Roundtable Recap: October 16 – AI Investment Thesis with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Sandeep Sardana, Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures, discuss his firm’s vertical AI investment thesis.

Beards & Shears

As for the pitches, first up today, we had Shubham Mishra from Pune, India, pitch Beards & Shears, a men’s grooming brand.

Korture

Next we had Shishir Modur and SK Prasad from Bangalore, India, pitch Korture, an HR Tech product.

Elixir Labs

Then Rakshit Bondwal from Delhi, India pitched Elixir Labs, a vibe coding tool.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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October 16 – 704th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 704th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to Pitch and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to Attend to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be Interested.

703rd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: September 25 – Top-Down TAM is Useless

During this week’s roundtable, we had five pitches from entrepreneurs. I keep repeating myself: Top-down TAM doesn’t matter. You must come up with Bottom-Up TAM. If you need help, please upload your slide deck to our AI Mentor and ask for help modeling TAM.

Daksha

First up, today, we had Manuj Gupta from Noida, India, pitch Daksha, an employee training platform that is already in revenue.

AthrvCloud

Then we had Jayanta Panda from Bhubaneswar, India, pitch AthrvCloud, a DevOps platform that has also started seeing some customer interest.

AceAbhishek.com

Next Abhishek Awalkar from Pune, India pitched AceAbhishek.com, a concept-stage security venture.

MyVendorStore

Then we had Ananthu Raju from Bangalore, India, pitch MyVendorStore, a marketplace for live EdTech courses.

ShelfEx

Later, Gaurav Sethi from Haryana, India, pitched ShelfEx.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an EdTech Venture to $6M

Prepory CEO Daniel Santos’ story is a great example of an EdTech company that has built a validated, bootstrapped, profitable business that can potentially be scaled using AI.

Sramana Mitra: Alright, Daniel, let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of background?

Daniel Santos: I was born and raised in South Florida. I was born in a small community called Opa-locka, raised in Hialeah. They’re generally low-income, primarily Latino populations. My parents were first-generation immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

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September 25 – 703rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 703rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 5 p.m. CEST / 8:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to Pitch and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to Attend to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be Interested.

702nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: September 11 – The 1Mby1M AI Mentor Does Some Things Better than Me

During this week’s roundtable, we had four excellent discussions on entrepreneur pitches.

EV Ecosystem

First up we had Yves Nzuzi-Khuabi from Lake Macquarie, Australia, pitch EV Ecosystem, a 2-sided marketplace for electric vehicle accessories and services.

Surge

Then we had Ishu Darshan from Gurugram, India, pitch Surge, a team collaboration product.

Marketta

Then Sean Morris from Kerry, Ireland, pitched Marketta, a customer survey product.

Detoxit

Last we had Utkarsh Pandey from Lucknow, India, pitch Detoxit, an app for detoxing from phone and social media addiction.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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