Founders Unfiltered

By A Junior VCBusiness Entrepreneurship

Founders Unfiltered episodes

March 27, 2021 Ep27: Know your customers ft. Rupeek’s Sumit Maniyar
Sumit grew up in a town full of small business owners. His family’s nudge towards STEM education was considered the unconventional path. While working as an equity analyst, Sumit discovered a unique problem in the fintech space - Indians have very high physical asset ownership, yet asset-backed lending makes only a minority of total borrowing.
In 2015, he started Rupeek to fulfill this unprecedented demand. He believes Understanding customers is an ongoing process and one should keep running experiments to learn. Today, Rupeek serves over 1 lakh happy users across 25+ cities. Join us to learn how Sumit got to know his customers and built Rupeek.
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36 min
March 21, 2021 AJVC Unfiltered 21: Can India’s Fastest Unicorn Win the Infra.Market?
Episode on youtube: https://youtu.be/aWkBTwiLQWc
Last month, Infra.Market raised $100M to gain unicorn status, only 20 months after getting its first-ever institutional round. Become one of the fastest Indian unicorns. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can India’s Fastest Unicorn Win the Infra.Market?
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16 min
March 13, 2021 Ep26: Fintech Payments ft. CashFree’s Reeju Datta
Growing up, Reeju had never thought of starting his own venture. It was after receiving an admit from ISB when he started thinking about what he really wants to do in life. Considering the huge expense of Bschool, in addition to the opportunity cost at hand. He made the decision of not doing an MBA and starting up instead. He met his co-founder Akash through a mutual friend. The two often used to bounce around business ideas with each other. Before starting up, they evaluated many different ideas and narrowed down on the problem they both had faced personally, Cash on delivery payments for online businesses. Today, Cashfree is used by over 50000 businesses with transactions worth $12 billion processed annually.

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29 min
March 07, 2021 AJVC Unfiltered 20: Will BharatPe Become Bharat’s Lending Tap?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss BharatPe and how they raised $100M to reach within a touching distance of becoming a unicorn, within an incredible 3 years of founding. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Will BharatPe Become Bharat’s Lending Tap?
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12 min
February 27, 2021 Ep25: Building Communities ft. 91Springboard’s Pranay Gupta
Pranay studied at IIT Delhi where he got to be a part of a true community in the form of his hostel. Post his MBA from IIMA, he got a job as a Stock Broker. As work used to get over by 4, he started helping his college startup accelerator after his working hours. This continued for a year after which he came full time as the CEO. After working at the accelerator for 4 years he met his co-founder Varun and decided to start 91 Springboard, a small fund to help startups. To make the fund economics work, they realized the need for a local community of startups.

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35 min
February 21, 2021 AJVC Unfiltered 19: Is Mobile Premier League the Real Deal?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss Mobile Premier League(MPL) and it's rise to rocketship growth in the fantasy gaming segment. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Is Mobile Premier League the Real Deal?
15 min
February 13, 2021 Ep24: Impact Entrepreneurship ft. The Better India’s Dhimant Parekh
After graduation, Dhimant worked for a large tech company as a software engineer for 5 years. Intrigued by the business aspects of a company he decided to join a B-School. At ISB he met folks with diverse backgrounds including entrepreneurs that transformed his initial perspective of getting a high-paying job at a corporate. Dhimant highlights the importance of intertwining Business with Impact so both continue to grow simultaneously. Today Better India has a reach of over 90 million people in a month. Join us to learn how Dhimant built and grew Better India to empower citizens and catalyse change.
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30 min
February 07, 2021 AJVC Unfiltered 18: Is India SaaS Ready to Soar?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss the evolution of SaaS in India - how we get here and where we are going. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Is India SaaS Ready to Soar?
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22 min
January 30, 2021 Ep23: Understanding the Market ft. POSist’s Ashish Tulsian
Ashish built his first website and was competing with tech giants in his 10th grade! In college he kept toying with ideas and code which led to his first startup, providing telecom based value-added services that he exited in 2011. He started a Restaurant with a friend and realizing how painful it is to manage a restaurant, led them to create POSist, a cloud-based platform for restaurants. Today they serve 8000+ clients spread across 22 countries.
Join us as we talk to Asish about how POSist evolved overtime to find their business model and customer segment.
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38 min
January 24, 2021 AJVC Unfiltered 17: Can Zetwerk be the Unicorn Helping Manufacturers Get Work?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss Zetwerk and their incredible journey taking India's manufacturers global. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can Zetwerk be the Unicorn Helping Manufacturers Get Work?
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14 min