Founders Unfiltered

Last fortnight, Mamaearth announced that it was gearing up for a $3Bn IPO, hot on the heels of the company becoming a unicorn. For more - https://ajuniorvc.com/mamaearth-unicorn-consumer-startup-india-ipo-brand-shark-tank-alagh-case-study/

Last fortnight, Zomato acquired Blinkit, hot on the heels of Swiggy shutting down SuprDaily and Zepto raising a $200M round as the quick commerce market twisted and turned. For more details - https://ajuniorvc.com/quick-commerce-10-minutes-blinkit-swiggy-zomato-zepto-unicorn/

Founders Unfiltered Ep-56:   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 Chirag Taneja, the Co-founder, and CEO of GoKwik about their story. For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/

In what was the biggest stock market listing in India, LIC IPO-d last fortnight at 6 lakh crore or almost $90Bn, rocketing to India’s #5   For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/lic-ipo-history-case-study-valuation-insurance-startup-journey/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/ 

Founders Unfiltered Ep-55:   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 Prashant Pitti, the Co-Founder of EaseMyTrip about their story.   About Prashant Pitti: Prashant Pitti is the co-founder of EaseMyTrip....

Last fortnight, Open Financial Technologies became India’s 100th unicorn after raising $50M in its Series D funding round.     Read the complete article here - https://ajuniorvc.com/open-100-unicorn-fintech-india-startup-case-study-niyo-bank-neobank/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/

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 Prabhkiran Singh, the Co-Founder of Bewakoof about their story. For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/ About Prabhkiran Singh: Prabhkiran Singh is the Founder and C...

Last fortnight, Indian upstart Hasura enabled GraphQL hot on the heels of becoming India’s newest DevOps unicorn For more follow the link - https://ajuniorvc.com/hasura-unicorn-india-startups-saas-developer-tools-devops-postman/

Last fortnight, Parle launched a campaign with RRR stars Ram Charan and Alia Bhatt, a first for the brand with the pairing as it targeted reaching 20,000 Cr of sales For more details visit: https://ajuniorvc.com/parle-bisleri-case-study-history-brands-positioning/ 

About AJVC: A Junior VC was started in 2018 with the belief that there is whitespace on conversations by venture capitalists in the entrepreneurial and startup ecosystem in India.   AJVC has 4 offerings - Startup Stories, Founders' Unfiltered Podcast, the Slack community, and Startup Concepts.   For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/

In May 2018, Walmart announced that it would pay $16 billion for 77% of Flipkart. Sachin decided to sell his 5.5% stake in the company he founded for Rs 7,650 crore. Three years later, he founded Navi with a vision to build a financial services behemoth over the next two decades. The vision to build Flipkart into a global behemoth had been tantalizingly close but snatched. And with Navi, the hunge...

Join us as we talk to Aniket Deb, the Co-Founder of Bizongo about their story.   About Aniket Deb: He is the Co-Founder and COO at Bizongo, a full stack supply chain enablement platform for customised goods. He graduated from IIT Bombay in 2013 and founded Bizongo in 2015. While working for Housing.com, Opera Solutions, EY and Biocon prior to establishing his own company, he gained extensive...

Last fortnight, Pune based Elastic Run crossed 1,000 Cr of revenue as it also raised $300M to build yet another Indian unicorn.   Link to the article: https://ajuniorvc.com/elasticrun-ecommerce-unicorn-rural-logistics-case-study-indian-startup-tech/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/

Founders Unfiltered Ep-51:  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 Harsh Pokharna, the Co-Founder & CEO of OkCredit about their story.   For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/

Last fortnight, Nepal became the first country outside India to adopt UPI, hot on the heels of the announcement of a digital heavy budget.    More details - https://ajuniorvc.com/india-stack-fintech-unicorn-upi-aadhar-explained-case-study-global/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/ 

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 Nitin and Vasant, two of the co-founder of OfBusiness about their story. Asish’s desire to leave a crater of impact in the world, coupled with his “hands-on” nature of getting into...

Last fortnight, DeHaat posted a 2x jump in revenue, growing to 350Cr, hot on the heels of the largest fundraise announcement for an Indian agritech. For more details visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/dehaat-agritech-india-startup-case-study-business-model-unicorn/

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 Akhil Gupta, the co-founder and CTO of NoBroker about their story. Mr. Akhil Gupta started his career with Oracle after he graduated form college. Over the years, he watched IRCTC,...

Last fortnight, DarwinBox raised $72M and became a unicorn, continuing the momentum of unicorns in 2021 and becoming the first pure-play Indian HR tech company to do so. Link to full article here: https://ajuniorvc.com/darwinbox-hr-saas-unicorn-india-startup-sap-oracle-hrm-case-study/

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 Amit Ramani, the founder of Awfis about their story.   Mr. Amit Ramani was born in a family of engineers and took up architecture. He went on to pursue a master's...

Last fortnight, Ather Energy raised $60M in its newest round, as Tesla got courted by Indian states to set up a manufacturing plant   Article Link: https://ajuniorvc.com/electric-vehicles-future-ather-ola-bajaj-india-startup-tech-tesla/ More info on: https://ajuniorvc.com/

Last fortnight, MapMyIndia had a blockbuster IPO, becoming a $1Bn company as it listed after 3 decades.   For more details Visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/mapmyindia-story-india-startup-ipo/

Banks, across geographies, have been slow to catch up with technology. Customers who are exposed to new age, high quality services are often frustrated when left to deal with complex, irrelevant communication and poor consumer experience. Virender Bisht, who interacted closely with banks for payment solutions, was shocked to see the pace of technology adoption. He started looking for ways to disru...

For more details visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/2022-predictions-2021-recap-ipo-d2c-fintech-indian-startup/

A famous World War II term ‘Blitzkreg’ was used to describe scenarios where armies moved very fast, surprised enemies, and won. You either won big or lost big. ‘Blitzscaling’ in the startup world, while on a positive note, has a similar perspective. Companies find their space in a market and move extremely fast to expand their user base and revenue. Like the armies, this is often done on unfamilia...