1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a fundamentals – focused firm that aligns with the 1Mby1M philosophy. Jishnu takes us through several examples of how the firm is thinking about investing in startups. Excellent conversation.

Arijit Sengupta is Founder and CEO at Aible. Previously, Arijit founded another AI startup, BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce.com. This is an excellent discussion, and I urge you to check it out.

Kevin Groome, Founder at Pica9, discusses his journey of building a capital efficient company with just friends and family financing.

Francisco Jardim is Founding Partner at SP Ventures, a Brazilian firm focused on AgTech in Latin America. We learned a lot about what’s happening in the sector and the region.

Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner at rocketship.vc, was an early investor in Facebook. Among other things, we discuss how the quality of startups from India has been improving.

Guillermo Gaspart, Founder and CEO of ByHours.com in Barcelona, shares his wonderful journey of building a unique online travel company. We had an interesting discussion on the issue of how much funding is too much.

Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures (USA), discusses explainable AI in the context of his fund’s investment focus.

Rodrigo Baer, Partner at Redpoint eventures, Brazil, provides a very interesting overview of his firm and what’s happening in the Brazilian ecosystem.

Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep, bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, went through Y Combinator, followed by raising $13 Million.

Sean Dawes, Co-founder at Modded Euros, discusses the state of the union in niche e-commerce startups in the shadow of Amazon’s dominance.