685th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Manu Rekhi, Inventus Capital Partners

Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

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AI Startups Internship Summer 2025

If you have an interest in artificial intelligence, as well as a strong interest in entrepreneurship and starting a business, this is the internship for you.

One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) is the first global virtual accelerator, headquartered in Silicon Valley. We aim to nurture a million entrepreneurs to reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures (Part 1)

Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures, discusses his firm’s AI investment thesis.

1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures (Part 1)

Mark Phillips, Founder and Managing Partner at 11 Tribes Ventures, discusses a non-Unicorn chasing investment thesis.

Roundtable Recap: April 24 – AI Investment Thesis with Piyush Kharbanda, Vertex Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Piyush Kharbanda, General Partner at Vertex Ventures discuss his firm’s AI investment thesis.

KLVIN

As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Vinay Kumar Kolusu from Hyderabad, India, pitch KLVIN, an India-facing B2B SaaS play.

Prosperity CoPilot

Then we had Martin Athanas from Mumbai, India, pitch Prosperity CoPilot, a B2C Freemium play.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors (Part 1)

Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors, discusses his firm’s AI Investment Thesis. We have a very strategic discussion on SaaS, Marketplaces and Agentic AI.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a New Age AI Services Venture

CEO Anji Maram has bootstrapped CriticalRiver to $50M in revenue and is introducing AI into his services business model. We expect to see a lot of this happening all over the tech services ecosystem. AI Services is going to become a massively valuable category.

Sramana Mitra: All right, Anji, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of background?

Anji Maram: I’m originally from India as you can tell by my name. I’m from a small village in Andhra Pradesh in South India. It has a very small population that is pretty much into farming community. My parents did not study, my siblings did not study. I somehow ended up studying.

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Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you quit and then start or did you start while you still had your job? How did you get started?