Founder: ….then we will provide data analytics to the hotel owners providing an overview of what are the common ...
The Masayoshi Son led SoftBank is in a boardroom battle to save its investment in Snapdeal, which is well known to us...
Whosoever dreamed up Ola Select & Ola Play for ANI Technologies (DBA Ola Cabs) should be given a raise & ...
It seems like yesterday when Bhavin Patel entered our office after raising money from VentureCatalysts. ...
A single conversation with Mikhil Innani (of CouponDunia.com and Pharmeasy.in fame) brought about disruption...
Recently, I was on a conference call with experienced investors where our objective was to decide if a startup is f...
Artha Venture Partners recently closed on its 25th investment, Interview Master. We have since then committed to...
Last week Indian startups raised $1.55 billion compared to $433 million in the comparable previous week period.
Last 2 weeks, 73 startups raised $843 million year-to-date, the month of January has seen a steady funding momentum as Indian startups have raised more than $1.50 billion in total capital.
Last week 27 start-ups raised $567 million. Given the record-breaking year of 2021 in terms of fund inflow and the emergence of unicorns for the Indian start-up ecosystem, the early signs of 2022 give hope that this momentum may continue.
Last week 28 startups raised $705 million; the slowdown in China has only increased the confidence in India!
Last two weeks 68 startups raised $2.3 billion; our ecosystem is on a sustained bull run now. Just when it seems like there could be a dip, a slew of startups raise...
Behind every successful fundraise is a strong narrative. That is the honest answer to a question that investors repeatedly ask when they get bewildered by sky-high valuation and moonshot venture ideas.
Last week 28 startups raised $547 million. The ecosystem is flying high now that it set a solid base of 100 deals per month.
Last week 29 startups raised $209 million; the base of 25+ deals a week is firmly set now, and the Zomato & PayTM IPOs led-liquidity...
Last week 27 startups raised $847 million; the impressive number streak continues with 113 startups raising in the previous 28 days!
Last week 36 startups raised $761 million! The number of deals taking place continued climbing, and...
Last week 30 startups raised $293 million; while the total funding amount fell, most heartening is the number of deals...
Prashant graduated from IIT Madras worked with HSBC and Capital One in the United States before coming back to...
Last week 19 startups raised $46 million; the numbers indicate a dip, but it just a temporary lull. This fire burns...
Last week 25 startups raised $638 million; as expected, the number of deals and the amounts raised continue trending...
Last week 16 startups raised $403 million, marking a trend of improving deals and amounts raised. The good news...
Last week 19 startups raising $285 million showed a steady revival in the number of deals closed and the aggregated...
Last week 13 startups raised $9 million, indicating a drop in funding in terms of the total amount raised and the number...
A bug in my blog led to a critical error that stopped me from posting a new blog. Therefore I missed out on sending my...
The surge in COVID19 cases did not dampen the VC ecosystem's investment spirits as 10 startups raised...
Last week, 17 startups raised $157 million, therefore continuing a strong revival in our ecosystem's funding interest.
Last week, 23 startups raised $118 million. The ecosystem is striking back!
Last week, 23 startups raised $501 million. While we are finally back to funding happening more frequently (almost a...
Yesterday, I pitched 3 family offices to invest in our fund. Oddly enough, I got the same question in each of those...
Sanjay shared this article over WhatsApp last night, How venture capitalists are deforming capitalism. I guessed that it...
Zilingo is a technology and commerce platform in the fashion industry. The Singapore headquartered startup was...
Daalchini is an operator of smart vending machines. They provide ready-to-eat food to offices, apartments, and...
Last week, 18 startups raised $225 million. Although we’re bouncing above and below the $100 million mark every ...
Coutloot is a local language social commerce offline to online (O2O) platform which lets anyone sell online across the...
13 early-stage startups raised $20 million last week. Although the numbers are a little lower, the recent surge in IPOs is...
13 early-stage startups raised over $20 million last week, with the overall funding boosting up to $172 million, accordi...
I have (for a very long time) said that angel networks in India are in a deadly spiral. I had not (yet) discovered "why"...
Yesterday, I was on a pitch call with a consumer brand creating a niche in a mass-market commodity with strong...
Two contrasting events took place yesterday. First, as we got to the end of a board meeting, the founders initiated a...
Last week, the ecosystem bounced back with over 3 equity deals/day average, with 19 startups raising $70 million. It i...
Last week, the ecosystem breached the 2 deals/day average yet again with 15 startups raising $168 million. The recen...
In my last blog on gross margins, I had written about the importance of gross profits for a startup to survive in any...
It has been several weeks since our ecosystem breached the 2 deals/day average with 17 startups raising $106 million...
Last week, the ecosystem dropped below the 2 equity deals/day average, with 9 startups raising $12 million. It is the...
