Mohit Gulati is the Managing Partner & CIO at The Investment Trust of India (ITI) Growth Opportunities Fund, one of the largest financial services conglomerate offering a range of products and services from Lending, Equities and Derivatives trading, Equity Research, Commodities Trading, Portfolio Management Services, Distribution of Mutual Funds, IPO & Insurance products and Investment Banking Services. Mohit bring over 10 years of experience in the Investment & Fund Management space...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Abhishek Nag is a Partner at Lightspeed India where he primarily focuses on investing in consumer internet companies, media & entertainment, the creator economy, and gaming. He brings extensive experience driving strategic partnerships, business development, and corporate development for internet companies in the domains of growth, content and payments, among other areas. Previously he held operator roles at hyper-growth companies including Meta (Facebook), Hike, Uber, and most recently, Net...
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Rahul Chowdhri is the Managing Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners , an early-stage tech-focused venture capital firm based in Bangalore with investments in companies such as Mamaearth, MFine, Whatfix, Vogo, among many others. Rahul is an industry veteran, having been in Indian venture for over 15 years. He started his investing career at Helion where he was a Partner and led investments in companies such as BigBasket, Simplilearn and Livspace. At Stellaris, he focuses on B2B & B2C Commerc...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr
Chirag Gupta is the Managing Partner at 8X Ventures , a deeptech fund investing in India. Prior to 8X, he has held leadership positions at 500 Global, Careem (MENA's first unicorn acquired by Uber at $3.1bn), McKinsey, PwC/Strategy& and Korn Ferry. During these experiences, he helped 10+ corporations build their unique startup “explore” strategy, helped multiple startups grow to unicorn status, and partnered with governments of 8+ countries to grow their startup ecosystem. Chirag holds an MB...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Gautam Patel is the Founder and Managing Partner of Z3Partners , a growth-stage fund based in Mumbai. Prior to founding Z3Partners, Gautam has been the co-founder of Zodius Technology Fund and Zodius Technology Opportunities Fund, successful early-growth stage Private Equity funds with a track record of investing in industry leaders such as BigBasket, Pepperfry, OfBusiness, Zivame, Medgenome and Antuit. Prior to Zodius, Gautam was the Managing Director and Head of India for Battery Ventures , a ...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Gaurav Hinduja is the Co-founder and Managing Director of axio (previously known as Capital Float) . It brings together pay later, credit and personal finance management under one seamless brand experience. On a mission to make credit worthy for all, axio leverages technology to deliver innovative financial products to millions of individuals across the country, including vast sections of traditionally under-served consumers. axio is the brand name of CapFloat Financial Services Private Limited,...
Oct 24, 2022•53 min
Srikanth Iyer is the Co-founder & CEO of HomeLane , India's largest startup in the home decor space, backed by Sequoia, Accel, Stride Ventures, IIFL Asset Management among others investors. Srikanth is a serial entrepreneur and industry leader, having started his entrepreneurial journey as the co-founder of Edurite Technologies , which eventually was acquired by Pearson India , where he spent the next few years as the CEO and responsible for bringing technology enabled education to millions ...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Chanakya Hridaya is the co-founder of BlackBuck . Founded in 2015, BlackBuck has been a pioneer in bringing the offline operations of trucking online, be it matching a shipper with a trucker or reshaping the infrastructure around trucking to facilitate payments, insurance, and financial services. Today, BlackBuck is India’s largest trucking network, and our robust ‘Freight’ and ‘Fleet Management’ technology platforms deliver reliability, efficiency and seamless experience for shippers and trucke...
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Ketan Patel is the Chief Executive Officer of Mswipe . Founded in 2011, Mswipe has gone on to become the leading digital payments and financial solutions company supporting the growing merchant community across India. Ketan joined Mswipe in 2021 after 18 years at Kotak where he oversaw management, business development, operations and the use of emerging technologies to disrupt the finance industry. During his time at Kotak, he has headed key verticals including Private Banking, Composite Busines...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Mukesh Kalra is the CEO of ET Money , one of India's fastest growing investment and wealth management platform with a total of over $3B worth of investments under management. Mukesh has over 15 years of experience in building businesses and products from scratch in the consumer internet and mobile advertising space. Prior to heading ET Money, he was one of the core members at InMobi and helped build it from concept into the world’s largest independent mobile ad network. He then launched his own ...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Ankit Kedia is the Founding Partner of Capital-A. He is a second generation entrepreneur who has held senior leadership positions at Manjushree Technopack Ltd. (MTL), India's largest rigid plastic packaging company. With a penchant for institutional marketing and a credit of designing the Key Account Management program, Ankit has been instrumental in the 5x growth of revenues and EBIDTA at Manjushree, where he devoted 15 strong years. He was also instrumental in raising private equity capital fr...
