The First Cheque Show

In this episode of The First Cheque Show, Rishab Malik sits down with Salone Sehgal, founder and managing partner of Lumikai Fund, India’s first gaming-focused venture capital fund, to trace her journey from gaming entrepreneur to investor.   Salone shares how her early experiences in finance and gaming shaped her worldview, what it took to raise capital for a gaming startup in 2014, and how those...

In this episode of The First Cheque Show, Rishab Malik sits down with Cameron Priest, founder of TradeGecko and now co-founder of AMP, to explore the journey of building, exiting, and intentionally starting over. Cameron shares how TradeGecko grew from an idea in Singapore to a global SaaS player acquired by Intuit and what the acquisition actually looked like from the inside. He talks about opera...

What does it take to build a premium Indian brand in a legacy category? In this episode of The First Cheque Show, Rishab Malik sits down with Arindam Paul, founding team member and Chief Business Officer at Atomberg, to unpack the building blocks behind one of India’s most distinctive D2C brands. They trace Atomberg’s journey from an engineering-led idea to a INR 1,000 crore business with over 10...

The Jungle Code kicks off with The First Cheque Show. In the debut episode, Rishab Malik, Partner, Seed investments at Jungle Ventures and Abhishek Goyal, Founder & CEO of Tracxn, unpack the First Cheque Report 2024 from the perspectives of both a founder and an active angel investor. They discuss the rise of local investors, flow of Seed capital beyond tier 1 cities, and how founder teams are...