Vanakkam 🙏Hope everything is amazing at your side. For this month's Masterclass on VC 101, we are bringing Adithya Bharadwaj. He is a Vice President at Anicut Capital. Prior to Anicut, he was heading Fund Operations / Fintech Investments at Axilor Ventures and Vice President at Stakeboat Capital.Topics covered :1. What does a VC do? Sneak-peek into the business of investing?2.How does a VC make returns?3. How difficult it is to invest?
In this episode of Founder Talks, Mohan K CEO & Co-Founder of Ippopay would be joining us for a casual conversation on his journey of building a fintech startup from scratch.One of the interesting things to note about Mohan K is that even after winning a grant from Startup TN, he decided to let go of Rs.5,00,000 asking the govt. to utilize the funds for other deserving startups.Ippopay has hit an ARR of $10Million and Gross transaction of over INR 8000Crores in less than 2 years in business.They raised $2 Million from Coinbase Ventures, Better Capital and Blume Ventures.
Vanakkam 🙏Hope everything is amazing at your side. For this month's Masterclass on How to find an Investor, we are bringing Vignesh Ramanujam. He is a founder, investor and currently a partner at Lok Capital.We are covering almost everything that happens before a fundraising process including,1. Bootstrapping vs raising funds.2. Methods to raise funds.3. Methods to approach an investor.4. What investors look for in a startup.5. Investor's metrics for a seed round funding.About the SpeakerAs a solo VC, Vignesh Ramanujam has invested in 35+ startups across India, Singapore and the US ; E-plane company, Codingal, Smiles.ai, Yellow metal to name a few.About his experience as an entrepreneur, in his own words Vignesh shares "I founded my first startup: A location-powered barter marketplace for consumer products, with transactions enabled by its own currency. Raised seed capital, grew to ~50K users & a team of 11 within 6 months of launch — before I shut down in 2016 in light of the prevailing regulatory environment"
In this episode of Founder Talks, Srinath Ramakrushnan, Co-Founder of Zetwerk would be joining us for a casual conversation on his journey from starting his career in ITC as an Operations and Supply Chain Manager to becoming the Co-Founder of OfBusiness, building the startup and leading from Pre Series A to Series B then moved to BlackBuck as the Business Head to Supply and again co-founding Zetwerk. Zetwerk is a Universal Cloud Manufacturing Network that turned into a Unicorn last year.
Vanakkam 🙏For this month's Masterclass on Basics of Valuation & Term-Sheet in Fundraising, we are bringing Mr Abisheik Aravindan, Managing Partner of GRAD & COMPANY.About Mr Abisheik AravindanA Chartered Accountant on a mission to build a startup-focused consulting firm, which currently has its presence in 4 cities across South India.Prior to starting his firm, he was a partner in a two decade old CA firm where he handled Statutory Audits and Business Valuations of various SME's and Startups based out of Coimbatore.He is a certified arbitrator and also holds a certificate in advanced business valuations from NYU Stern Business School, where he was mentored by the "Dean of Valuation" himself Prof Aswath Damodaran.He also co-founded a company which is into skill development training for rural and semi-urban youths by active tie-ups with colleges in the region. Through this venture he trained more than 1500 youths pursuing their college education in Coimbatore.
In this episode of founder talks, Dinesh Arjun, Co-Founder & CEO of Raptee Energy Inc. would be joining us for a casual conversation on how he started his career as a Manufacturing Intern, then worked in Program management at Tesla to starting Raptee Energy. Raptee Energy raised $700Kin an angel round predominantly from HNIs.
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