

Founders Unfiltered
A Junior VC
Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Mazin and Aviral.
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Mar 21, 2021 • 16min
AJVC Unfiltered 21: Can India’s Fastest Unicorn Win the Infra.Market?
Episode on youtube: https://youtu.be/aWkBTwiLQWc
Last month, Infra.Market raised $100M to gain unicorn status, only 20 months after getting its first-ever institutional round. Become one of the fastest Indian unicorns. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can India’s Fastest Unicorn Win the Infra.Market?
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Mar 13, 2021 • 29min
Ep26: Fintech Payments ft. CashFree’s Reeju Datta
Growing up, Reeju had never thought of starting his own venture. It was after receiving an admit from ISB when he started thinking about what he really wants to do in life. Considering the huge expense of Bschool, in addition to the opportunity cost at hand. He made the decision of not doing an MBA and starting up instead. He met his co-founder Akash through a mutual friend. The two often used to bounce around business ideas with each other. Before starting up, they evaluated many different ideas and narrowed down on the problem they both had faced personally, Cash on delivery payments for online businesses. Today, Cashfree is used by over 50000 businesses with transactions worth $12 billion processed annually.
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Mar 7, 2021 • 12min
AJVC Unfiltered 20: Will BharatPe Become Bharat’s Lending Tap?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss BharatPe and how they raised $100M to reach within a touching distance of becoming a unicorn, within an incredible 3 years of founding. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Will BharatPe Become Bharat’s Lending Tap?
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Feb 27, 2021 • 34min
Ep25: Building Communities ft. 91Springboard’s Pranay Gupta
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.
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Feb 21, 2021 • 15min
AJVC Unfiltered 19: Is Mobile Premier League the Real Deal?
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?

Feb 13, 2021 • 30min
Ep24: Impact Entrepreneurship ft. The Better India’s Dhimant Parekh
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.
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Feb 7, 2021 • 22min
AJVC Unfiltered 18: Is India SaaS Ready to Soar?
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?
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Jan 30, 2021 • 38min
Ep23: Understanding the Market ft. POSist’s Ashish Tulsian
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.
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Jan 24, 2021 • 14min
AJVC Unfiltered 17: Can Zetwerk be the Unicorn Helping Manufacturers Get Work?
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?
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Jan 16, 2021 • 27min
Ep22: Finding a problem to solve ft. Growfix’s Ajinkya Kulkarni
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.