E28: Vinay Bansal (CEO, Inflection Point Ventures)

Vinay Bansal is the CEO at Inflection Point Ventures, an early stage angel investing platform. He is a finance professional and turnaround specialist with 20+ years of experience across Fortune 50 companies, private equity & startups. Last, he was Senior Advisor at TPG Global and before that CFO & CIO at Wildcraft India. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and spent the first 14 years of his career in leadership positions across Financial Management and Manufacturing / Supply-chain sourcing functions at GE and Hindustan Unilever.

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In this episode, we will cover:

1. Vinay Intro (2:43)

2. Covid impact –– Macro-level and portfolio-level (3:43)

3. Why has IPV been active when other VC firms have been conservative in their approach during covid (6:48)

4. Will companies getting funded now continue to see similar success post-covid? (11:21)

5. How can startups leverage the pandemic to create moats (16:21)

6. Vinay’s background (20:07)

7. Challenges of being an agnostic firm (28:58)

8. Time management for GPs (33:16)

9. What is CXO genie and how’s that unique to IPV (35:57)

10. How to measure success of a mentor-driven program? (41:29)

11. Measuring portfolio returns and communication with LPs (46:27)

12. Best practices for LP communication (52:20)

13. Rapid fire (55:13)