Invest Stream by Saka Ventures

This is a fully AI generated audio briefing of news in the US and India tech and startup industries. First up, we're seeing significant shifts in the B2B landscape thanks to AI. AI-native companies are demonstrating incredible revenue efficiency, and speed is critical for success. Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3, moving towards more adaptable AI. Veefin...

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news int he US and India tech and startup industries. Welcome to your daily business news briefing! Let's dive right in. First up, Hyderabad Angel Fund has launched a 11.3 million dollar fund to back early-stage startups, signaling growing investor confidence in the Indian startup ecosystem. In the UK, Apple is facing a potential 1.27...

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news int he US and India tech and startup industries. Let's dive into today's business news! First, Zaggle Q2 profit jumped 72% YoY, driven by new clients and cross-selling. Cadabams Group invested $7.3M in AI-powered mental health platform MindTalk. In leadership changes, Sharon Pais is moving from Myntra to head Flipkart's fa...

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news int he US and India tech and startup industries.

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news int he US and India tech and startup industries. Links are in the show notes below. Let's dive into the latest business headlines. First, InCred Holdings has confidentially filed for an IPO with SEBI, aiming to raise between 4,000 and 5,500 crore rupees. The company, focused on consumer and SME lending, reported a 50% year-over-ye...

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news int he US and India tech and startup industries. Links are in the show notes below. Let's dive into the latest business news. First, Pocket FM has achieved profitability by leveraging AI for content creation, reaching $350 million in annual recurring revenue. Zetwerk is seeing significant momentum in the Indian manufacturing secto...

This is a fully AI generated summary and audio briefing of news int he US and India tech and startup industries. Hello and welcome to the daily business briefing. Let's dive right in. The Congressional Budget Office confirmed it was recently hacked, raising concerns about government cybersecurity. This serves as a reminder for all organizations to prioritize robust security measures. In M&...

Kavin is the founder of Indian unicorn, Hike. In this discussion, we discuss the challenges of pivoting a unicorn, dealing with investors, hiring and letting people go and an exciting dive into the spiritual aspect of being an entrepreneur. This discussion originally took place on Clubhouse. Don’t miss it!

Fabrice Grinda is the founder of Zingy, Aucland OLX and FJ Labs, a VC firm and venture studio based in NYC, focusing on marketplace businesses. FJ Labs has invested in hundreds of companies such as Alibaba, Bla Bla Car, Zolostays, Brightroll, ZoomCar and many many more.  In 2018, Forbes named Fabrice the #1 Angel investor in the world.  On this episode of Invest Stream , Fabrice shares h...

On this episode of Invest Stream Live, Arjun Dev Arora, Founder of Valence Advisory, joins Invest Stream to share some tips on how to go about raising an early-stage venture capital fund for the first time. Why should one do it? What are some of the pitfalls? What do Limited Partners (LPs) want to see and what do they not like and a lot more about how one should go about raising a first time fund....

Who is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before? I've been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, LTCM, operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at BarCamp Delhi, co-founder of HeadStart Network Foundation and Startup Weekend India. I've been a venture capitalist at TLabs and 500 Startups, advisor to startups, fun...

Who is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before? I've been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, LTCM, operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at BarCamp Delhi, co-founder of HeadStart Network Foundation and Startup Weekend India. I've been a venture capitalist at TLabs and 500 Startups, advisor to startups, fun...

Who is "Pankaj Jain" besides being the founder of Invest Stream and Founder Craft What came before? I've been a risk manager at the largest hedge fund in the world, LTCM, operator, product manager, entrepreneur, community builder at BarCamp Delhi, co-founder of HeadStart Network Foundation and Startup Weekend India. I've been a venture capitalist at TLabs and 500 Startups, advisor to startups, fun...

The global lockdown response to the covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on startups across the world. On this episode of Invest Stream, join me as I discuss the challenges of navigating through this crisis with Amol Sarva, the founder and CEO of Knotel, a NYC-based flexible workspace provider. I spoke with Amol Sarva, founder of Knotel. Knotel is a flexible workspace startup providing headqua...

How does one go from being an operator to starting a venture capital fund? Rob Go, co-founder of NextView Ventures shared how he got started as a VC, how companies in NextView’s portfolio as well as NextView have been adapting to the pandemic, what’s changed for the firm since the pandemic hit, the new accelerator program and much much more. Rob Go is a co-founder and Partner at NextView Ventures....

Over the last twenty years, India has seen a tremendous amount of economic activity in the tech arena. The startup and venture capital ecosystems were a bit slow to pick-up, partly due to low Internet penetration until just a few years ago. That, however, didn’t prevent the creation of unicorns like Flipkart, Snapdeal and others. Since 2017, India has seen numerous new venture capital firms being...

IP Protection can be something very important for a startup but it can also be a very expensive thing to do and do right. Some tech startups consider raising money primarily for filing patents and other intellectual property protections while others think it might be a good idea to raise money from angels or venture capitalists specifically to protect the IP they've created. In this short episode...

A lot is changing in the startup world. Even before getting hit with COVID-19, the definitions of pre-seed, seed, post-seed/pre-series A were changing at a fast clip. Many early-stage VCs were moving downstream, writing larger checks and investing in later rounds. At the same time, larger, late-stage VCs were either ramping up their scout programs and investing earlier than every before, other VCs...

This week on InvestStream, I talk with Miten Sampat, Chief Strategy Officer at Times Internet (the largest media company in India) and Sonali Thapar, Director of TCAP Investments, a family office based in India. Listen to insights on how the market is changing, what angel investors and other early stage investors should be thinking about and doing during the global rebalancing. Angel investing in...

As tech startups have continued to thrive over the last decade, more and more people have been either thinking of investing in startups or have started to deploy capital. Others, still sit on the sidelines hearing from friends how some of their startup investments have performed (on paper, at least). On this episode of InvestStream, we’re going to cover some of the risks associated with angel inve...

VCs and angel investors take risks when they invest money into a startup. Most VCs (but not all) get access to updates through "information rights", at least until a certain point in time. However, angels don't always have a legal right to updates about how a company is doing.   On this episode of InvestStream, the founders or Workomo and PaperStreet are going to join Pankaj to discuss how an...

Angel investing into startups has risen significantly over the last decade. Part of the increase in angel investing has been because of the availability of information via blogs and news platforms like TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc. but also because of investing platforms like AngelList. In addition, early successes have yielded a class of angel called the "Super Angel".  Ever thought about ho...

What is the difference between venture capitalists and angel investors? In this episode of InvestStream, I discuss the difference between these two types of startup investors. Knowing the difference can be very useful in understanding a particular investor's motivation for investing or not investing in a startup.  —————  Connect with me on:   YouTube: https://pjain.co/investstream T...

In part one of this episode of InvestStream, I talk about what I look for in a startup’s founding team before making an angel investment into the startup. In part II and III, I will talk about traction and total addressable market size. *** Social ***  Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjain  Instagram: https://instagram.com/pjain001  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pjain001  Fac...