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As a team that loves to keep learning, Blume has been listening to a lot of great podcasts capturing the history of Venture firms in Silicon Valley. As VCs, our job is to forecast the future, trend-spot and pattern-match. The lessons gleaned from the mistakes and successes…
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Karthik Reddy
Nov 2022
High Pitched Assessments: The exhaustive list of what makes a good pitch deck
From the number of slides to structure of the content, here’s what you need to know A pitch deck is the first time a potential investor looks at your business. Hence, it makes sense to ensure that it hits all the right notes from the word go. What…
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Disha Sharma
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Oct 2022
Presenting Blume’s Maiden Podcast: X-Unicorns, Or The New Mutants Of Unicorns
What is a unicorn? A mythical creature, known to be proud, untameable, fiercely independent, and difficult to capture. We recently spoke about the top podcasts of the country in our first publication
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Fresh Off The Press: Presenting Blume’s Maiden Book “Narrowcast”
(nar-oh-kast,-kahst) A narrowcast or narrowcasting is the process of disseminating specific topics of information to a sharply defined audience. In addition to being quality content, podcasts play an outsized role in knowledge…
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Why We Invested In Vecmocon
We at Blume have been very bullish about the EV sector in India. Our string of investments into companies such as Yulu, Euler Motors, BatterySmart, and…
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Venkatesh Modi
Aug 2022
A Quick Guide On Building Your Startup Investment Strategy
Given that we work in the venture capital industry, every now and then, a friend/relative will call asking for advice. “Should one invest in a startup? Should I invest in a fund? What percentage of my wealth should I invest in startups?” We had a…
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Sarita Raichura
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The Growth Of Indian Family Offices’ Investment In Startups
A homegrown venture capital fund, we started in 2011 with the support and backing of Indian HNIs and Families. The venture asset class was still unknown at the time. Hence, out of every six HNIs/families we pitched to, we’d get one to commit. We finally…
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Sarita Raichura
Our Partnership With Bluecopa – Bringing The Next Generation Of Business Observability & Finance Operations For The Data-Driven Intelligent Enterprise
We, at Blume Ventures, are very excited to announce our partnership with Bluecopa – A strategic finance platform, which is ushering in collaboration, near real time data transformation & normalization from multiple data sources, into a spreadsheet interface for high…
Jun 2022
Inconvenience Is Regretted, Convenience Is Not
Dunzo pushing boundaries is not new. It began as 3000+ Whatsapp chats on Kabeer Biswas’ phone in 2015. If this forms a kick-off para in a future dunzo story, the iconic ad that put a semi-colon on the 2022 IPL Final broadcast will be a chapter unto…
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Karthik Reddy
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May 2022
How To Build An ESOP Framework That Works For Both Founders And Employees
ESOPs, a largely equitable tool of wealth creation, is also often misunderstood or used sub-optimally. The conflicts start when there is a disconnect between what the company promised and what the employee expected. Not paying attention to ESOPs at the very beginning can end…
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Disha Sharma
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Charging Towards A Solution: Why EVs Need Both Slow And Fast Charging Infra
Any discussion about EVs is incomplete without discussing how we power the vehicle. Do we swap batteries or use a charging station? The obvious but unhelpful answer is whatever gets you to from point A to point B at an optimal speed and cost. A more helpful answer emerges…
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Arpit Agarwal
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Apr 2022
Product-Market Fit: Nail It Before You Scale It
Marc Andressen formally introduced the concept of Product-Market Fit (or PMF as it is popularly referred to) to the startup ecosystem in 2005 in a post titled ‘The…
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Sajith Pai
Winning In The Two-Wheeler EV Market In India
Last few years saw over two dozen startups trying to make a mark in the e-mobility space, many of them run by fresh engineering graduates. E-mobility was a blank space ripe for disruption. Swiggy and Zomato did something similar when they organized food delivery. Yulu jumped…
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Why Blume Partnered With Zipy.Ai In Their Mission Of Making The World Less Buggy
We are very excited to lead Zipy.ai’s seed round and partner with them in their journey to build a world class customer observability platform that helps software teams debug customer code bugs 10x faster. Zipy essentially combines user sessions with frontend…
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LambdaTest’s Phenomenal Journey From An Underdog In Cross-Browser Testing To “AWS For Testers”
When we first met Asad Khan and Jay Singh, we saw two individuals who didn’t just have a great product and traction in cross-browser testing, but also had a strong vision around how to actually go about building an end-to-end test execution and test orchestration…
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Building Empowered Product Teams
The definition of a ‘product manager’ and that of a ‘product driven organization’ has really evolved over the last few years. In a knowledge share session organized by Blume Ventures, Kaushik Subramanian, product leader (previously at Facebook), tried…
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Disha Sharma
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The Road To Electric Vehicles: A Primer To Decode The Ecosystem
By Arpit Agarwal, Venkatesh Modi We have been closely following the EV space for years, especially since it gathered steam four years ago. Over time, we garnered enough takeaways to compile into a single account – the only resource you need to understand the…
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EV & Mobility
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Arpit Agarwal
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Pixxel Crosses The First Frontier In Building A Health Monitor For Earth, And The Space Odyssey Has Just About Begun
On April 1st 2022, two 24 year olds, who started their journey of building satellites at the age of 19, launched India’s first private commercial satellite through SpaceX’s Transporter 4 mission from Cape Canaveral. This is the first of their constellation of…
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How To Start Investing In The Indian Startup Story
Early this year, I got a call from a friend who wanted to know how she could start investing in startups. She was someone who invested in land a decade ago, and sold it for 3x recently. But investments in gold and real estate weren’t as appealing to her…
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Sarita Raichura
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Mar 2022
Blume Day Curtain Call: What Made Our 11th Year Bash A Hit
This year’s BlumeDay was the most celebrated event in almost two years. Don’t take our word for it. Check #BlumeDay2022 on Twitter and see the buzz for yourself. We saw over 450+ people come together for our 11th birthday celebrations. The energy was…
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Disha Sharma
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