Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Bala Parthasarathy, CEO MoneyTap chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners.In this conversation, they chat about how entrepreneurs go about choosing their startup sector, some areas Bala encourages entrepreneurs to look at, common pitfalls of Fintech startup ecosystem and a lot more.In the past, Bala has co-founded 3 successful and 1 failed technology startup; Co-founded Angelprime (now Prime Venture). He started Snapfish from scratch and helped build it to a $300M revenue & profitable business spanning 22 countries, sold it to HP in 2005.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:15 - Why Bala decided to startup again after being a successful entrepreneur & investor4:00 - Exciting areas for entrepreneurs in Fin-tech in India10:30 - What are the common pitfalls Fin-tech entrepreneurs should be aware of?13:10 - How should a Fin-tech startup think about growth?16:20 - What is unique about Moneytap?For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/choosing-your-startup-sector-and-avoiding-pitfalls-fintech-startups-bala-parthasarathy-ceo-moneytap/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Anshul Rai, CEO and Co-Founder Happay chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners.In this conversation, they chat about how Happay pivoted from B2C to B2B, expense management industry in India, keeping the customer need in mind while designing product and Happay's expansion plans.Listen to the podcast to learn about2:25 - What is Happay & it’s journey till now?5:20 - Learnings from B2C that helped Happay in it’s B2B journey8:10 - How big is the expense management market in India?12:15 - What’s next for Happay?13:20 - What would Anshul Rai of 2019 tell to Anshul Rai of 2014?For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/evolution-fintech-happay-anshul-rai-ceo-and-co-founder-happay/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners chats with Ankit Gupta, Co-Founder Quizizz, one of our portfolio companies.In this conversation, they chat about how Quizizz has successfully pivoted into a learning platform that turns homework and test into the game, how they were able to mark their presence in 50% US schools without spending a dollar on marketing and importance of design on digital products.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:00 - How the childhood experiences of the two founders sparked the idea for Quizizz4:30 - 2 user feedbacks that led to the birth of Quizizz7:30 - When will we see Quizizz in Indian classrooms?8:30 - Why Quizizz’s marketing spend has always  been $0?10:30 - What role did design play in the success of Quizizz?For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/quizizz-transforming-homework-and-tests-kids-ankit-gupta-co-founder-quizizz/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners chats with Byas Nambisan, CEO Ezetap, one of the early companies on our portfolio. In this conversation, they discuss Byas’s transition from CFO to CEO of Ezetap, driving seamless change within the organization and his passion for restoring cars.  Byas has been the chief financial officer at Ezetap since 2014 and has been among one of the key members of the top leadership team. He had spent 20 years at Intel Corporation and had taken up the role of CFO at Intel India.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:10 - Byas’s career journey and what brought him to Ezetap3:30 - How Byas addressed concerns of multiple stakeholders after the founders left6:30 - ‘I am not afraid to fail. I am afraid to do nothing.’8:10 - How Byas handled the transition from a CFO to a CEO10:30 - What passion of Byas led him to be known as a mechanic13:10 - What are Ezetap’s future plans? For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/navigating-through-change-byas-nambisan-ceo-ezetap/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ (https://primevp.in/podcast/product-market-fit-culture-scale-and-profitability-rajiv-srivatsa-co-founder-urban-ladder/)This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Sumit Chhazed, Co-Founder of OTO Capital chats with Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners about Automotive leasing industry in India.On this episode, they discuss how OTO Capital is disrupting Automotive industry, how customer mindset on purchasing a vehicle is changing and OTO's future plans.After leading CredR for 3 years serving over 100K customers in used vehicles segment, Sumit took an exit in July last year from an operational role and have decided to go ahead with a mission to reinvent the concept of vehicle ownership with his new venture OTO Capital.Listen to the podcast to learn about1:10 - Recent trends in automobile ownership. What has changed?3:20 - What role OTO capital is playing in the automobile ownership space8:00 - Bringing leasing to retail11:15 - What is OTO selling to people? Savings or Dreams?For transcript of this episode click here (https://primevp.in/content/podcast/future-leasing-auto-industry-sumit-chhazed-co-founder-oto-capital/)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: http://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Rajiv Srivatsa, Co-Founder of Urban Ladder chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners after he decided to move out from active role at Urban Ladder.On this episode, they discuss Rajiv's journey of building Urban Ladder, becoming an entrepreneur, building a company culture and his future plans.Rajiv is Co-founder of Urban Ladder and has helped build it towards becoming the #1 omni-channel brand for furniture in India. Urban Ladder has Raised 5 rounds of ~$100M capital from several VC Funds.Listen to the podcast to learn about02:55 - First ‘wow’ moment for Rajiv as the founder of Urban ladder05:30 - When did it become clear that Indian consumer can buy furniture online08:45 - Challenging parts of being an entrepreneur11:25 - Rajiv’s one advice to entrepreneurs13:15 - What wrong advice(s) entrepreneurs get often18:40 - What’s next for Rajiv SrivatsaYou can read the complete transcript hereWant to learn more about building a startup from scratch? Listen to this episode with Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder InfoEdge Group(Naukri, Jeevansaathi, Shiksha, and others)Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback

Vinay Bagri, Co-Founder and CEO of Niyo chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.Listen to the podcast to learn about: 00:45 - What’s exciting about Neobanking03:15 - Vinay’s journey from a banker to a fin-tech founder06:45 - How Niyo Global helps a traveller & what is unique about it11:20 - How Niyo achieved Product Market Fit13:45 - How Niyo reaches blue collar workers18:55 - How a fin-tech entrepreneur should think about partnering with large banks21:25 - How a fin-tech entrepreneur can find opportunities24:00 - Building founding team for a fin-tech startupYou can read the complete transcript hereWant to learn about the origins of Neo Banking and the future of it? Listen to this episode with Shamir Karkal, Co-Founder of the world's first Neo Bank.  Enjoyed the podcast? Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe wherever you are listening to this.Follow Prime Venture Partners:Twitter: https://twitter.com/Primevp_inLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primevp/ This podcast is for you. Do let us know what you like about the podcast, what you don't like, the guests you'd like to have on the podcast and the topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes. Please share your feedback here: https://primevp.in/podcastfeedback