The VCpreneur: Startups | Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Fundraising
By Digjay Patel
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The VCpreneur podcast provides a unique perspective of the startup world, through the lens of Venture Capitalists (VCs) and Entrepreneurs.
The podcast features successful VCs and Entrepreneurs discussing the art & science of building products, scaling startups, fundraising and investing in a venture. Listen in to learn from individuals who have been there, done that and made a dent in the venture universe.
You can visit thevcpreneur.com and follow us on Twitter @thevcpreneur_ & Instagram @thevcpreneur for more episodes and interesting insights on the startup ecosystem.
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EP#69 Arpit Maheshwari – Investment philosophy at Stellaris, balancing mindshare when investing in different sectors and managing relationships with startups that are unable to achieve venture scale
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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EP#68 Vishesh Khurana – Building Shiprocket to enable e-commerce in India, the scale up journey and approach to inorganic growth
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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EP#67 Anjali Bansal – Investing in climate and sustainability, the importance of having a strong board and building longevity as an investor
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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EP#66 Vishesh Rajaram – Opportunities & challenges in climate-tech and unpacking the iterative process to master deep-tech investing
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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EP#65 Aditya Kulkarni – Building Stoa: India’s alternative to a traditional MBA, leveraging early-stage investors and scaling a profitable edtech business
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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EP#64 Somesh Dash – Growth investing at IVP, earning the trust of marquee founders and the value of mentorship in venture
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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EP#63 Mark Kahn – Investing in startups building for the rural economy, identifying founders that scale and staying relevant as a venture investor
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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EP#62 Pearl Agarwal – Building Eximius Ventures, the Web3 opportunity & parallels between a founder and a first time fund manager
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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EP#61 Pankaj Makkar – The bull case for India, mental models to identify stellar startups and Bertelsmann’s India investment playbook
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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EP#60 Madhu Shalini Iyer – Leveraging data science to invest in startups and the global investment perspective at Rocketship VC
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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EP#59 Jatin Desai – Backing outlier founders and investing in deep-tech/IP creating startups
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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EP#58 Smita Deorah – Democratizing quality education in India, the growth playbook at LEAD & selecting the right investors for your startup
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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EP#57 Ben Mathias – Investing in growth stage startups, value add beyond Series A and why founders should focus on building capital efficient businesses
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May 29, 2022 |
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EP#56 Mayank Banerjee – Building Even Healthcare, choosing the right co-founders and understanding the investor perspective when fundraising as a founder
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May 08, 2022 |
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EP#55 Sanjay Nath – The journey from a fund manager to a firm manager, the platform approach of supporting founders and building an enduring VC brand
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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EP#54 Mihir Gupta – Building Teachmint, leveraging inorganic growth to scale up and lessons from fundraising
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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EP#53 Shiv Sharma – Building Stocktwits in India, pioneering social finance & cracking a new market with an established product
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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EP#52 Jyotsna Krishnan – Building conviction as a ‘founding investor’, Elevar’s unique investing DNA and backing entrepreneurs that build for the underserved markets
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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EP#51 Rohan Verma – Building Breathe Well-Being, re-inventing chronic care with a community-first approach and nailing the timing of your fundraise
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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EP#50 Amit Gupta – Playing the long game and building category creating startups like InMobi & Yulu
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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EP#49 Rajan Bajaj – Building Slice, re-inventing payments & the pursuit of building a quality consumer product for India
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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EP#48 Ritu Verma – Seeding startups that are building for the next billion, challenges faced as a GP and the importance of collaboration in venture capital
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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EP#47 Arjun Vaidya – Building Dr. Vaidya’s, overcoming self-doubt as a founder and his approach to fundraising & exits
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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EP#46 Ashish Dave – Evaluating seed vs growth stage startups, the learning-unlearning cycle in VC and balancing between due diligence & speed of decision making
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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EP#45 Aprameya Radhakrishna – Building the vernacular ecosystem for Bharat, lessons on fundraising & identifying the right sounding board as a founder
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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EP#44 Anurag Ramdasan – The venture capital learning curve, supporting founders in their follow-on fundraise and establishing a strong VC brand
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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EP#43 Shruti Gandhi – Investing in enterprise tech startups, the operator VC perspective & differentiating oneself as an emerging VC
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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EP#42 Anubhav Jain – Building Rupifi, learnings from Seed to Series A and why speed matters at early stage startups
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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EP#41 Sushma Kaushik – Investing in the Bharat opportunity, DNA of impact entrepreneurs & the evolving exit landscape for impact funds
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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EP#40 Pankaj Mitra – Decoding corporate VC, Cisco’s symbiotic relationship with portfolio startups & collaborating with traditional VC funds
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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EP#39 Manish Singhal – Evaluating & backing disruptive ideas, challenges of raising a VC fund and the bull case for deeptech in India
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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EP#38 Shruti Kapoor – Building Wingman, unpacking B2B sales and scaling up as an entrepreneur
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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EP#37 Abhishek Goyal – The VC to founder journey, entrepreneurship lessons from the VC experience & investing in Flipkart
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May 16, 2021 |
