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AngelList India Radio
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Conversations for founders and investors by the AngelList India team. These interviews are designed to help future and current founders get answers and for angel investors to improve their investing careers. You can find out more about AngelList India on www.angellistindia.com or get in touch with us on Twitter @AngelListIndia.
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#63 Udayan Walvekar (GrowthX)
Mar 14, 202300:24:30Tap to summarizeGrowthX is a learning community for the top 1% growth leaders. The GrowthX membership gives three key things. One, Ability to grow any internet product through learning frameworks taught by top growth leaders. Two, The revered GrowthX community, a safe space to soundboard about anything that’s stressing you. Three, Real outcomes for founders and leaders- they are able to upskill, hire & scale their revenue growth team. Prior to GrowthX, Udayan was the first growth hire at Razorpay where he built the product growth team that drove growth across all verticals of Razorpay. He's also worked across multiple startups in India and San Francisco.
Transcribe →#62 Sanil Sachar (Huddle)
Sep 15, 202200:23:33Tap to summarizeSanil Sachar is the co-founder and partner of Huddle, an entrepreneur, active angel investor, national best-selling author, and columnist based in New Delhi, India. As part of their accelerator, Huddle, Sanil works with the portfolio, to attain the short and long-term keenly focusing on the revenue strategy and growth. He is also one of the co-owners of the global sports apparel brand Tru, and looks in the global strategy and the multi-sports growth of Trusox in India. Sanil focusses his efforts to enable startups on their go-to-market strategies and revenue models as a base for their growth.
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#61 Rishabh Karwa (GoMechanic)
Apr 29, 202200:24:36Tap to summarizeRishabh Karwa is the co-founder of GoMechanic. GoMechanic is disrupting India’s auto aftermarket with their services, spares, accessories & tech ecosystem. With over 1200+ workshops across 60+ cities, GoMechanic offers 300+ car services, warranties, spares e-commerce & has built a unique supply chain with garages & retailers. Started by 4 friends - Rishabh, Kushal, Amit & Nitin in 2016, GoMechanic aims to solve auto aftermarket problems at first principles & aim for global markets replicating their model. With 1000+ employees, 4000+ mechanics & 250+ retailers - GoMechanic aims to add value in the entire ecosystem.
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#60 Ragini Das (leap.club)
Mar 21, 202200:26:04Tap to summarizeRagini Das (co-founder, leap.club) is a woman on a mission - more women in leadership roles. With the aim to bridge the long seen disparity between men and women in the workspace, her remarkable skills in building and expanding brands has been key in seamlessly accelerating leap.club towards this mission. During her tenure at Zomato, Ragini had been a huge part of the building blocks of the brand and has garnered experience across various growth roles in a span of six years. Previously, as the head of International expansion for Zomato Gold, her expertise resulted in driving impeccable growth of the now leading delivery company. Her purposeful approach to go the extra mile is what makes her an extraordinary leader. Through this conversation, we dive deeper into her journey of starting up leap.club, building engaged scalable communities and understand more about their latest initiative "the table", launched to bridge the gap in early stage VC funding for female founders.
Transcribe →#59 Ravi Iyer (Flipkart Leap)
Feb 14, 202200:16:18Tap to summarizeRavi Iyer is a Senior Vice President & Head of Corporate Development, Partnerships, Corporate Finance at Flipkart. He is a veteran of Flipkart, having worked there over the last 8 years in multiple roles. Prior to that, he spent 12 years plus in the FMCG space at ITC. He has led multiple key initiatives at Flipkart over the years, most recently the acquisition of companies like Yaantra, Cleartrip and strategic partnership with companies like Moj and Adani. He has led multiple key initiatives at Flipkart over the years spoke to us about their accelerator program.