Sep 19, 2022•54 min
Manish Taneja is the co-founder and CEO of Purplle , an online beauty and wellness retailer and a recent entrant into the unicorn club . He brings a wealth of experience having spent some of his finest years in venture capital (Avendus Capital), private equity (Fidelity Growth Partners India) and investment banking (Lehman Brothers), before turning a founder. In this episode we will cover: 1. Manish's biggest takeaways from the last two years of building Purplle (4:18) 2. What has Manish discove...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Parag Dhol is the General Partner at Athera Venture Partners . He started his VC career with ICICI Venture, India’s first venture capital company, in 1993. He followed that up with stints at GE and Intel’s corporate venture arms. Parag joined Athera (formerly known as Inventus Capital) in 2008, shortly after the first close of Fund I. Parag is/was a Board Director/Observer at redBus (acquired), FundsIndia, Lemnisk (buy-back), eTechies (buy-back), Power2SME, PolicyBazaar (IPO), Avaz (buy-back), p...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Arun Chulani is an Emerging Markets Analyst at First Water Capital , a fund focused on Indian Equities. First Water’s investment philosophy centers primarily on a long-only strategy, with a value driven and concentrated portfolio approach. Arun is a value investor focusing on hard assets (sectors such as steel, cement, rubber, oil etc.) and cyclicals, taking concentrated bets on preferred plays. Prior to First Water he was with NIG, handling an industrials fund with $400M AUM. Arun is also a Cha...
Sep 03, 2022•54 min
Chaitanya Ramalingegowda is the co-founder of Wakefit, India’s leading direct-to-consumer, mattress and sleep solutions company. He brings over 19 years of experience spanning entrepreneurship, management consulting and marketing across companies such as IBM, Cognizant, Zinnov Consulting, YourStory and LetsVenture. In this episode, we will cover: 1. The Wakefit origin story (3:25) 2. Building the right culture even when the company is failing (7:36) 3. When did the founders feel that were onto s...
Aug 29, 2022•55 min
RK Rangan is the Chairman of BLinC Invest , a v enture capital fund committed to funding EdTech and Fintech startups in India. He is a seasoned business leader with over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry across Investment Banking, Asset Management, Insurance and Consumer Banking. He is a specialist at strategic development and transformation of businesses and has held President/MD and CEO positions with large global corporates. In this episode, we will cover: 1. Current s...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Sandeep Patil is a partner at QED Investors , and heads the fund’s investments in Asia. Founded in 2007, QED Investors has invested in more than 180+ companies, including 27 unicorns, and has more than $5 billion under management. Notable investments include Nubank, SoFi, Credit Karma, Klarna, GreenSky, Avant, Flywire, Remitly, QuintoAndar, Creditas, ClearScore, and Konfio. He has extensive consumer internet experience and is a global banking and financial services industry veteran. Over the cou...
Aug 08, 2022•58 min
Abhishek Goenka is the Head & CIO at RPSG Capital Ventures , a corporate venture fund backed by the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. The fund primarily invests in early-stage consumer brands in India including F&B, CPG, personal care and lifestyle goods. Abhishek brings two decades of experience across investments and M&A having spent time being part of the investments team at True North and JP Morgan. He is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst by qualification. In this epis...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr
Madhu Shalini Iyer is a Partner at Rocketship VC . Previously, she was the Chief Data Officer of Gojek and helped grow the business into a $1 billion unicorn. She was on the board and started the Singapore office. Prior to Gojek, Madhu was an operating partner at a 150M private equity fund building startups across South East Asia. She was part of the founding team of Intuit’s Quickbooks Lending Platform where she helped grow the platform to $300 million and holds 3 patents in the areas of user d...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Viral Jani has been the driving force behind several challenging projects in Consumer Tech, Television Broadcasting, Digital, Social Media and Media Planning. Armed with more than 15 years of experience in media and technology, Viral plays a key role in spearheading Investment Operations at Times Bridge. A post graduate in Communications Management, Media & Brand Management from MICA, in his previous avatar, Viral has led strategy, television and entertainment partnerships for Twitter across...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Mohit Kumar is the Co-founder and CEO of Ultrahuman , a metabolic health tracking platform that provides intelligent nudges based on glucose biomarkers and aims to improve users’ exercise, sleep and nutrition based on deep insights from the platform. Ultrahuman was founded by Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal who were also co-founders at Runnr which later merged with India’s largest food delivery service Zomato . Ultrahuman has raised over $25m to date from Alpha Wave, Steadview Capital, Nexus Vent...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Vinay Singh is a Partner at Fireside Ventures , a fund specializing in early stage and seed investments in the Indian consumer space. With 7+ years at Hindustan Unilever as Marketing Manager for a multi-crore brand, extensive expertise in digital marketing at McKinsey & Co., and Bankbazaar.com, Vinay has a unique perspective on the intersection between consumer brands and technology. He has also been an entrepreneur, as the founder and CEO of Stepni.com, which was acquired by Quikr. In this ...