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EP#36 Anshuman Bapna – The massive cleantech opportunity, building a strong culture at a remote-first startup and managing pivots & exits as a founder
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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EP#35 Sanjay Swamy – Identifying category creating startups, adding value as an operator VC & finding investor-founder fit
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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EP#34 Rahul Mathur – The ‘build in public’ approach for startups, challenges faced by a first time founder and the Insurtech landscape in India
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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EP#33 Anirudh Damani – The micro-VC investment model, cap table discipline by founders & learnings from investing in 85+ startups
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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EP#32 Vindhya C – Unpacking product management, building ‘customer-centric’ products & founder-product manager dynamics
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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EP#31 Dhimant Parekh – Building The Better India, the shift from content to commerce & the role of community in establishing a strong brand
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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EP#30 Prasanna K – Understanding SaaS fundamentals, building Upekkha & accelerating growth for SaaS startups
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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EP#29 Rajiv Srivatsa – Co-building startups at Antler India, the Urban Ladder experience & unpacking the fundraising lifecycle of a startup
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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EP#28 Raja Ganapathy – The ‘skin-in-the-game’ marketing model, partnering with founder-led companies & building a strong VC brand
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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EP#27 Vaibhav Domkundwar – Building leverage as a founder, simplifying decision making for investors & bootstrapping vs fundraising
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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EP#26 Vinay Bansal – Democratizing angel investing & growing with startups
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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EP#25 Karthik Venkateswaran – Building Jumbotail, scaling a marketplace model & hiring for values
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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EP#24 Sasha Mirchandani – Angel investing to venture capital, learnings from missed investment opportunities & building a legacy VC fund
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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EP#23 Vishesh Rajaram – Backing mission-oriented founders & investing in disruptive tech startups
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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EP#22 Priya Mohan – Lessons from an entrepreneur turned VC, key considerations when evaluating an exit and importance of maintaining mental wellbeing for VCs & founders
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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EP#21 Bhaskar Majumdar – The value of GPs with complementary skill sets, learnings from investing in startups from different geographies & the art of identifying exit opportunities
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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EP#20 Utsav Somani – The AngelList India journey, advantage of having good angel investors on your cap table & starting a micro fund to bridge the gap between India & the Silicon Valley
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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EP#19 Mikhil Innani – Making a career in startups, leading and measuring growth at scale ups & building the AWS of lending
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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EP#18 Rajul Garg – Building a personal brand in venture capital, collaboration & competition among VCs & why fundraising is an important skillset for a founder
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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EP#17 Ishpreet Gandhi – Decoding venture debt, key use cases & benefits to founders and the outlook for venture debt in India
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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EP#16 Anirudh Pandita – Adopting a beginner’s mindset to build disruptive products, the data driven approach to distribution & key tenets to cultivate a strong team culture
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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EP#15 Smita Aggarwal – The incentive to build for the underserved markets & investing in impact creating fintechs
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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EP#14 Brij Bhasin – How Limited Partners can add value to startups & the importance of raising ‘smart’ capital at initial rounds of funding
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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EP#13 Ray Newal – Identifying signals that matter to investors & how accelerators add value to the startup ecosystem
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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EP#12 Jitendra Gupta – Building a strong foundation for your startup, the importance of sharing equity upside with your employees and the pursuit of transforming the banking experience in India
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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EP#11 Nitin Sharma – The first principles approach to venture investing & the deep tech opportunity for startups and investors
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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EP#10 Dr. Anand Anandkumar – The pursuit of solving problems at scale & the fundraising playbook for deep science startups
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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EP#9 Melissa Frakman – The Indian fintech opportunity, tapping global markets & adopting a collaborative approach to scale your startup
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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EP#8 Vinay Singh – The business of building brands and investing in new-age consumer companies
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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EP#7 Dhruvil Sanghvi – The art of scaling up, benefits of an accelerator and partnering with the right investors for your startup
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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EP#6 Adith Podhar – The micro-VC perspective, investor biases and decoding the art & science of venture investing
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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EP#5 Sumukh Sridhara – Equity management for startups, the culture & founder mindset at AngelList, and the ‘startup OS’ approach to building products
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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EP#4 Maximilian Rofagha – Why startups are in the business of making bets and the quest to build the world’s largest finance community
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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EP#3 Anup Jain – Taking risks, backing misfits & the fundamentals of building a direct-to-consumer brand
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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EP#2 Sid Talwar – Learnings as a first time entrepreneur, founder personalities and why Lightbox prefers maintaining a lean portfolio of startups
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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EP#1 Pranav Pai – Founding & Managing a VC fund, measuring key fund metrics and preparing your portfolio companies for a crisis
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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The VCpreneur - Trailer Episode
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Jul 11, 2020 |