

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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Oct 10, 2020 • 36min
Ep15: Product Market Fit ft. MegaExams’ Prasanth
Prasanth talks about his fifteen-year journey from learning how to code through trial and error, turning it into a profession, and then using the skills he acquired to build companies. He proudly discusses his failures and what he learned from it, as he sheds light on how he found product-market fit.
Join us as we talk to Prasanth about his incredible journey and finding product-market fit.
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Oct 4, 2020 • 16min
AJVC Unfiltered 9: Can Agritech Seed India’s New Green Revolution?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss the evolution of the agriculture industry in India. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece Can Agritech Seed India’s New Green Revolution?
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Sep 25, 2020 • 33min
Ep14: Founder market fit ft. iZooto’s Neel and Vivek
Vivek and Neel met while working on Voicetap. In 2016, they started iZooto to help any company with a domain name to engage with their visitors.
Today iZooto delivers 60Bn notifications for some of the world's largest media companies without any external funding. This focus on a single customer segment that they could serve best has been one of the biggest reasons for their success and the market share that they now hold.
Join us as we talk to Neel and Vivek about how they segment their customers and how they discovered their DNA as a company.
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Sep 20, 2020 • 12min
AJVC Unfiltered 8: Can Licious Be India's First Consumer Unicorn?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss the direct to home meat and seafood industry. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Can Licious Be India's First Consumer Unicorn?”
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Sep 12, 2020 • 48min
Ep13: The SaaS playbook ft. SaaS labs' Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav is a serial entrepreneur who has built well over a dozen different products. He learnt how to code as a child and built his product when he was still in college. Since starting SaaS labs in 2014, Gaurav has built several products catering to different themes. Each one is a self-sustaining business with some of his products like Just Call generating millions in annual recurring revenue.
Based on his experiences, Gaurav created a 20 point SaaS playbook, which he used for a new product Helpwise.io, he grew it to $100K ARR in just 4-5 months. Join us as we talk to Gaurav about his journey.
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Sep 6, 2020 • 24min
AJVC Unfiltered 7: Is India Space Tech's Dark Horse?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss Space tech and India’s role in defying the odds to become one of the world's space superpowers. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is India Space Tech's Dark Horse?”
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Aug 29, 2020 • 51min
Ep12: Creating new products ft. Razorpay's Harshil Mathur
Harshil was turned down by over a hundred banks when he started Razorpay in 2014. Instead of fretting over it, he spent the time talking to businesses and building a payment gateway to solve their problems. Their customer-centric approach made them one of India's best payment solutions. Once users trusted him to handle payments, branching out into banking services was natural.
Today 800,000 businesses rely on Razorpay for payments, bank accounts, and loans. Join us as we talk to Harshil about his journey and creating new products.
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Aug 23, 2020 • 16min
AJVC Unfiltered 6: Will Pharmeasy Win E-Pharmacy’s Intense Battle?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss pharmeasy and India’s multi-billion dollar and rapidly growing e-pharmacy industry. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Will Pharmeasy Win E-Pharmacy’s Intense Battle?
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Aug 14, 2020 • 32min
Ep11: Early days of a startup ft. Finshot’s Shrehith Karkera
Shrehith is one of the founders of Finshots.
He met his co-founders in business school and they started writing and gradually built an audience but it was not enough to pay the bills. Just when they were running out of funds, one video went viral which helped them take the company to the next level. Today, Finshots delivers one 3 min read per day to over 100,000 subscribers on India's most important financial developments.
Join us as we talk to Shrehith about his journey and the early days of starting a company.
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Aug 9, 2020 • 18min
AJVC Unfiltered 5: Is InMobi Asia’s Advertising Dark Horse?
The AJVC team gets together to discuss InMobi, India’s first unicorn and one of the pioneers of the Indian tech revolution. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is InMobi Asia’s Advertising Dark Horse?”
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