Sramana Mitra: One of my observations on Now Float is that selling to SMBs in India is hard.
Mohanjit Jolly: That’s right. The dichotomy in India is – Indians love to be pampered as customers.
Sramana Mitra: High-touch, low-value sales.
Mohanjit Jolly: Exactly. They want the high touch but the unit economics don’t work. That was a conundrum. The interesting thing is that we had a strategic term sheet on the table. It was one of the financial institutions in India.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Why did you make the decision of focusing on India-for-the-world?
Mohanjit Jolly: One of the reasons is I’m sitting in Palo Alto. I don’t have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on in India. Having said that, I have colleagues who are in India and the Middle East. They do have their fingers on the pulse. Here are the three reasons why we went down this path for fund two.
>>>Mohanjit Jolly, Partner at Iron Pillar, and a long-time player in the Indian startup ecosystem discusses Exit options for Indian startups and other topics.
Sramana Mitra: I know you’ve been in the industry for a very long time and have been following the evolution of the Indian venture capital ecosystem for a long time. Let’s start diving into a bit of your background. Then let’s introduce Iron Pillar.
>>>Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures, discusses his firm’s successes as well as investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures. Yanev discussed his firm’s successes as well as investment thesis. Vertical Cloud is one of the key ones with an emphasis on Enterprise Data Platforms.
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Dheeraj Pandey, founder of Nutanix and DevRev. The conversation spans a variety of topics and has some brilliant insights on the gaps in the tech industry.
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