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Dec 2023
How Did You Get Here: Unlocking the Power of The Partner's Office in Venture Capital
Our last installment of the "How Did You Get Here" series highlights the co-author of the recently launched Omega Files by Blume Ventures and pivotal part of the Partner's Office, Adithya Santhosh. I particularly enjoyed capturing Adithya's story and his inspirations +…
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Ria Shroff Desai, Adithya Santhosh
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Breaking into VC: The Rough Guide
A question I get asked all the time, in emails or social DMs or in person sometimes, is about how to break into VC or Venture Capital. After all it is seen as a desirable, glamorous job (this isn’t strictly true), and given the few slots, intense demand, and limited public…
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Sajith Pai
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Startups can build valuable companies even without a big bang, billion-dollar public market debut
Do we have a problem in the way many startup founders think about IPOs in India? As we talk to founders, we have noticed that many of them believe that to build a highly valued company over the long run, they need to take their companies public at least at a…
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Vikram Gawande
What do GPs ask of LPs?
The LP-GP relationship is commonly thought of as uni-dimensionalVenture funds are typical platforms – servicing their LPs - providers of capital (LPs or Limited Partners - investors who invest in venture funds) and the founders/portfolio companies. LPs provide GPs (GPs -…
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Alok Mehta
Venture Capital: A Deep Apprenticeship
When I finally tire of saying something so often, I know it's time to write it and share it with the team and the world. This practice of writing or a podcast episode for me is my rendition of emphasizing a lesson I would like to spread. Blume Day T-shirts are a manifestation of…
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Karthik Reddy
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India Technology Index | November 2023
We at Blume invest in private Tech and Tech-Enabled companies riding fundamental Technology catalysts. Over the last decade, the Internet has been one such major catalyst. As companies from this cohort grew and wanted to build multi-generational companies, they decided to list…
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Vikram Gawande, Dhagash Shah
Nov 2023
Leading with Grit: Radhika Gupta on taking the right kind of risks, rebuilding from the ground up, & being an accessible leader.
“If you change me from being a founder to becoming part of another company and then back to being a founder again, I'm cool with it.”There are those who struggle to lead with empathy and ambition in tandem.And then, there’s Radhika Gupta.She is the MD and CEO of…
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Shreevar Chhotaria, Rohit Kaul
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Daniel Zarick, founder and CEO of Arrows, on building SaaS products on top of data platforms
Daniel: “On the other hand, we were confident that improving the customer-facing checklist would differentiate our product and help convert prospects into customers. So we took a bold decision: rather than just forgoing improvements to the dashboard, we…
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Infrastructure SaaS & Dev Tools, Horizontal SaaS
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Rohit Kaul
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Breaking into the SaaS Market: The $1 Million Journey
Scaling a cross-border SaaS startup from $0 to $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) is a formidable challenge, yet it remains a crucial milestone for Indian SaaS startups.
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Ravi Kaushik Rajagopal
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PMF Convo #10 – Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder of Atlan
In our conversation, Prukalpa talks about the transition from SocialCops, a profitable fast-growing services play with finite limits on scale, to Atlan, a product co with theoretically no limits on scale. Prukalpa and Varun, her cofounder, were obsessed with scale and in that…
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Sajith Pai, Prukalpa Sankar
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Building a Content-first Venture Capital fund with Rohit Kaul | How Did You Get Here
Rohit Kaul leads all things Marketing and Content and has taken up the heavy mantle of helping Blume retain our pole position when it comes to being a content-first, content-led VC fund.
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Ria Shroff Desai, Rohit Kaul
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The Venture Potential of the Electric Vehicle Sector in India
Venture capital investment in global climate tech startups is accelerating, with 83 climate tech unicorns valued at $180 billion as of January 2023. In 2022, the US invested $87 billion, China $48 billion, and India $6 billion. Blume Ventures, amid a surge in India-based VC…
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ClimateTech, EV & Mobility
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Arpit Agarwal, Venkatesh Modi
Stellapps: A Milky Way of Products creating White Revolution 2.0
Stellapps is an end-to-end dairy technology solutions company helping dairy farmers and cooperatives digitise & optimise milk production, milk procurement & coldchain management so as to maximize profits while minimizing effort.
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AgriTech, FinTech, B2B Commerce & Marketplaces
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Rohit Kaul
The sell-side of Venture Capital
This is a unique insight and not a lens that is usually applied when people think of venture capital. Most of the people whom I interact with, especially young professionals interviewing for a role with Blume, think a role at a venture firm involves analyzing, investing in, and…
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Alok Mehta
PMF Convo #9 – Konark Singhal, Founder - Mountblue, ex-Mockbank
Konark Singhal cofounded MockBank, an edtech co that provided test prep for government exams. The startup saw some initial traction and were able to raise a small preseed round, but struggled to grow and scale. Eventually, the co was acquired by a well-funded competitor, and…
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Sajith Pai, Konark Singhal
Oct 2023
Creating A Great Place To Work at a VC Fund with Ria Shroff Desai | How Did You Get Here
Today's installment in my series chronicling the stories of different roles at Blume Ventures is a special one because my colleague Rohit Kaul put me in the hot seat and gave me the chance to talk about my journey, my career decisions, defining moments and what I'm working on at…
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Ria Shroff Desai
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The Inside Scoop on "Fintechs and IPOs": Takeaways from Blume Fintech Summit
India isn't just catching up in the fintech race; it's leading the pack. With a staggering fintech adoption rate of
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Jatin Madhra
Seeing is Believing: Peyush Bansal on building with clarity, absolute customer obsession, and compounding company culture.
Peyush: “What we tell people is we are 20 years behind in eyewear as compared to apparel, shoes and every other lifestyle category.”If you have noticed, in the past few years, a dash of color and life has been infused into the eyewear market, which was once considered boring…
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Shreevar Chhotaria, Rohit Kaul
Building a sales pipeline that converts with Shruti Kapoor of Clari and Ex-Wingman
Shruti: “When you are starting up, particularly from a B2B perspective, you're essentially striving to persuade someone within a business to take a bet on you as a founder. Regardless of your product or the caliber of your tech team, there will be product failures.…
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Infrastructure SaaS & Dev Tools, Horizontal SaaS, B2B & Vertical Saas
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Rohit Kaul
Vinati Saraf Mutreja on making chemistry cool again, leading with tenacity, and creating a multi-generational organization.
If you think of a VC-investable business, the capital-intensive manufacturing industry, perhaps isn’t the first thing that pops into your mind.Vinati Organics Limited’s numbers seem quite alluring, though.Since the past 15 years, Vinati Organics has seen a ~1400X growth in…
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Shreevar Chhotaria, Vinati Saraf Mutreja, Rohit Kaul
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