In today’s episode, Pranav Pai, Founding Partner @3one4 Capital joins our host Digjay, to share about his journey leading into venture capital, how 3one4 Capital differentiates itself from other VC funds, challenges of founding and managing a venture capital fund, the key metrics used at 3one4 Capital to measure it's performance as a VC fund and preparing their portfolio companies for a crisis.

Pranav is a Founding Partner at 3one4 Capital - an early-stage venture capital fund based in Bangalore, India. The fund manages a corpus of ~INR 800 Cr (+$110MM) with a portfolio of 50+ early-stage investments across various technology, product, and platform companies in India and US. Pranav has been awarded the “35 under 35” Entrepreneurs of India for 2017 and the “40 under 40” Alternative Investments Professionals of India for 2020. Some of his investments include Licious, Betterplace, Open, Jupiter, ToneTag, DarwinBox, Faircent, Bugworks, Pocket Aces, YourStory, and Tracxn. Pranav is a Stanford Alum, and is the co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India. You can connect with him here on Linkedin / Twitter

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Show notes –

1. Pranav’s background and path to Venture Capital (VC)

2. How is 3one4 Capital different from traditional VC funds?

3. Attracting the best startups; Startup evaluation process at 3one4 Capital

4. Learnings from his time at Stanford and working in the Bay Area

5. Challenges of launching a Venture Capital fund

6. How does 3one4 Capital assess its own performance as a VC fund? What are the qualitative aspects that they focus on?

7. How to prepare yourself and your portfolio companies for a crisis; Surviving the pandemic

8. Rapid fire questions and closing remarks