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    • 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
      HealthTech
      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

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      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 step…
      Authors
      Disha Sharma
      Topics
      • #Fundraising
      • #ElectricVehicles
      • #Investing
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      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
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      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…
      Authors
      Disha Sharma
      Topics
      • #Fundraising
      • #Storytelling
      • #PitchDeck
  • 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
      Sanjay Nath
      Published
      Dec 2022
      Reading Time
      37 minutes
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      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
      Ashish Fafadia
      Published
      Dec 2022
      Reading Time
      39 minutes
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      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
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      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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