Founders Unfiltered

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the Indian fintech ecosystem and the rapid growth of the digital ledger Khattabook. Join us for a behind the scenes peak at the A Junior VC piece “Will Khatabook Uncover Bharat’s Elusive Fortune?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Ankur is the Co-founder and CEO of Nuclei. He has founded a successful restaurant chain and was part of the founding team of Tapzo a venture-backed startup that sold to Amazon. He first learnt to think bigger when he moved to Mumbai to study engineering, well before starting his entrepreneurial journey and he kept thinking bigger at each step in his professional life. Join us as we talk to Ankur about his entrepreneurial journey and the importance of think big. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss the rise of the edTech industry and how it has bombed and rapidly evolved in India since the 2000s. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Is EdTech India’s Next Global Export?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

RainCan, now called BB Daily, started off as hyper-local grocery delivery but it really took off due to a freak incident. The milkman in his colony went away, so Abhijeet decided to offer milk delivery as an experiment. He realized that even though milk is a low margin product it was the start of a relationship with his customers. He could then sell other products to customers once they knew that RainCan would be at their doorstep every day with the milk. Today, BB Daily has over 2,500 employees serving more than 3 lakh subscribers per day! Join us as we talk to Abhijeet about how he built and scaled the company.  More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

The AJVC team gets together to discuss Postman, a SaaS used to test and develop APIs (Application Programing interface). Postman started off as a niche product built by developers for developers but as the usage of APIs exploded so did Postman’s popularity. Join us for a behind the scenes peek at the A Junior VC piece “Will Postman Deliver Tech to Build Software’s Global Bridges?” More info on: ajuniorvc.com

Varun first started playing poker in his college. After graduating, he worked in a variety of roles and continued playing poker online. As his love for poker grew he realized that there is an opportunity to create a better poker playing experience. In just 3 years, he built one of India's largest poker platforms. Join us as we talk to Varun about his journey and the importance of finding the right people to build his company. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

Sanchit started his company in 2013, right after he graduated from college. Today, Townscript is a market leader that operates in several countries helping event organizers issue over 3M tickets per year. Join us as we talk to Sanchit about his journey and how he built the Townscript marketing machine. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

Anuradha started her business as a hobby, teaching people English from Hindhi through simple animations on a Facebook page. Today, Multibhashi has over 1M+ downloads on the play store and offers a variety of service in 10+ languages. Join us as she reflects on her journey and talks about how to build for Bharat, specifically the lower-income but higher volume segment of society which is just starting to come online. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

Rohit and his company Trancelestial are using lasers to transmit data. They have already piloted a project with SK Telecom in South Korea to launch a 5G network at a fraction of the cost. Just one step on their journey to connect earth to deep space using a space laser communication network. Join us as Rohit talks about his journey, the challenges he encountered, the incentives for deep-tech founders and why this is such a huge opportunity. We conclude the episode by talking to Akshay who is launching his MVP - A fantasy stock trading game that rewards learning. Try it for free on stoquity.in and win prizes while giving him valuable feedback just by participating. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

We talk to Neerav Jain the Co-founder and CEO of CityFurnish.  His start-up journey began with simple but effective advice - talk to customers and validate assumptions. An idea that is still crucial to the company today and an integral part of their continuous pursuit to delight customers. We conclude the episode by discussing a listener's business idea and with that example, shed some light on how to implement this idea of validating assumptions in a B2B setting. More info on: ajuniorvc.com/podcast