Roundtable Recap: February 27 – Three Reasonable Startups in Validation Mode

During this week’s roundtable, we had three pitches.

Amma’s Kitchen
First up, Kiran Vasudeva from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, pitched Amma’s
Kitchen, a training and subscription service for cooking Indian
vegetarian recipes for people interested in following a plant-based diet.

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470th Roundtable Recording on January 30, 2020: With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

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Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Comparables are Key

As our guest this week, we had Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures. We discussed his firm’s investment hypothesis.

Everydae

As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Christine Outram pitching Everydae, an educational app venture. I suggested to Christine to investigate comparables for her venture. In 2020, with so much innovation already under way, competition and comparables are areas that investors cannot ignore.

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Roundtable Recap: February 13 – You Have 30 Seconds to Capture My Attention

As our guest this week, we had Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. We discussed his fund’s focus and preferences.

PhonePass

As for entrepreneur pitches, first up we had Shantanu Bhattacharya from Canberra, Australia, pitch PhonePass, a two-factor authentication technology.

Liglo

Then we had Nickson Zachary from Nairobi, Kenya, pitch Liglo, a mobile personal finance management app.

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470th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, discusses startups and venture capital in Africa.

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Roundtable Recap: January 30 – Spotlight on Startups in Africa

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, who discussed startups and venture capital in Africa.

Burloe
First up, today, was Parinita Hendre from Mumbai, India, pitching Burloe, an e-commerce company focused on shoes and accessories.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture Partners (Part 4)

Jishnu Battacharjee: There are two core principles for Unacademy. One is that the educator can build the content easily. The second is, the content is bite-sized. The idea was, you can talk about a topic but it cannot be more than five minutes. That whole theme took off.

Fast forward to now, they are serving 10 million people across the country. Suppose I release content and students start using it. Based on the student reception, I get a rating. Unacademy then organizes live classes for the interested students who want to go deeper. Those are paid.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jishnu Battacharjee of Nexus Venture Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is Abhinav the CEO?

Jishnu Battacharjee: That’s correct. He has two other co-founders. In 2017, we started thinking of what we should do regarding monetization. 2018 was our first year of monetization. At this point, it was tripling every year with cash added into the bank.