Transcribe →#58 Anand Chandrasekaran (Kwaish)
Jan 10, 202200:35:03Tap to summarizeAnand has built five products globally with 10M+ users (one with 1 billion+ users) and co-founded Aeroprise Inc. (acq by BMC Software). Most recently, he was EVP, Product at Five9 (Nasdaq: FIVN). Five9 has added $10B in value since 2019. He is also seed investor/advisor in 80+ startups across US/India, 35 of which have grown to $250M+ and eight > $1B in valuation. Breakout investments include Dealshare (1.7B valuation), NoBroker (1B valuation), Rupeek (600M valuation) Khatabook (600M valuation), OneCard (750M valuation) , etc. Prior to this, Anand was Director of Messenger Platform at Facebook. He was previously CPO @ Snapdeal, one of India’s e-commerce leaders. Previously, he was CPO at Bharti Airtel, a global mobile operator with 300M subscribers. Earlier, Anand was with Yahoo! as Sr. Director for Search and Mobile. He is on the board of directors at publicly listed Future Enterprises Ltd (NSE: FEL).
Transcribe →#57 Arjun Vaidya (Verlinvest)
Dec 3, 202100:18:01Tap to summarizeArjun Vaidya was the CEO at Dr. Vaidya's: New Age Ayurveda (until Jan 2021). Prior to his entrepreneurial stint, Arjun graduated from Brown University, USA with a BA with honors in International Relations and Economics. He then worked in private equity at a consumer sector focused fund, L Capital Asia (the private equity arm of the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group) where he focused specifically on consumer brands and consumer tech. In October 2016, Arjun quit his job to take on his 150-year-old family legacy of Ayurvedic formulations that his grandfather left behind. Dr. Vaidya’s repackaged the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda and emerged as India’s largest Ayurveda brand online. The brand has successfully reached 1m+ consumers across 500+ cities and 16,500+ pin codes in India. Arjun was the first Ayurvedic Entrepreneur to be featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List for and Business World 40 Under 40 List! Dr. Vaidya’s also won Youth SMB of the Year from Amazon and the Retail Startup Award from the Retailers Association of India. In June 2019, Dr. Vaidya’s partnered with the USD 4b RP Sanjiv Goenka Group and has now been acquired by the group – making it one of India’s first successful D2C exits. Currently, Arjun leads venture investing for Verlinvest in India (one of the world’s largest consumer brand focused funds). He is also an active angel investor mentor to brands in India’s D2C and ecommerce ecosystem.
Transcribe →#56 Vishnu Acharya & Dinesh Pai (Razorpay & Rainmatter)
Oct 15, 202100:26:14Tap to summarizeVishnu leads Corp Dev/Investments at Razorpay - with a focus on supporting innovation and creating value for the payments and banking fintech ecosystem in India. Razorpay is one of India's largest NeoBanking & payments player. Vishnu also manages investments at MarsShot Ventures (an angel fund for early stage entrepreneurs). Dinesh Pai leads initiatives for Rainmatter, which is a Fintech focused fund by Zerodha. Rainmatter believes in helping people do better with their money and deepen capital market participation in India.
Transcribe →#55 Shashwata Narain (Veera Health)
Sep 6, 202100:19:15Tap to summarizeShashwata Narain is the co-founder and CEO of Veera Health. Veera Health is on a mission to help women lead healthier lives. Veera’s first offering is a digital therapeutics platform that helps women identify and navigate Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), with a comprehensive offering of therapy, coaching and specialist support. Veera Health was founded in Mumbai by Shobhita and Shashwata Narain in August 2020. The sisters gained firsthand insight into the problem after Shobhita was diagnosed with PCOS a number of years ago. Shashwata has an MBA from Wharton and worked with consumer health companies at McKinsey.
Transcribe →#54 Rohit M A (Cloudnine)
Sep 3, 202100:23:52Tap to summarizeRohit is the Co-founder, Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, India's premier mother and child healthcare specialists. Rohit is amongst those limited few set of entrepreneurs who have built organisations from scratch and scaled over the years to now at the cusp of a public listing milestone. An avid startup evangelist, Rohit started investing through his fund Capier Investments over the last 5 years and has been able to use his entrepreneurial experience and skills to help invest in founders and their vision. Cloudnine aside, Rohit has built a tremendous portfolio which includes investments into marquee funds operating in the country to give him a ring side view of the best action.
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