The biggest paradox of early stage investing: VCs are creating frameworks and rule books while fully knowing that truly great outcomes have been delivered by founders who rewrote the rules...

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This is insane. Political parties asking money to operate. Then the govt collects taxes and gives nothing in return. On top of all this, the rampant corruption. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

If you are an early stage / aspiring founder in Bangalore; here is a potential deal. Send me a note (text / audio / video / whatever) at ranjeet@pratilipi.com. <1>

Resilience in the face of adversity. This is what this team will be known for. They are the dark horse, the sleeping giant. Watchout

📢 Gemba Capital 2024 Year in Review 📢 - Our portfolio by numbers (since inception) - Investments in 2024 - Fund I Portfolio Highlights - Sectors to watch out for in 2025 link.medium.com/aSgAx9kamQb @GembaCapital @KaminiS3 @VipulRawalHere @AnupreetLamba @ThEbmr @GovindKL @ShashankRG23 #investing #yearinreview #VentureCapital #microvc #startups

💥 Funding Announcement 💥 @GembaCapital is thrilled to be partnering with Fairdeal to scale online and regional businesses offline. Fairdeal is a distribution-as-a-service (DaaS) company, it is a tech-enabled retail market access platform for consumer brands enabling offline commerce for them, digitally. If you run a consumer / D2C business in the mass market segment in India or know someone who does...talk to these folks at Fairdeal ! @GembaCapital @aditya_vargante @KaminiS3 @VipulRawalHere @AnupreetLamba inc42-com.cdn.ampproject.org… #retail #d2c #venture #investment #earlystage #omnichannel

Gemba Capital 2022 Year in Review -Our reflections on early stage investing and our portfolio by numbers bit.ly/3VIuEhf @GembaCapital @KaminiS3 @aditya_vargante @VipulRawalHere @AnupreetLamba #investing #yearinreview #VentureCapital #microvc #startups

In the latest episode of #TechThisWeek, Gautam Kshatriya joins the newsroom to unpack #UpScalio’s latest funding round and the journey ahead. Also, in TTW, key hirings in the #startup industry, #Meesho -Shadowfax and more. #Video bit.ly/2UxLV36

42.5 million reasons for us to focus execution. Onwards and Upwards... [Funding alert] UpScalio discloses fundraise of $42.5M as part of Series A funding yourstory.com/2021/08/fundin…

Indian founders, if VCs/Investors are walking away from signed term sheets or renogiating in bad faith, email me at ranjeet@pratilipi.com Probably can't help you much but I gotta have a list of investors I would never recommend to other founders.

Corporates should learn from startups. Despite of lack of defined roles, WIP process controls, startups were ready enough to adopt 💯% WFH faster than the established and mature businesses. Kudos to the Founders.

Testing times bring out either the worst or the best in people. These times have certainly brought out the best in people. Proud to be a human. Requesting everyone to help security guards, maintenance staff in residential complexes with food. A little gesture goes a long way

Bhai kitne neo-banks aayenge. These products are incrementally better in experience at best. Inertia to switch is far stronger than the differential in experience.

Twitter should be rebranded as Troller #keeptrolling

Cloud Startup Minjar Raises Funding from Blume Ventures, Others inc42.com/buzz/cloud-minjar-… via @inc42

India's first summit to discuss 'Future of #Cloud and #Digital Businesses'! Register now: hubs.ly/H07JfXd0 #Technology #defstar5

Pratilipi family is now 10,000 authors strong ☺ Onwards to 100,000 authors in next 18 months, and 1,000,000 authors in next 4 years.

Work automation platform Squad raises $2.1M from Indian, Valley-based investors yourstory.com/2017/04/squad-… via @YourStoryCo

#racetothebottom for Snapdeal, Ola n Flipkart.My bet on Snapdeal winning the race.Can they discount their way faster to d finishing line?