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Blume Ventures
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Founders Speak: In conversa...
About Founders Speak: A series of conversations with our founders on the journey they’ve had so far. We recentl...
Blume Ventures
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MasterCard Ban in India: Ke...
Background India has witnessed various financial disruptions around government regulations in recent times. We have w...
Blume Ventures
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Why We Invested In Ultrahuman
Our thesis We are living through an unprecedented global health crisis, specifically a metabolic health crisis. Over ...
Blume Ventures
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Meet Blume’s latest c...
We onboarded our new Analyst team over the last few weeks here at Blume. This is Blume’s fourth Analyst cohort, with ...
Blume Ventures
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Building an engineering bra...
I attended a fascinating talk recently by Sidu Ponnappa, SVP Engineering at Gojek, on how startups can...
Blume Ventures
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Changing Trends in Indian B...
Pre-COVID, business travel was seen mostly as a perk for senior staff in corporate India. Startups rarely looked at b...
Blume Ventures
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The significance of the Zom...
I spoke to a seasoned public markets investor last weekend who asked “What’s the significance of the Zoma...
Blume Ventures
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Why We Invested In ApnaKlub
[ In video below: ApnaKlub Mini-Thesis by Ashish Fafadia and Kartikeya Shekhar ] The Opportunity Traditional wholesal...
Blume Ventures
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How to develop a future-pro...
One of the biggest questions that early-stage startup founders and first-time entrepreneurs struggle with is when to ...
Blume Ventures
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Reselling > Live-streaming
Ecommerce has traditionally been viewed through one of two lenses – horizontal ecommerce and vertical ecommerce. Hori...
Blume Ventures
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Announcing, the second edit...
In August 2020 we launched the Blume-U Velocity program — a seven week program for our early stage portfolio founders...
Blume Ventures
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Blume is hiring an Associat...
We are looking to hire an Associate – Investor Relations to help position Blume appropriately and strategically...
Blume Ventures, Reports
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Blue Collar Workforce In India
Authored by Sanchita Bhamnote and Diksha Lahoti – this report explores the evolution of the space, how the defi...
Blume Ventures, Reports
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Fintech Landscape – P...
Members of our investment team (Ashish Fafadia, Sujay Choubey, Kartikeya Shekhar) published Part 1 (of a 2-...
Blume Ventures
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Demystifying Venture Capita...
In this episode Karthik Reddy discusses the following with Jivraj Singh Sachar: (03:28) : How Indian Venture Capital ...
Blume Ventures
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Blume Day X: A Recap
We recently wrapped up our weeklong Blume Day X celebrations (10th edition of Blume Day), a virtual reinterpretation ...
Blume Day X
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Blume Day X (2021): We are ...
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, &...
Blume Ventures
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How early-stage founders sh...
( Guest Column: By Manisha Kadagathur ) How should early-stage founders, especially those at the seed / pre-Series A ...
Blume Ventures
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Blume, in close partnership...
Blume Ventures, in partnership with Avendus, launched and closed a first-of-its-kind product for Indian investors in ...
Blume Ventures
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Announcing $6.5m Series A i...
The Great Indian Dream In 2014 September, as part of his Zero to One book launch promotion campaign, Peter Thiel did...
Blume Ventures
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Exotel | The Bootstrap Cham...
Within a few weeks of each other in 2011, there were 3 different mentions of this Ex-Yahoo engineer who was building ...
Blume Ventures
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Blume Ventures adds Kunal B...
Blume has always been a deep believer in a partnership model, assisting its portfolio companies and investors –...
Blume Ventures
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Blume Ventures launches Fou...
The Fund will invest $25K to $100K outside its core investment program to deepen its engagement with more Founders.&n...
Blume Ventures
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Blume elevates Arpit Agarwa...
In February 2020, just before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, we announced the close of our third fund at $102...
BluPrint, Reports
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Hacking The Cybersecurity M...
Report by: Anirvan Chowdhury and Shubham Khetan As per GDPR, the penalties in case of a data breach can be up to €20 ...
NETFLIX | THE PLAYBOOK | Season 1 | Reviews
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The Playbook (Episode 5) – ...
Jigsaw puzzles are a good metaphor for so many things in life. As Dawn Staley articulates from her growing up with su...
BlumeU, Velocity
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Our experience of launching...
