Founders Unfiltered

Join us as we talk to Aakrit Vaish, the Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik about their story.  Aakrit Vaish holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which he completed in 2008. Following his graduation, he gained valuable experience by working with renowned companies such as Motorola and Deloitte in the Bay Area. In 2011, Aakrit join...

Join us as we talk to Victor Senapaty, the Founder of Propelld about their story.   Victor Senapaty is a highly acclaimed Indian entrepreneur and the founder of Propelld, a groundbreaking startup that provides assistance to students in securing education loans for higher studies.   He earned his bachelor's degree in technology from IIT Madras, and his MBA from the esteemed Universit...

Join us as we talk to Raghuram Talluri, the Co-founder and CEO at LoadShare Networks about their story.   Raghuram Talluri is a highly accomplished and visionary entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of LoadShare Networks. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Later on, he pursued his master's degree from IIM-L.  Prior to co...

Last fortnight, HealthifyMe released its campaign with Mandira Bedi, hot on the heels of its campaigns with Farhan Akhtar and Sara Ali Khan as it doubled down on celebrity marketing. Tushar Vashisht is an Ivy League alumnus, and a Wall Street banker. When he got a chance to work with Nandan Nilekani on the UID project, he decided to come back to India. He and his roommate Matthew Cherian wanted to...

Join us as we talk to Amrit Acharya, the Co-founder and CEO of Zetwerk about their story.   Meet Amrit Acharya, one of the co-founders of Zetwerk, an India-based online manufacturing platform that connects businesses with manufacturers.  Amrit, along with co-founders Vishal Chaudhary, Srinath Ramakkrushnan, and Rahul Sharma, started Zetwerk in 2018, and it has since become a leading play...

Last fortnight, Kreditbee raised $80M, getting close to a $700M valuation in a funding market that was suffering from lack of capital.    Read The Article Here: https://ajuniorvc.com/kreditbee-tech-fintech-lending-unicorn-loans-startup-india-case-study/  #ajvc #startups #india

Join us today, as we revisit the conversations with our previous founder guests on - "How They Acquired Their First Customers?" Timestamps 00:00 Intro  00:33 DUNZO  02:10 BukuWarung  04:01 Wakefit  05:54 FamPay  08:15 Ather Energy  10:11 Pratilipi  12:07 NoBroker  13:13 Perpule  14:25 Jupiter  15:45 Bewakoof  17:05 Bizongo  19:17 CoinSwit...

Last fortnight, DMart reported ₹11.3K Cr of quarterly revenue, clocking a 25% YoY growth, putting it on track for ~₹40K Cr of annual revenue.  Radhakishan Damani was a stock trader in Dalal Street. In the 80s, he was head-to-head with Harshad Mehta. Mr D lost big with Apollo Tyres - his first encounter with Harshad. But Damani is not a man to accept defeat easily. Damani learnt the art of tra...

Welcome to 2023 with our first podcast. Join us as we speak to our first guest from the United States, who is expanding his startup to India. Amjad was born in Jordan, where he grew up with a computer long before others had it. Like any emerging market, his parents wanted him to get a good education. Instead, he became a hacker who built Replit as a side project while working at Yahoo. In 6 years,...

What a year!   We started with our predictions a few years ago. Now we can't stop waiting for the year to turn and see how we fared against our predictions.   Last year we made six predictions on IPO and unicorn counts, D2C, Creator ecosystems, deep tech and fintech.   During a year when people saw crazy overnight changes in the status quo (Ukraine invasion, interest rate hikes), we...

Join us as we talk to Jani Pasha, the Co founder and CEO of Lokal about their story.   Jani Pasha completed his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur in 2013. Later, he worked with companies, including Tata Steel and Zoomo India. He founded businesses including Halfteaspoon and TheSoup before starting Lokal in 2018. He was also a participant in Ycombinator S19 and was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2...

Join us as we talk to Aprameya Radhakrishna, the Co-founder and CEO of Koo about their story.   Aparmeya started his career as a software engineer at Infosys and then moved to other corporate roles before deciding to quit to start his first company Taxi for sure. The idea for Koo, occurred to them while building thier second company, Vokal. Koo then took off growing rapidly as it was promoted...

Join us as we talk to Srikanth Velamakanni, the Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman of Fractal Analytics about their story.   Srikanth Velamakanni completed his engineering bachelor's degree from IIT Delhi and later pursued an MBA at IIM Ahemdabad. He held positions at ANZ Investment Bank as an associate and ICICI Bank as an assistant manager. He was also a member of the AI...

Join us as we talk to Manish Jethani, the Founder of Hevodata about their story.   Manish Jethani hails from a small town in India called Shahdol. He finished his graduation from IIT Roorkee and ventured straight into entrepreneurship. Prior to starting Hevodata Manish also founded SpoonJoy which was later acquired by Grofers (now Blinkit). In addition to being an entrepreneur, Jethani h...

Founders Unfiltered Ep-64:   Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Ankit Prasad, the Co-Founder and CEO of Booble AI about their story.   Ankit Prasad is a lifelong entrepreneur, the founder of a tech...

Founders Unfiltered Ep-63:   Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Trivikraman Thampy, the Co-Founder & CEO of Games24x7, about their story.   Vikram (Trivikraman) Thampy is an Aerospace Engineer t...

Join us as we talk to Abhishek Goyal and Neha Singh, the Co-Founders of Tracxn about their story.   Neha Singh pursued her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in technology from IIT Bombay. Later, in 2014, she completed her MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She also served as an Associate with the BCG Group and an Investment Analyst with Sequoia Capital.   Abhishek...

Founders Unfiltered Ep-61:   Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Sagar Khatri, the Co-Founder and CEO of Multiplier Technologies about their story.   Sagar Khatri is the Co-Founder and CEO of Multipl...

Founders Unfiltered Ep-60:  Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Abhishek Nayak, the Co-Founder & CEO of APPSMITH about their story.   Abhishek Nayak is the co-founder and CEO of Appsmith. After earning his degree f...

Last fortnight, MilkyMist announced it was looking to raise 800 Cr in financing, after reporting close to 1,000 Cr in revenue For more details - https://ajuniorvc.com/milky-mist-case-study-cream-cheese-startup-india-fundraising-dairy-amul/ For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/  

Last fortnight, the ED began investigating crypto exchanges in connection with instant lending apps, soon after, the RBI banned PPI instruments from loading via credit lines. In this week's episode of A Junior VC behind the scenes, talk about the history of lending in India which some day is as old as humans. For more details - https://ajuniorvc.com/lending-loan-fintech-credit-navi-startup-india-u...

Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Deepit Purkayastha, the Co-founder of Inshorts about their story. Deepit is a computer science and engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur, where he started building Inshorts in...

Founders Unfiltered Ep-58:   Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Rohan Nayak, the Co-Founder of Pocket FM about their story. Rohan completed his high school at DPS, RK Puram in 2010 and graduated from IIT...

Last fortnight, LEAD reported explosive growth due to the unlocking of schools, hot on the heels of a unicorn fundraise earlier this year.      Join us at https://ajuniorvc.com/community/ to be a part of an exclusive community and grab the opportunity to question and hear our guests live every Sunday.   AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/

Founders Unfiltered Ep-57:   Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Anurag Sinha, the Co-founder, and CEO of One Card about their story. For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/