The Desi VC with Akash Bhat

E134: Edul Patel (Co-founder & CEO, Mudrex)

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Edul Patel is the Co-founder & CEO of Mudrex, a crypto exchange platform on a mission to democratize investing, with its primary goal being to make crypto investing easy and accessible to all. The company has raised over $22M from Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, Tribe Captial, QED Investors and Arkam Ventures.

Edul brings with him over 10 years of experience deep-rooted in finance, entrepreneurship, and building tech-driven applications. Previously Co-Founded Niffler, which was acquired by Tapzo where he led the product team to build the core infrastructure and the app.

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Episode Notes:

  1. Intro (1:50)
  2. How Edul got into entrepreneurship (2:45)
  3. Why so many IITians become founders (6:45)
  4. Overcoming insecurities as a founder (13:13)
  5. Learnings as a second-time entrepreneur (17:40)
  6. The origin of Mudrex (22:02)
  7. How Indian VCs viewed crypto in 2017 (29:36)
  8. The crypto and web3 movement: why community matters (35:15)
  9. Building investor confidence in crypto after recent events (42:17)
  10. What Edul has learned about himself as an operator (45:45)

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