Founders Unfiltered

Founders Unfiltered Ep-55:   Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.  Join us as we talk to Prashant Pitti, the Co-Founder of EaseMyTrip about their story.   About Prashant Pitti: Prashant Pitti is the co-founder of EaseMyTrip. After graduating from IIT Madras, he worked at Capital One as a business analyst and later as an assistant vice president in the Risk Department of HSBC, Chicago. He also served as CEO and founder of Profoundly & NearGroup, which is a social/dating app.   About EaseMyTrip: In 2008, Nishant Pitti, Rikant Pitti, and Prashant Pitti founded an Indian online travel company called EasyMyTrip. The company, based in New Delhi, offers hotel bookings, air tickets, travel packages, bus bookings, and white-label services. With overseas offices in Singapore, Dubai, Maldives, and Bangkok, EaseMyTrip can help you plan your trip. EaseMyTrip is one of the world's few consumer startups that bootstrapped its way to an IPO and later became a unicorn. Without any outside financial infusion, EMT has grown to become the second-largest and has been profitable for the past 13 years. EMT is also the most rapidly expanding travel company. From FY16 to FY20, EMT grew at a CAGR of 47 percent. EMT has grown through word of mouth thanks to its no-convenience-fees philosophy.

Last fortnight, Open Financial Technologies became India’s 100th unicorn after raising $50M in its Series D funding round.     Read the complete article here - https://ajuniorvc.com/open-100-unicorn-fintech-india-startup-case-study-niyo-bank-neobank/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/

Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Prabhkiran Singh, the Co-Founder of Bewakoof about their story. For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/ About Prabhkiran Singh: Prabhkiran Singh is the Founder and CEO of Bewakoof.com, India's leading D2C fashion brand. After graduating from IIT Bombay in 2011, he started Bewakoof.com in April 2012. In college, he also started a lassi outlet chain called Khadke GLASSI, which offered fresh and flavoured lassi. This venture was even featured by The Times of India and the National News Channel News 24.   About Bewakoof.com: Founded in 2012, Bewakoof is a lifestyle fashion brand that makes creative, distinctive fashion for the trendy, contemporary Indian. Bewakoof was created on the principle of creating impact through innovation, honesty and thoughtfulness.

Last fortnight, Indian upstart Hasura enabled GraphQL hot on the heels of becoming India’s newest DevOps unicorn For more follow the link - https://ajuniorvc.com/hasura-unicorn-india-startups-saas-developer-tools-devops-postman/

Last fortnight, Parle launched a campaign with RRR stars Ram Charan and Alia Bhatt, a first for the brand with the pairing as it targeted reaching 20,000 Cr of sales For more details visit: https://ajuniorvc.com/parle-bisleri-case-study-history-brands-positioning/ 

About AJVC: A Junior VC was started in 2018 with the belief that there is whitespace on conversations by venture capitalists in the entrepreneurial and startup ecosystem in India.   AJVC has 4 offerings - Startup Stories, Founders' Unfiltered Podcast, the Slack community, and Startup Concepts.   For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/

In May 2018, Walmart announced that it would pay $16 billion for 77% of Flipkart. Sachin decided to sell his 5.5% stake in the company he founded for Rs 7,650 crore. Three years later, he founded Navi with a vision to build a financial services behemoth over the next two decades. The vision to build Flipkart into a global behemoth had been tantalizingly close but snatched. And with Navi, the hunger to outdo reigned dominant. The plan was to create a $100 Bn company with Navi. From the beginning, the company focused on acquisitions to procure a universal banking license and meet the stringent criteria set by RBI and Sebi for a banking license.  Navi is already into Asset Management, Insurance, and Lending. The company is now looking to expand its horizon and wishes to do an IPO and expand its lending footprint.  Sachin Bansal is unlikely to make a mistake again, diluting its stake early on, and he is here for a long play. But will Navi achieve the $100Bn dream? Last fortnight Navi announced a 4,000 Cr IPO which would be one of India's biggest. Link to full article here: https://ajuniorvc.com/navi-unicorn-sachin-bansal-case-study-indian-tech-startup-ipo-fintech/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/

Join us as we talk to Aniket Deb, the Co-Founder of Bizongo about their story.   About Aniket Deb: He is the Co-Founder and COO at Bizongo, a full stack supply chain enablement platform for customised goods. He graduated from IIT Bombay in 2013 and founded Bizongo in 2015. While working for Housing.com, Opera Solutions, EY and Biocon prior to establishing his own company, he gained extensive experience.     About Bizongo: Bizongo is a full stack supply chain enablement platform for customised goods. The company today focuses upon packaging, textiles, apparels & other contract manufacturing goods as its product portfolio and has a network of over 1500 curated manufacturers across these categories. Through its proprietary digital platforms, such as Procure Live, Partner Hub, and Artwork Flow it is offering Digital Vendor Management, Supply Chain Automation & Supply Chain Financing as key services to its enterprise customers. Today, it services more than 120 enterprise customers in fashion & lifestyle, pharmaceuticals, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, home & personal care and e-commerce.

Last fortnight, Pune based Elastic Run crossed 1,000 Cr of revenue as it also raised $300M to build yet another Indian unicorn.   Link to the article: https://ajuniorvc.com/elasticrun-ecommerce-unicorn-rural-logistics-case-study-indian-startup-tech/ AJVC: https://ajuniorvc.com/

Founders Unfiltered Ep-51:  Brought to you by the Founders Unfiltered podcast by A Junior VC - Unscripted conversations with Indian founders about their story and the process of building a company. Hosted by Aviral and Mazin.   Join us as we talk to Harsh Pokharna, the Co-Founder & CEO of OkCredit about their story.   For more visit - https://ajuniorvc.com/podcast/