Founders Unfiltered

Pranay studied at IIT Delhi where he got to be a part of a true community in the form of his hostel. Post his MBA from IIMA, he got a job as a Stock Broker. As work used to get over by 4, he started helping his college startup accelerator after his working hours. This continued for a year after which he came full time as the CEO. After working at the accelerator for 4 years he met his co-founder Varun and decided to start 91 Springboard, a small fund to help startups. To make the fund economics work, they realized the need for a local community of startups. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss Mobile Premier League(MPL) and it's rise to rocketship growth in the fantasy gaming segment. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Is Mobile Premier League the Real Deal?

After graduation, Dhimant worked for a large tech company as a software engineer for 5 years. Intrigued by the business aspects of a company he decided to join a B-School. At ISB he met folks with diverse backgrounds including entrepreneurs that transformed his initial perspective of getting a high-paying job at a corporate. Dhimant highlights the importance of intertwining Business with Impact so both continue to grow simultaneously. Today Better India has a reach of over 90 million people in a month. Join us to learn how Dhimant built and grew Better India to empower citizens and catalyse change. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the evolution of SaaS in India - how we get here and where we are going. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Is India SaaS Ready to Soar? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Ashish built his first website and was competing with tech giants in his 10th grade! In college he kept toying with ideas and code which led to his first startup, providing telecom based value-added services that he exited in 2011. He started a Restaurant with a friend and realizing how painful it is to manage a restaurant, led them to create POSist, a cloud-based platform for restaurants. Today they serve 8000+ clients spread across 22 countries. Join us as we talk to Asish about how POSist evolved overtime to find their business model and customer segment.  More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss Zetwerk and their incredible journey taking India's manufacturers global. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can Zetwerk be the Unicorn Helping Manufacturers Get Work? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Entrepreneur Ajinkya Kulkarni discusses finding a problem to solve in startups, sharing his journey from early failures to founding Growfix. Topics include identifying significant issues, prioritizing problems, launching lending products, investment strategies focusing on fixed income secured by real assets, and the value of self-awareness in startup success.

The AJVC team gets together to discuss Zenoti and their incredible journey of becoming India’s first vertical SaaS unicorn. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can Unicorn Zenoti become Wellness’ Default OS? More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Swapnil landed his dream job when he graduated from college. After 3 years at Twitter, he decided to come back to India and startup. What followed was an 18-month struggled to find the right idea and co-founder. Swapnil finally connected with his college roommate and their experiences lead them to start obseve.ai. The two of them started selling the idea before they had a final product. When it came to growth, they experimented with a variety of sales channels to find out which ones work and doubled down on them. Swapnil advises founders to start selling in the right market from Day 1. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the Indian startup ecosystem. Join us for a behind the scenes conversation on how we did on our 2020 predictions and the week’s A Junior VC piece, Audaciously Predicting 2021. More info on: ajuniorvc.com