The Startup Operator

Ravi is a co-founder and CEO of Qapita, a digital equity management platform. Ravi is an angel investor in several startups. He has previously worked in investment banking and corporate development in Asia Pacific region for nearly 2 decades and has expertise in capital raising, corporate finance advisory, mergers & acquisitions, principal investments and the like. In this interview Ravi and Roshan spoke about managing captables and various stakeholders and more!

Founding story of Qapita

Common misconceptions about Termsheets

Key operational constraints and challenges in fundraising 

Managing various stakeholders on your captable

Best practices to issue ESOPs

Prioritising Finance as a function in Startups

How should founders view valuation?

Connect with Ravi:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raviravulaparthi/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ravi_Qapita

Connect with us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   

👉🏽 Rapido's fundraise 

👉🏽 Wayne Burgess joins Ola electric  

👉🏽 DRDO & 5C networks' X-Ray Algorithm and more  

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   

👉🏽 Rapido's fundraise 

👉🏽 Wayne Burgess joins Ola electric  

👉🏽 DRDO & 5C networks' X-Ray Algorithm and more  

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Shruti is an engineer and a data and ML enthusiast and is currently a general partner at Array VC. Previously she was an early stage venture capital investor at True Ventures, Samsung Electronics, Lightbank, HighBAR Partners, and the i2A Fund. While at IBM she worked on self learning algorithms that detected user location based on IP addresses, which she later incorporated into the Lotus Sametime product. Later, her company Penseev helped users make better connections with their friends based on social data. Shruti also has an MBA from the University of Chicago, where she polished her finance skills before making the switch from engineer/founder to investor.

Shruti and Roshan spoke about investing in enterprise SaaS and the challenges in the space and more; Key highlights below: 

Advantages of being a techie in a world of venture capital 

Investing in the enterprise  

Challenges in enterprise SaaS space 

Balancing Build before market vs build with market 

How founders can Iterate to find Product Market Fit

Navigating through changes in enterprise tech deployment 1

What makes great founders great? 

Connect with Shruti: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutigandhi/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/atShruti

Connect with us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​

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Shruti is an engineer and a data and ML enthusiast and is currently a general partner at Array VC. Previously she was an early stage venture capital investor at True Ventures, Samsung Electronics, Lightbank, HighBAR Partners, and the i2A Fund. While at IBM she worked on self learning algorithms that detected user location based on IP addresses, which she later incorporated into the Lotus Sametime product. Later, her company Penseev helped users make better connections with their friends based on social data. Shruti also has an MBA from the University of Chicago, where she polished her finance skills before making the switch from engineer/founder to investor.

Shruti and Roshan spoke about investing in enterprise SaaS and the challenges in the space and more; Key highlights below: 

Advantages of being a techie in a world of venture capital 

Investing in the enterprise  

Challenges in enterprise SaaS space 

Balancing Build before market vs build with market 

How founders can Iterate to find Product Market Fit

Navigating through changes in enterprise tech deployment 1

What makes great founders great? 

Connect with Shruti: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutigandhi/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/atShruti

Connect with us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​

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Eshwar is the co-founder and the CEO of Mukunda foods, a cutting edge food tech company with inhouse R&D, that automates kitchens and is used in several cloud kitchens across the country. Eshwar spoke about the nuances of building a food tech company and more in this interview.

Highlights:

- Pivoting from a Quick Serve Restaurant to Kitchen Automation

- Achieving product market fit in Automation

- Nuances of Iterating in food tech

- Calculating ROI and justifying value to customers

- Nuances of Building a food business

- Operating a food business through the pandemic

Connect with Eshwar:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshwarvikas/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eshwar_mf

Connect with us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup

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Eshwar is the co-founder and the CEO of Mukunda foods, a cutting edge food tech company with inhouse R&D, that automates kitchens and is used in several cloud kitchens across the country. Eshwar spoke about the nuances of building a food tech company and more in this interview.

Highlights:

- Pivoting from a Quick Serve Restaurant to Kitchen Automation

- Achieving product market fit in Automation

- Nuances of Iterating in food tech

- Calculating ROI and justifying value to customers

- Nuances of Building a food business

- Operating a food business through the pandemic

Connect with Eshwar:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshwarvikas/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eshwar_mf

Connect with us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   

👉🏽 Urban Company's fundraise 

👉🏽 Zomato's IPO filing  

👉🏽 Elasticrun's fundraise and more. 

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   

👉🏽 Urban Company's fundraise 

👉🏽 Zomato's IPO filing  

👉🏽 Elasticrun's fundraise and more. 

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Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on your favourite podcast platforms.  

#startups​ #unicorns​ #technology​ #roundup​ #podcast​ #news

Ritu is one of the co-founders at Ankur. She worked on bringing innovation from lab to the market for a decade in Unilever and Philips. She has also worked globally investing in IP led renewable technologies. She has a PhD in physics from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from INSEAD. In this interview with Roshan Cariappa she spoke about Investing in businesses that focus on the next billion internet users and more!

Some key Highlights:

Story behind Ankur Capital 

Taking innovations from labs to market 

Seeking out innovation in the market 

26:31 Current Trends in Evolution of Healthcare and Agritech Sectors 

Building for Bharat 

Evolution of the startup ecosystem

Connect with Ritu 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritu-verma 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rituverma01

Connect with us: 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator ​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup

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