Founders Unfiltered

The AJVC team gets together to discuss Cars24 and their incredible journey becoming India's largest used car marketplace. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Is this Cars24’s Long-Awaited Moment? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Mithun started blowhorn with a bottom-up approach and hustled hard to grow the initial supply of drivers and acquire their first 1,000 customers without spending a single penny on marketing. Join us as we talk to Mithun about how he disrupted the disorganized logistics industry. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

Last fortnight, Urban Ladder was acquired by Reliance for INR 182 Cr, at a steep discount from the 1,200 Cr it was valued at. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece What Happened to Urban Ladder? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Mindtickle started with corporate events to improve employee engagement but over the course of 4 years and many pivots later they created a new category of enterprise software called sales-readiness. Join us as we talk to Deepak about how they built and sold their software to companies all over the world. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the online dating market in India. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Will BharatMatrimony Win Indian Matchmaking? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

On a mission to make quality education accessible to a wider audience, Ashutosh founded his 2nd startup Testbook, a one-stop platform designed for students to achieve better results on government exams. Join us as we talk to Ashutosh about he acquired over 13M users all over India through some innovative offline channels. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the origin story and evolution of Fevicol. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can Fevicol Stick To Trusted 20 Year Building? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Sairee, a serial entrepreneur, realized that the Internet has been built by men, with their needs in mind. Leaving women underserved. Many women have had a bad experience online and there is a lack of trust for women on the internet. Join us as we talk to Sairee about her incredible journey building a safe community helping women with jobs, resources, networking, and advice. More info on: ajuniorv...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the rapid growth of the IPL and how it triggered a sporting renaissance. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can IPL Startup India's Sporting Revolution? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Prasanth talks about his fifteen-year journey from learning how to code through trial and error, turning it into a profession, and then using the skills he acquired to build companies. He proudly discusses his failures and what he learned from it, as he sheds light on how he found product-market fit. Join us as we talk to Prasanth about his incredible journey and finding product-market fit. More i...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the evolution of the agriculture industry in India. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can Agritech Seed India’s New Green Revolution? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Vivek and Neel met while working on Voicetap. In 2016, they started iZooto to help any company with a domain name to engage with their visitors. Today iZooto delivers 60Bn notifications for some of the world's largest media companies without any external funding. This focus on a single customer segment that they could serve best has been one of the biggest reasons for their success and the market...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the direct to home meat and seafood industry. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Can Licious Be India's First Consumer Unicorn?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Gaurav is a serial entrepreneur who has built well over a dozen different products. He learnt how to code as a child and built his product when he was still in college. Since starting SaaS labs in 2014, Gaurav has built several products catering to different themes. Each one is a self-sustaining business with some of his products like Just Call generating millions in annual recurring revenue. Base...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss Space tech and India’s role in defying the odds to become one of the world's space superpowers. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is India Space Tech's Dark Horse?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Harshil was turned down by over a hundred banks when he started Razorpay in 2014. Instead of fretting over it, he spent the time talking to businesses and building a payment gateway to solve their problems. Their customer-centric approach made them one of India's best payment solutions. Once users trusted him to handle payments, branching out into banking services was natural.  Today 800,000...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss pharmeasy and India’s multi-billion dollar and rapidly growing e-pharmacy industry. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Will Pharmeasy Win E-Pharmacy’s Intense Battle? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Shrehith is one of the founders of Finshots.  He met his co-founders in business school and they started writing and gradually built an audience but it was not enough to pay the bills. Just when they were running out of funds, one video went viral which helped them take the company to the next level. Today, Finshots delivers one 3 min read per day to over 100,000 subscribers on India's most i...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss InMobi, India’s first unicorn and one of the pioneers of the Indian tech revolution. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is InMobi Asia’s Advertising Dark Horse?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Kevin is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Gojek. In just a few years, he helped to build Indonesia's first decacorn.  Kevin started his career in investment banking but moved back to Indonesia where he worked for e-retailer Zalora which was founded by Rocket Internet. That’s where he met his co-founder and good friend Nadiem. Kevin joined Nadiem as the CFO of the company in 2014 but as the compan...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the Amul and India’s white revolution that Amul inspired, converting Indian from a Milk deficit national into the world’s largest producer of milk and milk products. Join us for a behind the scenes peak at the A Junior VC piece “Will Amul’s Epic Milk Run Win India’s Consumption Marathon?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Kush is the founder of FamPay. He started the company while he was still in college. He built FamPay with sheer determination and hustle. Today, just a year after Kush graduated from college, FamPay brings cashless convenience to millions of teens and their parents. Join us as we talk to Kush about his incredible entrepreneurial journey. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the Indian fintech ecosystem and the rapid growth of the digital ledger Khattabook. Join us for a behind the scenes peak at the A Junior VC piece “Will Khatabook Uncover Bharat’s Elusive Fortune?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Ankur is the Co-founder and CEO of Nuclei. He has founded a successful restaurant chain and was part of the founding team of Tapzo a venture-backed startup that sold to Amazon. He first learnt to think bigger when he moved to Mumbai to study engineering, well before starting his entrepreneurial journey and he kept thinking bigger at each step in his professional life. Join us as we talk to Ankur a...

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the rise of the edTech industry and how it has bombed and rapidly evolved in India since the 2000s. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is EdTech India’s Next Global Export?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com