S0E2: Millionaire Mondays - Rajiv Srivatsa, Urban Ladder + Antler India

In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, Caleb Friesen sits with Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner and Investor at Antler India, to discuss his professional journey.  

00:00 - Intro 02:13 - Leaving Urbanladder 03:27 - Moving on to Antler 09:42 - How Antler India started? 15:04 - Meeting co-founder(s) 16:46 - How to start a VC firm? 21:39 - Antler's Business Model 26:38 - Founder Hat to Investor Hat 28:33 - Antler India's sectoral focus 30:27 - India: Building for the world 34:01 - Being flexible as an investor 37:10 - Future plans  

Rajiv Srivatsa started his professional career with corporate roles in companies like Infosys, Congizant and Yahoo.   He started Urbanladder in 2012 with his IIMB batchmate Ashish Goel and ran it for almost 7 years. At it's peak company was valued at over 1 Billion dollars.   In 2019, Urbanladder was acquired by Reliance and Rajiv moved on to his next adventure.   

During this time he was approached by Antler Global team to start Antler in India and Rajiv along with his co-founder Nitin, started Antler India in June of 2020.  Antler India partners with early-stage founders to build scalable startups, by guiding them through the entire process from inception to raising a Series A. They offer a stipend of Rs 1 lakh and a pre-seed fund after 10 weeks for selected startups.  Rajiv's plan for the near future is to strengthen entrepreneurship in India through Antler, and he feels startups are the way for our country to progress.  

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