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Feb 2023
Why We Invested in Virohan
At Blume, we often build a strong thesis about a space and then actively look for startups that fit the gaps we’ve identified. But in the case of Virohan, our latest bet in ed-tech, we weren’t tracking healthcare employability, the domain they operate in, as a sub-vertical to…- Sectors
- Healthcare, EdTech
- Authors
- Sajith Pai
- Topics
- #Fundraising
Budget 2023: Agri tech, Green energy & Manufacturing gather steam
Looking at the last year Union Budget sessions, it is clear that it continues to hold the collective attention of the country, cutting across classes. This budget was about kicking off the Amrit Kaal. The new Budget took a more granular approach…- Authors
- Ashish Fafadia
Jan 2023
Fuel for future: which minerals define the growth of electric mobility?
We’re past the stage where we are discussing if EVs are indeed the future of mobility. A more intriguing question for the current times would be: which element/mineral defines the future? Roughly 50% of the cost of an EV is the cost of its battery and ~35% of the price…- Authors
- Sonisha Kukreja
Making your public appearance: a company's guide to becoming IPO-ready
The above lines were spoken by Nitish Mittersain when Arpit Agarwal, Director at Blume Ventures, asked him about his decision to go public. This was in a recent episode of X‑Unicorns, a podcast conceptualised by Blume to bring out the unique journeys of startups which have…- Authors
- Disha Sharma
The Blume Team's Outlook for 2023: The Future is Now
During the winter break, we asked the team to take a close look at what the next year can look like. How will fundraising change in 2023? Which sectors will be hot? Where should be expect change? Read Blume’s outlook on what lies ahead. As we…- Authors
- Disha Sharma
- Topics
- #Fundraising
- #ElectricVehicles
- #Investing
Dec 2022
Blume Fund IV: A pivotal point in Blume’s Journey
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…- Authors
- 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 makes…- Authors
- Disha Sharma
- Topics
- #Fundraising
- #Storytelling
- #PitchDeck
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- Topics
- #podcast
- #Storytelling
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 dissemination. In the…- Topics
- #Marketing
- #podcast
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…- Sectors
- ClimateTech, EV & Mobility
- Authors
- 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 discussion with- Authors
- Sarita Raichura
- Topics
- #BlumeDay
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 ended up with…- Authors
- 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 itself. Dunzo’s ads…- Authors
- Karthik Reddy
- Topics
- #Marketing
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…- Authors
- Disha Sharma
- Topics
- #ESOP
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…- Sectors
- ClimateTech, EV & Mobility
- Authors
- Arpit Agarwal
- Topics
- #ElectricVehicles
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 Only…- Authors
- 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…- Sectors
- ClimateTech, EV & Mobility
- Authors
- Arpit Agarwal, Disha Sharma
- Topics
- #ElectricVehicles
- #TwoWheelers
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 monitoring, to…- Topics
- #DevTools
- #portfolio
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 platform to…- Topics
- #Developertools
- #portfolio