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  • Carbon Clean 1

    Fantastic Fumes and Where to Find them: Carbon Clean's attempt at a Net Zero Emissions Future

    In 2021, Google Flights launched a feature where you could see the amount of carbon emissions against the flight options. For example, an Air India flight from New Delhi to New York will result in 903kgs of carbon emissions. To offset this, you need to plant roughly 30 trees. Two round trips a year would mean 120 trees per person per year.  Now it is obvious that planting trees for every flight you…
    Sectors
    ClimateTech
    Authors
    Disha Sharma
    Published
    Mar 2023

  • ESOP's Fables: How to build a future-proof stock options framework

    Let’s consider this hypothetical situation.  You are an early-stage entrepreneur who just pieced together her founding team and are ready to roll. You offered generous ESOPs to get the best people and improve your chances of success. Cut to six months later. You are in the market for a seed funding round. However, a few interested VC funds are miffed with the fact that you didn’t…
    Published
    Mar 2023

  • Blume Day 2023: Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent

    A straight batted drive by Gavaskar, a hook in vintage Kapil style, and an on-drive-by Tendulkar. In the 80s and 90s, cricket commentators would often remark how these occasions are evidence that “form is temporary; class is permanent.” Some naysayers would call it an excuse to gloss over poor form. But one thing is certain – it is a mark of greatness that transcends the temporary…
    Authors
    Karthik Reddy
    Published
    Feb 2023
    Topics
    • #BlumeDay

  • 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 towards infrastructure spending by dividing the plan into seven parts, or the Saptarshi as the Finance Minister called it. These areas…
    Authors
    Ashish Fafadia
    Published
    Feb 2023
  • Reports


    • EdTech Landscape In India: What Changed In The Post Pandemic Years

      We launched our first EdTech report in 2020. Two years later, we take a look at the landscape again and review our findings. In this new report, we share how we envision opportunities to grow in this sector.
      Sectors
      EdTech
      Authors
      Amal Vats, Radhika Agarwal

    • Understanding The Mental Health Landscape In India

      Over the last few years, there has been a growing focus on Mental Health in India – more millennials are openly talking about their experience with therapy, more employers are providing mental health benefits, more managers are being encouraged to undergo coaching, and…
      Sectors
      Healthcare
      Authors
      Radhika Agarwal
      Topics
      • #MentalHealth

    • Dev Software Market – A Cambrian Explosion Of Startups

      Marc Andreessen’s famous 2011 essay on “Why Software is Eating the World” has been so widely cited over the last 11 years that it is now almost a cliche. But the implications and second degree impact of that vision are still playing out at organizational…
      Sectors
      SaaS
      Authors
      Swathi Dhamodaran
      Topics
      • #DevTools
  • Commentaries

    • 2014 2020

      From Escape Velocity to Power of Compounding: Here's the lowdown on the tradition of the Blume Day tee

      For Blume Day 2023, we celebrated long-term class over short-term form. Or how “form is temporary but class is permanent”. Venture capital is best exemplified by this phrase, especially in the post-pandemic era. After all, the point of venture capital is to fuel…
    • HU2 A4196

      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…
      Sectors
      Healthcare, EdTech
      Authors
      Sajith Pai
      Topics
      • #Fundraising

    • 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…
      Authors
      Sonisha Kukreja
    • The Little Things Online Shopping 1

      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
  • Podcasts


    • Naveen Tewari on the quest for a purposeful life, the beauty of creating versus competing, and building a culture of compounding trust

      In the finale episode, Sanjay Nath chats up Naveen Tewari of InMobi on building two unicorns, creating an "institution" vs an organization, and not getting fazed by feedback. Sanjay also shares how Naveen has been a major influence in his journey of co-founding Blume. Tune in…
      Episode
      Episode 9
      Authors
      Naveen Tewari, Sanjay Nath
      Published
      Dec 2022
      Reading Time
      37 minutes
    • Screenshot 2022 12 14 at 3 04 05 PM

      Manish Taneja on Purplle’s frugality principle, short-term pains vs long-term gains, and niceness as a superpower

      In this episode, Manish Taneja of Purplle tells Ashish Fafadia of Blume about the perils of moving away from your vision because "some VC told you to" and the mistakes that entrepreneurs should avoid in their journey.
      Episode
      Episode 8
      Authors
      Manish Taneja, Ashish Fafadia
      Published
      Dec 2022
      Reading Time
      39 minutes
    • Screenshot 2022 12 02 at 3 18 24 PM

      Prashant Pitti on being curious rather than cautious, finding talent in-house, and taking the hard call of postponing a carefully planned public listing

      In this episode, Karthik B. Reddy sat down with Prashant Pitti of EaseMyTrip to talk about his journey from IIT Madras and working in the US to returning to the homeland and starting up with his brothers.
      Episode
      Episode 7
      Authors
      Prashant Pitti, Karthik Reddy
      Published
      Dec 2022
      Reading Time
      45 minutes
    • Screenshot 2022 12 01 at 7 49 57 PM

      Ashwin Damera on the wisdom of failure, the best form of fundraising, and unlearning through creative destruction

      In this episode of X-Unicorns, Karthik B. Reddy of Blume Ventures sat down with Ashwin Damera of Emeritus Education about the wisdom of failure, the wrong reasons to become an entrepreneur, and the "three box approach" to build a successful business.
      Episode
      Episode 6
      Authors
      Ashwin Damera, Karthik Reddy
      Published
      Dec 2022
      Duration
      1 hour and 3 minutes
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