Maximojo offers cloud-based tools that provide hotels the means to setup & manage their hotel inventory distribution...
I haven’t blogged consistently as much as I would have liked to in the past few weeks. However, as I started writing the...
For the past several weeks, the ecosystem is plateauing at barely double-digit transactions per week with 10 startups...
BrandIdea is a business intelligence tool for marketing and sales information. They offer a SaaS-based business ...
Squeakee Media Private Limited was a provider of cloud-based ecommerce store builder on a subscription model...
Triggero was an enterprise rewards and recognition services platform. Triggero worked on a SAAS model and was a...
Last week 27 startups raised $847 million; the impressive number streak continues with 113 startups raising in the...
Another week where we maintain the 2 deals a day average with 18 startups raising $31 million. There are green shoo...
BookMyCab is an on-demand taxi service with options to rent metered city taxis as well as from their own fleet of cabs...
While the funds raised by India’s startup ecosystem (barring Jio) fell, it was heartening to note that we continued to...
Fynd is an online retailer of multi-category fashion products. Fynd's product catalog includes apparel, footwear,...
Recently, I was on a weekly update call with one of our food delivery startup founders. They were restarting delivery...
As most of India reopened, so did the funding lords! There was a marked increase in the number of startups that raise...
Rolocule Games is a game development studio creating realistic, casual, and social video games for tablets and...
Every Monday, I sit with my team to review the funding activity of the previous week. Then, I pick out a few companies...
Yesterday was the 60th day since we shut down our office, but it feels much longer. Partly because of the roller coaste...
Two interns finished their learning cycle with Artha this week. One of them wanted to speak to me and get my feedbac...
Exotel is a cloud telephony(IVR, missed call management.)service provider offering various products for a hassle-free ...
6 months ago, I wrote about the real cost of customer acquisition after visiting the offices of a prospective startup that we were evaluating.
In the past several weeks, I have been astonished at the size of seed rounds that founders expect to raise in their first...
Fundraising activity continues to slow down; therefore, my team and I had a tough time shortlisting our favorite picks...
Calling the shutdown caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, an economic crisis is a gross understatement.
United Mobile Apps (UMA) developed and published mobile applications software.
While redoing our website, I accidentally stumbled upon an interesting piece of information.
As I approach my personal goal of personally investing in 100 startups within 10 years...
During my door to door salesman days, I could go through a wall if that meant I would get a referral to a potential sale.
The history of sports and wars is replete with moments of inspiration.
After a lull in funding to gauge the impact of the Covid19 pandemic, the fundraising activity is starting to pick up.
After the turbulence of the last few weeks, I finally carved out the time to share my funding picks of Week...
The aftermath of the pandemic spread of the Covid-19 virus has hit financial markets where it hurts the most – their...
It has been fourteen days since VG Siddhartha took his life.
Siri tells me that it took 1,347 days from my first blog post, Dropping Out Of The Rat Race… to my 100th blog post.
If all things are equal between two candidates that want me to be their mentor, what would be the difference...
I just got back from my trip to Kolkata which was planned in order to introduce the founding team of an upcoming investment to...
When is the right time for an investor to give up working with a venture?
Imagine that you have been invited for a stand-up comedy show of a well-known comic.
One of my favorite entrepreneurial movies is Rocket Singh Salesman of the Year.
At a personally & professionally challenging time in the 2nd quarter of 2016, I went out and stayed at Damodar Farms in Vapi for a short while.
In the past few weeks, I have met several founders whose DCF valuations for their early start-ups were made by...
2018 started off with a bang for Artha India Ventures.
Exactly a year ago, I wrote about a growing malaise in the angel investment ecosystem in the post You are NOT an angel investor.
Over the past 6 months, there are many founders who have received an email telling them that we are passing on the investment opportunity.
This past Saturday, I was at a IIT-Kharagpur as a panelist in their 2018 version of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
There is a lack of reliable sources for procurement of farm fresh produce & it’s impossible to buy directly from farmers without traveling to farms. High consumer demand of farm fresh produce is hugely under-served.
Traditional business models have been upended by the advent of the internet.
During my interview with Sudhir Chowdhary of the Financial Express in August 2017, I emphasized my...
Over the past weekend I was a speaker & judge at the Odisha Startup Summit in Bhubaneshwar.
In the past couple of days I’ve met a number of Venture Capitalists, Limited Partners and He...
Today my online behaviour is tracked constantly to create a virtual persona.
Yesterday, I was on a panel at Startup Jalsa discussing the pro...
“What is your total addressable market?”
There is a growing set of investors who believe that their investment has bought them the right to turn the founder...
Uber & Ola have finally found out that their long-term discounting campaign only helped in distorting the market.
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