1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani of Kae Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I think there are some question marks that are coming up now that there has been some runway that the venture capital industry in India has had to play in the market. The other question out of that is the length of time it takes to grow a company in India.

The traditional venture model that has succeeded in the west is of a very fast growth – zero to $100 million in five to six years. That is not happening in India. Both the Indian consumption, as you said, and even the global consumption market have not produced that level of growth pace. How do you analyze that? If it takes much longer to build a company, then that starts to be a problem for the venture capital timeline. >>>

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

Sramana Mitra: Same thing about MVPs. Are you looking for early customers that are international customers that they have built an MVP around?

Sandeep Singhal: Yes. There are two ways to do this. You can work with the Indian arms of global customers. You can work with them in the Indian market but have a clear understanding of how Indian operations are aligned with global operations. The Indian operations are very India-centric. It’s hard to take what you’ve built for the Indian client to the global market.

If you are looking to go down the path of working with an Indian multinational with the idea of using them as a stepping stone to >>>

212th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Christina Brodbeck, Rivet Ventures

Christina Brodbeck, Founding Partner at Rivet Ventures, talks about the firm’s investment thesis of funding companies that target the female demographic in its purchase decision cycle. Very interesting and under-served market.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nathan Lustig of Magma 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 Nathan Lustig was recorded in October 2017. 

Nathan Lustig, Managing Partner of Magma Partners, a Latin-America-focused fund. He talks about their strategy, as well as the dynamics of the LatAm market.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Magma Partners. What is the focus of the firm? How big is the fund? What size investment do you make?

Nathan Lustig: We’re a US-Latin American venture capital fund. We got started in 2014. In our first fund, we had $2 million of >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sandeep Singhal 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 Sandeep Singhal was recorded in July 2016. 

Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners, is a key player in the India-US startup corridor. The discussion spans trends in SaaS, Open Source, and the Indian venture capital market in general. If you are working in the technology startup sector with an interest in India, this is a worthwhile discussion.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some kind of basic level setting. The Indian SaaS startup scene has gone 

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sasha Mirchandani of Kae Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You mentioned the unicorn valuations of these e-commerce companies in India. The valuations are quite outrageous. How do you analyze what’s going on?

Sasha Mirchandani: There’s somebody paying for those companies that have taken them to big valuations. 2016 will be a very interesting year. It will be a year of reckoning. It will be a separation of the men from the boys. The jury is out on what will happen by the end of this year.

With capital now becoming far more difficult to source, I think there’s going to be more consolidation. It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens regarding the company that I just mentioned with Amazon also breathing down their necks. All >>>

389th Roundtable Recording On March 8, 2018: With Rob Schultz, Serra Ventures

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Padmaja Ruparel of Indian Angel Network (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the size of the fund?

Padmaja Ruparel: $70 million. The IAN platform represents a way of raising money from $30,000 to almost $7 million. All they need to do is to keep performing and growing the company and money will be available. I think that this is the new gap that we have identified. This is the new gap where we have positioned the fund. The second that we have done is 60% of the fund is raised.

We started operations and investments in six companies all in a period of a quarter. Interestingly, the entire 60% has been raised in India. This is domestic money. It’s hard to raise money in India and therefore, they raise a lot of money overseas. We have >>>