In August 2020 we launched the BlumeU Velocity program – a seven week program for our early stage portfol...
NETFLIX | THE PLAYBOOK | Season 1 | Reviews
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The Playbook (Episode 4) – ...
Reminiscing his father play classical music on the piano, Patrick Mouratoglou remarks: One piece of classical m...
NETFLIX | THE PLAYBOOK | Season 1 | Reviews
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The Playbook (Episode 3) &#...
Football! – the most accessible global sport. You can kick a stone down the road, a ball on a beach, all toward...
NETFLIX | THE PLAYBOOK | Season 1 | Reviews
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The Playbook (Episode 2) &#...
The Women’s Soccer World Cups are a summer feature and coincidentally, I’ve been in the US during the summers of 2015...
NETFLIX | THE PLAYBOOK | Season 1 | Reviews
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The Playbook (Episode 1) &#...
In Netflix’s new documentary series, The Playbook, elite sports coaches share their playbook for success, in sports a...
Blume Ventures
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Unacademy | The First of th...
Unacademy just closed a $150m Series F round led by SoftBank. September 2020 thus marks the graduation of our first p...
Blume Ventures, Reports
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Winning in India: A Microma...
Why ‘atoms’ businesses should adopt a Micromarket approach to geographic expansion – by Sujay Choub...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
At 50, he has the vigor and vitality of a man half his age. A voracious reader – he has read a book a week for ...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
As part of our ‘Building Against All Odds’ series, we invited Harsh Jain – CEO and Co-Founder of Dream11 and Dr...
Blume Ventures, Reports
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EdTech Series (Part 2): Con...
The first article in our EdTech series, Building The Blume EdTech Framework (Part 1), as well as our recently release...
Blume Ventures, Reports
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EdTech Series (Part 1): Bui...
Humans are always learning – from the time that we are born, and learn about the colors around us and pick up t...
Blume Ventures
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Our BluPrint for Covid Risk...
To help our startups understand how Covid is impacting their business, and to help them quickly get a grasp on how th...
Blume Ventures
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Davids vs Covid 7: Managing...
VP of Product Management at Zomato, an avid tweeter, and an alumnus of BITS Pilani, Rahul Ganjoo has over 15 years of...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
In sport as in entrepreneurship – apna kaam karo. They say that hope and courage to ‘never give up’ are qualiti...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
A for apple, B for butter, C for carrots, D for daal – but ‘E’ is for EMPATHY. When it comes to Ind...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
The best entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors have deep insights into their customers’ thought process and b...
Blume Ventures
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Davids vs Covid 6: Managing...
Cash is King is the writing on the wall as everybody tries to extend their runway. At Blume, we got Ambarish Raghuvan...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most unprecedented crisis of our times – It can be likened to a war and in many wa...
Blume Ventures
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Davids vs Covid 5: Managing...
During these unprecedented times, SaaS founders, CEOs and leadership teams are grappling with rising uncertainties on...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
Srinath Sridharan talks about the impact of Covid-19 on the Indian Financial Markets and Digital Finance. And caution...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
Hitesh Oberoi talks about how to build a business that outlives founders (and natural disasters). Come mid-March, COV...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against all Odds: ...
Aditya Ghosh talks about how the right leadership, culture, and planning can help founders tide over wartimes. As the...
Blume Ventures
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Building Against All Odds: ...
This is the first in a series of articles from the Blume team covering different aspects of business resilience and s...
Blume Ventures
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Davids v Covid 4: Managing ...
While 2019 was a year of reckoning for global manufacturing supply chains caused by the trade war between US and Chin...
Blume Ventures
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Davids v Covid 3: Managing ...
While the globe struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting externalities, startups remain one of the seve...
Blume Ventures
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Davids v Covid 2: Managing ...
This is the second, in a series of articles from the Blume team covering different aspects of business, in the contex...
Blume Ventures
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Davids v COVID: Becoming a ...
Over the next few months, as the world braces to eradicate the virus, startup founders will have to fight a battle fo...
Blume Ventures
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Blume announces final close...
This is the formal Press Release that we issued today announcing the final close of FundIII. Accompanying picture iss...
Blume Ventures
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The hunt for India’s deep-t...
VC investor Blume Ventures is seeding a deep-tech ecosystem in India, funding a bevy of startups. It’s nurturing comp...
