radar? Vishesh Rajaram: If they are on the enterprise side, they

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the second company? What sector was it in? Vishesh Rajaram: I’m not going to name the second one too much. This is a company that was developing tools to enable developing 3D and VR content for e-commerce. They were acquired by a large retail e-commerce group.  Sramana Mitra: Also in India?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest (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 Vishesh Rajaram was recorded in November 2020. Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner, Speciale Invest, discusses his fund’s investment thesis.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vinny Lingham of NewTown Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about strategic? What role do you see Naspers playing? Naspers has played a big role in exits in India. What is their position in Africa? Vinny Lingham: Naspers is a really good investment house. They’re really good at later stage and not early stage. Sramana Mitra: They’re good at exits.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vinny Lingham of NewTown Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Have you invested in any of these ICO-based or token-based ventures? Vinny Lingham: Yes, I’m going to do another one called Augmentors. It’s a gaming product. They have a really good token called Databits, which they’ve spun out. It’s basically an augmented reality game. It’s pretty fascinating. Sramana Mitra: What is your estimate

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Vinny Lingham of NewTown Partners (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 Vinny Lingham was recorded in November 2017. Vinny Lingham, Co-founder and CEO, Civic.com, and Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, discusses his investment thesis in B-to-C seed ventures. We also discuss the role ICOs are

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Catching Up On Readings: Media Mania

If you have missed these posts from my recent writings, today may be a good time to catch up on some reading: First, in the blogosphere, online media, old and new media, advertising – big changes have taken place. Here is a set of posts from the Deal Radar series that might help you make

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