About Utsav Somani:

My next guest on The One Percent Project is the young and brilliant head of AngelList India Utsav Somani. Utsav talks about his early career, his mentor and AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, the evolution of the Indian start-up investment space, building AngelList India, and his view on COVID and its impact. 

Thank you to all our listeners for their feedback and questions, especially to Varun, Mahesh, Ashish and Aakriti for questions Utsav has answered in this conversation.

Our Conversation:

• His early career and learnings of India and Start-up Investment Ecosystem.
• Naval Ravikant his mentor and building AngelList India.
• Setting up a Micro fund and learning from investments thus far. 
• Need for EquityList- AngelList’s- Equity Management System for Indian companies.
• His view on COVID and its impact.
• How to grow and add value in a market with similar investment eco-systems.
• The growth potential of Indian Cryptocurrency start-ups?