Jul 07, 2022•56 min
Ankur Bansal is the Co-founder and Executive Director at BlackSoil Capital, a venture debt firm based in India. He leads the execution efforts across our large corporate clients in strategic discussions, idea origination, M&A execution, investment thesis, and negotiations. Ankur is a CFA and a CA with a large network of venture capitalists, private equity investors, institutional investors, and investment bankers and has extensive investment banking experience with major banks such as JP Mor...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Sunil Goyal is the Founder and Managing Director of YourNest , a deep tech and enterprise focused fund in India. Before becoming a full-time, early-stage investor and fund manager, he had gained comprehensive experience of leading complex projects in the areas of M&A, business turnarounds and strategic partnerships. He has spent over two decades working at CXO levels at Bharti group and Dabur. As one of the country’s early angel investors, Sunil has led seed-stage investments and guided comp...
Jun 08, 2022•53 min
Sunit Gajbhiye is the Co-Founder, Business Head at Financepeer . Prior to this he was Product Manager at EdgeVerve, Infosys. Sunit is an IIM and VJTI alumnus with 6+ years of experience in Business Operations and Product Management. Financepeer, a Series B fintech startup backed by Aavishkaar Capital, QED Investors, 9Unicorn and Earlsfield Capital. The startup provides the entire year fee collection upfront to the School at the beginning of the year and collects fees from parents in monthly inst...
Jun 06, 2022•35 min
Swati Khanna is the VP of Human Capital at Sequoia India where she plays a vital role in supporting portfolio startups in attracting and retaining top talent required to build the country’s next big unicorns. Prior to joining Sequoia, Swati founded Meyrahkee, a talent advisory firm focussed on helping companies with talent solutions, and spent four years at Accel as a Talent Partner, helping Accel’s portfolio companies from inception through the growth stage. Swati has a solid reputation for bei...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Varun Alagh is the CEO and co-founder of D2C unicorn, MamaEarth , a personal care brand that specializes in baby and toddler products. Varun is a master marketer having worked for the world’s most valuable brands Coca-Cola as well as its Diets and Lights portfolio for India and South West Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka). Before this role, he worked with Diageo and managed World's No.1 spirits brand Smirnoff for India. Prior to his stint with Unilever he was in sales for 3 years managing a...
May 16, 2022•38 min
Radhesh is amongst the most seasoned B2B investors in India who brings with him rich operational experience in the enterprise technology space. He is Founder and Managing Partner at Suvan Ventures , a B2B focused cross-border fund. Before Suvan Ventures, he was Managing Partner of Arka Venture Labs which was created in 2018 August with the objective of investing and mentoring B2B companies between India and US corridor. The fund has made 27 investments with 4 exits and 9 uprounds (from the likes...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Pranav Marwah is the Director of Investments at the Marwah Family Office , who are investors in a number of funds and startups. He looks after cross-vertical day-to-day operations, group strategy & growth, and group company investment portfolios. Today, the group companies business interests are diversified across real estate, hospitality, sport, and investments across other asset classes. He’s also the CEO of one of India’s leading startup incubators, thinQbate. In this episode we will cove...
Apr 29, 2022•59 min
Ravi Saxena is the Managing Director and CEO of Wonderchef , one of India’s premium brand of healthy and innovative kitchen appliances. Armed with an MBA degree from IIM Ahmedabad, Ravi began his professional career when he joined VIP Luggage as the Brand Manager for soft luggage business. His brand Skybags had been stagnant for the past many years and was a poor cousin to the main business of moulded luggage. Coming with fresh ideas, a research-based approach (branded ‘theoretical’ until proven...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 14 min
