The Neon Show

Brij Bhasin (General Partner at Rebright Partners, Ex-Operating Partner at GSF India).In 2012 he joined GSF (India's first multi-city accelerator program for early-stage tech product startups). Then in 2015, he joined Rebright Partners (an early stage Japanese Venture Capital Fund investing across Deep Tech, Healthcare, Mobility, Enterprise SaaS, B2B products and Internet/Mobile). Some succes...

Sukhbir Singh is a well-known Bollywood singer. He is also called the prince of Bhangra. He has recently become an active startup investor. His first investment is in the beverage market in India. In this podcast, Sukhbir shares his journey of how living hand to mouth in Kenya, in a Gurudwara taught him humbleness and never letting your success or work change your human principles. His parents mig...

Semil Shah, Founder at Haystack & Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, talks about his journey to becoming a successful Venture Capitalist. Semil founded Haystack in 2013 (An Early Stage Investment Fund). Some successful portfolio companies in Haystack include DoorDash, Instacart, Carta, Giphy, and Wag. Some Questions answered by Semil in this Podcast -1. What are his learnings for...

Sanjeev Aggarwal is the Founder of The Fundamentum Partnership, Growth stage fund. Sanjeev has also been the Founder of Helion Ventures, one of the earliest Venture Capital Funds in India established in 2006.Sanjeev started his entrepreneurial journey as the Co-Founder of Daksh, one of the largest BPO in India which sold to IBM for $150 Million in 2004.Sanjeev shares his investing thesis in the po...

Prashant Pansare is the Co-Founder of Eagle10 Ventures, Seed Stage Fund investing $150,000 to $450,000 as the first external check in the startup. Eagle10 has invested in 6 startups which include TravelSpice, Zestl, Pi Beam Labs, Mate Labs, Net Analytics. Prashant has been founder of Playerify, Online Prasad, Medissist. Excerpt from the podcastPrashant's 5 favourite mistakes from his entrepre...

In this podcast with we explore Mayank Khanduja’s journey as an investor at SAIF Partners India. SAIF is among the Tier-1 early stage investors in India, investing across all sectors. Mayank comes from a family of engineers so getting highest education was the top priority in his family. After completing his engineering from Delhi, Mayank went on to MBA from IIM-Calcutta. After working 5 years in...

Raja Ganapathy is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Spring Marketing Capital, a skin in the game marketing capital firm that partners with founders to offer capital & marketing expertise. Raja has been ex-Chief Marketing Officer of Sequoia Capital India and has delivered some of the biggest marketing campaigns like BYJU'S.Why should you listen to the podcast ?- If you would like to k...

Ajay Hattangdi is Managing Partner and Co-founder of Alteria Capital, India’s largest venture debt fund. Ajay started the country’s first venture debt program while at Citibank in 2005. He subsequently went on to create the first dedicated venture debt business in the country as the founding CEO for InnoVen Capital’s flagship India NBFC which he ran from 2007 to 2017. Alteria Capital was started b...

Hari TN is Chief People Officer BigBasket and Strategic Advisor, The Fundamentum Partnership, Growth Stage VC Fund. Hari is also an angel investor in Rocketium, BestDoc, UnFound.ai, Jiny.ioWe discuss in the podcast about:1. Hari's learnings and lessons from 17 years journey in Startups2. The early story on team building in TaxiForSure. Also we discuss about the TaxiForsure $200 Million exit a...

Ameera Shah is Founder and Managing Partner of Metropolis Healthcare, one of the largest and most trusted Healthcare Diagnostic company of India. Ameera joined Metropolis when it was 1 lab in South Mumbai started by her father. Over the years she expanded Metropolis to 120 Labs and 2400 collection centres. Metropolis Healthcare went IPO in April 2019. The company in recent fiscal year posted Rs 76...

Kunal Khattar is the Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders, an early stage Venture Capital Fund focussed on transportation and mobility sectors in India. The big investments of the fund include Shuttl, Rapido and Chalo. We discuss in the podcast about:1. Why AdvantEdge chooses to focus on only mobility startups ?2. In India 300 Million commutes happen every day India. How AdvantEdge...

Sarbvir Singh is Managing Partner at Waterbridge Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital Fund based out of India. Sarbvir started his journey as a Venture Capitalist in 2007 with Capital 18, the VC arm of media conglomerate Network 18.Back then he was one of the first institutional checks in Bookmyshow, which is today a Unicorn and Yatra, which went public on NASADAQ.Waterbridge was started by Ma...

