Investors | Page 8

While India needs more homegrown VCs to emerge, these Indian start-up entrepreneurs have also become important part of the investing ecosystem

Rehan Yar Khan, managing partner at Orios Venture Partners, talks about Unicorns going for IPOs, prospects for new start-ups and the overall scenario

The sheer enthusiasm, vigour, and even artificially fuelled excitement-funding-blinds the typical entrepreneur of the planning imperative

"Those first moments when companies start thinking about raising capital for the purpose of regional expansion has been our focus for the last nine years," says Levit

Archit Vijoy, associate at DSG Consumer Partners, talks about the mindset of investors

Windrose Capital has invested in several companies till now and made exits from four

Getting the timing right and whether the founders are clear about what they want for their start-ups are some of the things that Dhianu Das looks at before investing.

Vikas Sarda, chief financial officer of Unitus Capital, believes public money is a different game altogether and should be availed only after attaining certain size

While investors have always been known to guide entrepreneurs, some money managers have learnt valuable lessons such as the ability to keep going and finding answers when there are none from start-up founders that they have worked with

The Indian government has been actively taking steps to transform the business landscape in the country. Recently, the government allowed 100% FDI in several sectors, including Oil, Energy and Infrastructure

Speaking at the online event Startup Funding Summit organised by MyDreamStore.in, Sama said entrepreneurs need to be themselves while pitching

The government needs to bring more coherence to its policies and their implementation as India puts one foot on the paddle in the EV race, according to Koushik Bhattacharya, Avendus Capital

Veteran investor Joseph Bernhard Mark Mobius, Founder, Mobius Capital Partners, advocates ESG-based investments and inspires people to invest for good - to make the world a better place.

IIFL Asset Management's seed venture fund believes that providing adequate and timely capital to entrepreneurs makes them execute ideas better

Blume Ventures is on track to have at least 2 unicorns in its portfolio in the next two years, says Ashish Fafadia

Schwark Satyavolu, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, shares the highs and learnings of being an investor

Arka Venture Labs is an India-US cross-border accelerator fund designed to facilitate a faster global transition for Indian B2B start-ups

As consumption patterns change due to social and environmental dynamics, Lightbox' Sandeep Murthy stresses on the need to build solutions for these complex problems.

Entrepreneur-turned investor Bhaskar Majumdar says that the role of the investor is to ensure that things are on track

The criticality of execution and importance of founding teams has been proven to us time and again, according to Rohit Goyal, managing partner of Windrose Capital

Impact fund Omnivore looks for start-ups that are working towards developing breakthrough technologies in food and agriculture verticals, according to managing partner Mark Kahn