It all started in 2005. More than 15 years ago.
In a boardroom with around 20–25 founders, we were discussing the vision of what India’s software industry could become. Suddenly, an elderly gentleman stood up and started questioning me and others at the table. His argument was simple: How do…
I’m delighted to announce that I have joined Together Fund, a new early-stage venture fund led by two of India’s most respected founders — Girish Mathrubootham of Freshworks and Manav Garg of Eka. Also on board is Shubham Gupta, one of the most founder-friendly investors in our ecosystem.
Looking back…
Over the last two decades, I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing the emergence, evolution, and excellence of India’s technology ecosystem from close quarters, watching it evolve from a pure IT services provider into a product nation, making the world sit up and take notice.
Intro: Writing to a VC is intimidating, especially for first-time founders. Let’s talk a bit about the art and science of crafting the perfect pitch.
I am going to ask you to imagine standing in a large crowded room. It’s noisy. People talking over one another. But all of them…
We got talking in Sydney, sometime in 2006. The conversation was why many companies are not building software products from India. This, after a busy day attending the CeBIT show where I was a part of the Ganesh Natarajan-led delegation. Ganesh as you know is the legendary Ex-Chairman of Zensar…
What I learnt after almost 4 years of working at India’s most successful VC firm
Today is my last working day at Accel in India.
If that seems like an inappropriate way to start a post about a VC fund, please bear with me!
Nearly four years back, I joined Accel as a Community Evangelist.
It represented a leap of faith on both sides. For…
#Community Building is something that I’ve been doing for the past 18 years. I wasn’t able to gauge it’s true potential initially, but my journey led to a series of invaluable learnings. Posted it as a twitter thread
Happy to share them…
It’s that time of the year again when the entire volunteer community starts meeting on a regular basis. After waiting and debating for the last few months, we are finally pleased to announce the OnAir version of the annual edition of the SaaSBOOMi conference.
Some of you might be aware…
This was something that I had written in 2012 when I was joining One97/Paytm
Have you observed a Banyan tree closely? As a fig, it starts its life rather small but with time, it branches out into areas which you’d normally think was inaccessible. If an analogy be drawn —…
