The Series A VC Reshaping Indian Startup Funding | Rajeev Kalambi @ Cactus Partners
Most founders chase the billion-customer dream and the unicorn lottery at the same time. This India VC funding strategy conversation dismant...
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Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully
Most founders pitch VCs without understanding the math that decides their fate, and Amrit Chandan learned this the hard way after raising $1...
India's Non-Invasive Answer to Elon Musk's Neuralink | Siddharth Panwar @ NeuroDx
Most Indian AI startups are racing to build chatbots for Indic languages. Dr. Siddharth Panwar took a different bet, building India's first...
What VCs Miss When Evaluating Lending Startups: Alok Mittal
Six months before India's first real credit cycle hit, one MSME digital lending founder quietly stopped approving 30% of his eligible borrow...
How to Build a Profitable B2B Marketplace in India: FarMart
Alekh Sanghera spent his early career as a digital payments consultant at MicroSave, working on Bill Gates Foundation and World Bank rural f...
First Indian on NASDAQ: Kanwal Rekhi
When every networking engineer in Silicon Valley said TCP/IP was wrong for Ethernet, one IIT graduate from India ignored the consensus, buil...
How to Raise VC Funding in India: Lessons from Stellaris
Alok Goyal of Stellaris Venture Partners, the $600M fund behind Mamaearth, Whatfix, and Axtria, breaks down 13 years of lessons that every f...
From Zero Funding to India's Only Listed Cybersecurity Firm: Quick Heal
In this conversation, Sanjay Katkar, Founder, Quick Heal Technologies, India's only listed cybersecurity firm, breaks down 30 years of fight...
Siddhant Jatia on Pickleball's Rise in India
Picklebay Founder Siddhant Jatia walks Founder Thesis host Akshay Datt through the full pickleball business in India model - from rooftop co...
The Uncomfortable Truth about your Wealth Management | Manu Awasthy(Centricity WealthTech)
Manu Awasthy spent over two decades managing wealth for India's ultra-rich at Citibank, IIFL Wealth, and 360 ONE before founding Centricity...
How EtherealX and Manu Nair Are Challenging SpaceX from India
In this episode, Manu Nair, Co-Founder and CEO of EtherealX, breaks down the engineering breakthroughs, fundraising battles, and geopolitica...
AI-Powered Village Clinics: Inside CureBay's Plan to Serve a Billion Patients
In this episode, we uncover how Priyadarshi Mohapatra turned CureBay into one of India's most ambitious rural healthtech ventures, raising $...
Pranav Pai (3one4 Capital) on Backing Licious, Darwinbox & India's Next Decade of Unicorns
Pranav Pai, Founding Partner and CIO of 3one4 Capital, has spent a decade betting on Indian founders at the earliest possible stage, often w...
From ISRO Scientist to $25M Deep Tech Founder | Prateep Basu (SatSure)
This episode with Prateep Basu, Co-founder and CEO of SatSure, is the deep-tech founder story India's startup ecosystem has been waiting for...
The Lending Business That Never Charges Interest or Late Fees | Nalin Agrawal (SnapMint)
Nalin Agrawal, Co-founder of SnapMint, is a three-time entrepreneur and IIT Bombay alumnus who has quietly built one of India's most efficie...
How Fynd Powers the Global Retail Industry
In this episode, Sreeraman "SMG" Mohan Girija shares how Fynd became the retail technology backbone powering 2,300+ brands, 20,000 stores, a...
Sreevathsa Prabhakar (Servify) Explains The Business Model of AppleCare+
Sreevathsa Prabhakar is the serial entrepreneur behind Servify, the B2B insurtech platform that powers extended warranty programs for Apple,...
Ankur Capital's Ritu Verma on Investing in India's Deep Science Revolution
Dr. Ritu Verma, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ankur Capital, breaks down her decade-long journey from experimental physics at the Unive...
4 Near-Death Moments to ₹1,000 Crore Valuation: IDfy Founder Ashok Hariharan on Survival & Scale
In this episode, Ashok Hariharan, Founder and CEO of IDfy, shares the raw, unfiltered story of building India's largest background verificat...
Utham Gowda on Building a $1B ARR Seafood Platform Across 3 Oceans
In this episode, Utham Gowda, Founder and Group CEO of Captain Fresh, reveals one of the most dramatic startup transformations in Indian agr...