Roundtable Recap: November 19 – Seed Funding for B-to-C Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner, Speciale Invest, who discussed his fund’s investment thesis.

AYA AsYouAre

As for entrepreneur pitches, we had Sunali Aggarwal from Chandigarh, India, pitch AYA AsYouAre, a matchmaking site for LGBT in India. This discussion would be useful for any entrepreneur considering funding for a B-to-C startup.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You want to give another example?

Shripriya Mahesh: Sure. Another example is a company called Core, which is a meditation company. We invested in Core at their seed round. They hadn’t launched as well, so it was based on a pre-product market fit.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some of the companies that you have invested in. In particular, as you describe their stories, talk about when they came to you or when you found them, what was it about them that convinced you to write these checks?

Shripriya Mahesh: Venture, as you know, is about exceptions. I’m going to talk about mission-driven companies as well as companies that have fallen outside of those bounds. I’ll start with Skillshare. At the time when we met them four years ago, they raised what would now be called a series

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures (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 Shripriya Mahesh was recorded in August 2020.

Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner at Spero Ventures, talks about mission-driven investing.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us a little about your background as well as Spero Ventures. 

509th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording on November 12, 2020: With Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital

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509th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital

Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital, is the founder of a small venture firm that we have a great deal of respect for, and a personal friend. This is a wonderful conversation.

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Roundtable Recap: November 12 – Great Discussion on How to Build Platform Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. Ashmeet is the founder of a small venture firm that we have a great deal of respect for, and a personal friend. It’s a wonderful conversation.

DeepBrainz AI

As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Arunkumar Venkataramanan from Bangalore, India, pitch DeepBrainz AI, an enterprise AI platform idea. The discussion offers valuable insights for those entrepreneurs trying to build platform companies.

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508th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Keith Bank, KB Partners

Keith Bank is Founder CEO at KB Partners, a venture firm focused on sports technology.

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