Rajan Anandan is an Angel Investor and Ex-VP, Google India & SEA.Here is what we discuss in this podcast:1) We seem to have entered a new phase of the Indian startup ecosystem..what has changed ?2) Is monetising getting better for consumer startups ?3) Views on SaaS ?4) Big spaces like e-commerce and mobility seeing a lot of renewed interest..what is happening?5) 3 of Rajan's recent inves...

Kanwaljit Singh is the Managing Partner and Founder of Fireside Ventures. Fireside Ventures is early stage Venture Capital Fund investing only in Consumer Brands. Kanwaljit Singh is also known as the gardener of new Consumer Brands in India. Before Fireside, he invested personally in Paperboat, IDFresh. Both of them showed interesting sparks of what was happening in the Indian consumer market. He...

Amit Somani is Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners, an early stage fund investing in Technology startups in India. Amit previously was Chief Product Officer at MakeMyTrip, which went IPO in 2010. Before MakeMyTrip Amit was Head of Product at Google India. Few notable quotes from Amit Somani at 100x Entrepreneur podcast:1. "Came back to India in 2007 from Silicon Valley when I though Indi...

Karthik Reddy is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures, one of best early stage Venture Capital Funds in India. Blume Ventures started in 2010 as $20 million fund. Today the 3rd fund of Blume is $100 million. Blume has invested in 120 startups in the last 8 years. Some of the well known startups in Blume portfolio are TaxiForSure, GreyOrange Robotics, Unacademy, Locus, Exotel, Mett...

Rajul Garg is the Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital, a Pre-Series-A Venture Capital Fund. Rajul has been the founder of two Billion Dollar companies Global Logic and Pine Labs. Rajul is counted among the top 10 early stage investors from India. Some of notable quotes by Rajul from the podcast:1. On purpose in life ?"My view of life is to be more in the present. I like to think here...

Pawan Raj Kumar is the Founder of Supa Foods and Hoi Foods. Supa foods is known for products like Supa corn and misht which are available in more than 3,000 retail outlets in India. Pawan is also an active angel investor in 15+ startups. Some of well known startups, where is an angel investor are Qikwell(Acquired by Practo), LifCare and Leverage Edu. Pawan has an entrepreneurial experience of 24 y...

Alok Mittal is the Founder and CEO of Indifi, SME lending platform leveraging technology and data in full loan lifecycle. Before Indifi Alok was Managing Partner of Canaan Partners India, one of well known Venture Capital firms. Alok's first startup JobsAhead was acquired by Monster. Alok shares during the podcast:1. Why he invests in startups ?2. How he evaluates the startups which reach out...

Anjalli Ravikumar is the Social Mission Director at Unilever, the largest FMCG company in India and one of the largest in the world. Anjalli heads Fair and Lovely Career Foundation which is making huge impact in education and career guidance for young girls. Anjalli wanted to solve big problems for which there are no easy answers. She quit corporate sector very early after doing MBA and joined dev...

Hetal Sonpal is a well known Angel Investor in more than 20 startups in India. He has 20 year corporate technology business stint with Wipro, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Intel. In this podcast Hetal shares:1. Why he became an angel investor ?a. He has successful exits with BabyChakra, MassBlurb and AllisHealthb. His portfolio companies Vahdam Teas, Advantage Club, Impact Guru, Leverage Edu are the bigges...

If you want to know how Private Equity investors can help in your entrepreneurial journey you must listen to the podcast with Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity. Kaizen is the only home grown fund which has scaled across geographies. Kaizen is investor in companies like KLAY, Toppr, Varthana Finance, Insofe. Sandeep shares his thoughts on1. Why he choose to start a...

Rehan Yar Khan is the Founder and Managing Partner at Orios Venture Partners. Orios is considered among the best Venture Capital firms in India focussed on early stage startups. Rehan was the first investor in Ola & Dhruva, among the few startups in India with Billion Dollar valuation. Ola is the largest Mass Transportation company in India. In this podcast Rehan shares:1. His entrepreneurial...

Girish Shivani is a Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund. Girish started Yournest Venture Fund in 2011 and has witnessed Indian Startup evolve from infancy in last 8 years. In this podcast Girish shares:1. Why all Venture Capalists are not evi😈2. How he became a VC by accident 3. What is required from an entrepreneur to make him sign a check💰4. Why he replies to all emails by entrepre...

Pankaj Bansal is the Founder and CEO of PeopleStrong, India's largest HR Tech company. In this podcast Pankaj shares:1. How he built a $100 million yearly revenue business 2. His plans of taking PeoplesStrong to IPO in next 3 years3. His daily habits, mindset and schedule4. How he built a large and efficient sales engine5. How with only 150 clients PeopleStrong is doing business of $100 milli...