Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Comparables are Key

As our guest this week, we had Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures. We discussed his firm’s investment hypothesis.

Everydae

As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Christine Outram pitching Everydae, an educational app venture. I suggested to Christine to investigate comparables for her venture. In 2020, with so much innovation already under way, competition and comparables are areas that investors cannot ignore.

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Roundtable Recap: February 13 – You Have 30 Seconds to Capture My Attention

As our guest this week, we had Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. We discussed his fund’s focus and preferences.

PhonePass

As for entrepreneur pitches, first up we had Shantanu Bhattacharya from Canberra, Australia, pitch PhonePass, a two-factor authentication technology.

Liglo

Then we had Nickson Zachary from Nairobi, Kenya, pitch Liglo, a mobile personal finance management app.

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470th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, discusses startups and venture capital in Africa.

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Roundtable Recap: January 30 – Spotlight on Startups in Africa

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, who discussed startups and venture capital in Africa.

Burloe
First up, today, was Parinita Hendre from Mumbai, India, pitching Burloe, an e-commerce company focused on shoes and accessories.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture Partners (Part 4)

Jishnu Battacharjee: There are two core principles for Unacademy. One is that the educator can build the content easily. The second is, the content is bite-sized. The idea was, you can talk about a topic but it cannot be more than five minutes. That whole theme took off.

Fast forward to now, they are serving 10 million people across the country. Suppose I release content and students start using it. Based on the student reception, I get a rating. Unacademy then organizes live classes for the interested students who want to go deeper. Those are paid.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is Abhinav the CEO?

Jishnu Battacharjee: That’s correct. He has two other co-founders. In 2017, we started thinking of what we should do regarding monetization. 2018 was our first year of monetization. At this point, it was tripling every year with cash added into the bank.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When I think about Nexus, one company comes to mind immediately, which is one of the biggest and oldest success stories in India. It’s Druva. The company is maturing very well. I wouldn’t call that exactly as a self-serve go-to market. That’s an enterprise product.

Jishnu Battacharjee: Exactly. Not all companies follow that. We invested in Druva in 2011. At that time, Druva was a small company with a few hundred thousand bookings.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture 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 Jishnu Battacharjee was recorded in November 2019.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a fundamentals-focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu takes us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation.