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Growth is the most critical aspect of running a successful business. Each episode of this podcast features real-life stories of people achieving growth. Our guests also share their insights and tips for scaling your business.
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The Desi VC, hosted by Akash Bhat, is an award-winning podcast featuring conversations with top investors & founders on trends, insights, and personal/success stories in the India-US startup ecosystem. Our purpose: As an immigrant in the US with deep roots in India, Akash explores the parallels & contrasts between Indian & US VC/tech landscapes. The podcast bridges knowledge gaps, fosters cross-cultural collaboration & celebrates 'desis' making a mark in the US.
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E152: Near Bankruptcy to $250M ARR | Rohan Nayak (CEO, Pocket FM)
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1:14:31Rohan Nayak is the Co-founder & CEO of Pocket FM, a company redefining audio storytelling for the world. While we’ve recently been publishing video episodes, this one’s a throwback to pure audio. Rohan had to travel unexpectedly, but we didn’t want to miss the chance to capture his insights on building one of India's fastest-growing consumer tech c…
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E151: Leaving VC to Build an AI Startup | Brij Bhasin (Rebright VC / Snow Mountain AI)
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1:16:45Brij Bhasin is a longtime investor turned founder and the co-founder & CEO of Snow Mountain AI, a company focused on automating business processes in finance, compliance, and legal through AI. Before founding Snow Mountain, Brij was a General Partner at Rebright Partners, and earlier helped launch GSF Accelerator, one of India’s first and largest s…
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E150 - "Build Companies Not Products" | Pramod Gosavi (Blumberg Capital)
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1:24:06Pramod is a Senior Principal at Blumberg Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in leading Seed and Series A rounds. The firm is based in Tel Aviv (Israel) and San Francisco. Before joining Blumberg Capital, Pramod was a Principal at 11.2 Capital, where he focused on investing in early-stage cybersecurity, data, dev-tools, and AI…
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E149 - From Amazon Engineer to IPO: The HyreCar Story | Anshu Bansal
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1:06:23Anshu Bansal is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He co-founded Hyrecar, a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that allows anyone to rent their cars to Uber and Lyft drivers safely and reliably. In today’s episode, learn how a late-night Uber ride in 2014 sparked a groundbreaking business idea that would reshape the ride-sharing indust…
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Understand email blacklisting, itsimpact, and how to check and avoid being blacklisted to improvedeliverability.
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Learn how regular email list cleaning improves deliverability and reduces bounce rates.
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Learn actionable steps to enhance email deliverability and ensure your messages consistently reach the inbox.
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Understand the factors influencing sender reputation and tips to maintain a positive score.
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Learn how to use the Google Postmaster tool to monitor email performance
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Step-by-step guidance on auditing your email deliverability to identify and fix potential issues.
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Discover how using subdomains can improve email deliverability and help isolate different email streams.
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Learn what return path emails and mailer daemon messages mean and how to check return path in different email client
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Explore essential email authentication protocols and how they secure your emails and boost deliverability.
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Understand how email servers function, their configurations, and their role in ensuring smooth email delivery
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Understand how IP Addresses are used in email marketing
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Discover the essential metrics to track for email deliverability and how to use data to optimize your campaigns
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Explore the factors that lead to emails being marked as spam and actionable tips to ensure your messages land in the inbox.
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Learn the difference between hard and soft email bounces, their causes, and how to minimize their impact on your email campaigns.
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Understand the foundational concepts of email deliverability, including how emails reach inboxes and why deliverability matters.
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E148 - The Ultimate Founder-Led-Marketing Playbook | Aquibur Rahman (CEO, Mailmodo)
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1:11:29Aquibur Rahman is the Co-founder and CEO of Mailmodo, an interactive email marketing software that helps marketers create app-like experiences in email by adding forms, shopping cart, calendar, NPS and other widgets. It helps companies collect feedback from their users, book meetings with prospects, recover abandon carts, generate leads, all within…
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E147 - Tips for B2B Enterprise Founders | Yousuf Khan (Ridge Ventures)
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1:34:13Yousuf Khan is a Partner at Ridge Ventures, a seed and Series A stage venture fund investing in enterprise and B2B startups. With a deep understanding of startup growth and scaling challenges, Yousuf not only drives Ridge’s investment portfolio forward but also provides hands-on support to founders, offering guidance rooted in his extensive experie…
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E146 - Inside a $1.1B Deep Tech, Cross-Border Fund 🚀 | Sriram Viswanathan (Founding Managing Partner, Celesta Capital)
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1:21:06We had the privilege of hosting Sriram Viswanathan, Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital. Based in San Francisco, Celesta Capital is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm managing $1.1 billion in assets. The firm specializes in cross-border investments between India and the United States, with a focus on deep-tech. Since its inception …
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E145 - Built & Sold 2 Companies & Now Manages $350M AUM Fintech Fund | Sheel Mohnot
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1:02:07In this episode, we sit down with Sheel Mohnot, co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV), a San Francisco-based $350M AUM fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds in fintech companies globally, typically writing first checks ranging from $500K to $4M. BTV also runs The Mint Accelerator, a program providing mentorship, resources, and communi…
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After 150 audio-only episodes on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, The Desi VC is finally stepping into the world of video! The first video episode drops on January 1st. Join host Akash Bhat every fortnight as he interviews: Top investors managing billion-dollar funds Serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits Operators who’ve built some of the mo…
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E144: Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl (Founder & Managing Partner, Eternal Capital)
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58:46Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl is the Founder & Managing Partner at Eternal Capital, a 120-crore fund investing in transformative startups across technology, healthcare, and consumer sectors in India. He is the former COO of BharatPe, and a leader with extensive experience in scaling businesses and driving operational excellence across Airtel, PayTM, and Forti…
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E143: Dhirendra Mahyavanshi (Co-founder & CEO, Turtlemint)
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50:52Dhirendra Mahyavanshi is the Co-Founder of Turtlemint, an online insurance platform backed by Nexus Venture Partners, Peak XV, Jungle Ventures, GGV Capital, Blume Ventures among others. The company is on a mission to makes it easy to understand and buy insurance. Before founding this company he held leadership positions at Quikr and ICICI Lombard. …
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E142: Archana Jahagirdar (Managing Partner, Rukam Capital)
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54:24Archana Jahagirdar is the founder and managing partner of Rukam Capital, to find out. Set up in 2019, the Delhi-based venture capital firm invests in early-stage consumer products and services companies with significant growth potential. The VC has funded as many as 20+ startups, including noted brands such as Go DESi, Sleepy Owl Coffee, Burger Sin…
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E141: Anshuman Singh (Co-Founder of Scaler)
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55:46Anshuman Singh is the Co-founder of Scaler, an edtech company designed to upskill college graduates and young software engineers in advanced computer science topics. The company has raised $55M from Lightrock, Peak XV Partners and Tiger Global Management, at a valuation of $700M. Before Scaler, Anshuman had co-founded InterviewBit, a platform aim…
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E140: Sagar Kochhar (Co-founder & CEO, Eatsure, Rebel Foods)
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58:19Sagar Kochhar is the Co-founder of Rebel Foods, and CEO of Eatsure. After completing his engineering degree from NIT Kurukshetra and an MBA from SCMHRD Pune, he began as a design engineer with Larsen & Toubro, then moved to Perfetti Van Melle and Vodafone in marketing roles. At Rebel Foods, he initially joined as Sr. VP of Operations, playing a cru…
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E139: Karthik Prabhakar (Managing Partner, PeerCapital)
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1:09:16Karthik Prabhakar is the Managing Partner at PeerCapital, an early-stage investment fund in India focused on seed to Series A rounds. Karthik has been a part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005, with a wealth of experience in venture capital, product development, and marketing. Prior to PeerCapital, Karthik was the Managing Director at Chir…
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E138: Aditya Nambiar (Co-founder, Fennel AI)
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42:22Aditya Nambiar is the co-founder of Fennel, a modern feature engineering platform that enables you to author, compute, store, serve, monitor, and govern both real-time and batch ML features, backed by Foundational Capital. Before diving into entrepreneurship, Aditya built products at Google and Facebook, and is an IIT-B alumnus. . . . Episode n…
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E137: Mayuresh Raut (Managing Partner, Seafund)
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56:22Mayuresh Raut is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Seafund, investing in pre-Series A startups in India with investments in companies such as Wigzo, Inc42, Zippee, ClooTrack among others. SEA Fund’s mission is to help the next set of technical founders, with small amounts of early capital in getting to market to build efficient and scalable busi…
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E136: Swati Bhargava (Co-founder, CashKaro.com)
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1:10:22Swati Bhargava is the Co-Founder of CashKaro.com, India’s largest Cashback & Coupons site, backed by Kalaari Capital, Korea investment partners and Affle. Swati first started Pouring Pounds with her husband Rohan Bhargava in the UK in 2011. Seeing the huge opportunity in India they launched CashKaro.com in April 2013. Swati is an alumnus of the Lon…
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E135: Anish Achuthan (Co-founder & CEO, Open Financial Technologies)
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1:02:07Anish is the Co-founder and CEO of Open, a neo-banking platform which provides business banking services to SMEs and startups. With over 17 years in the fintech industry, Anish has a rich entrepreneurial background. In 2001, he co-founded his first startup, iFuturz Wireless, focusing on mobile value-added services. In 2007, he founded CashNxt, a pl…
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E134: Edul Patel (Co-founder & CEO, Mudrex)
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54:47Edul Patel is the Co-founder & CEO of Mudrex, a crypto exchange platform on a mission to democratize investing, with its primary goal being to make crypto investing easy and accessible to all. The company has raised over $22M from Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, Tribe Captial, QED Investors and Arkam Ventures. Edul brings with him over 10 yea…
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E133: Navin Honagudi (Managing Partner, Elev8 Venture Partners)
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48:32Navin Honagudi is the Managing Partner at Elev8 Venture Partners, an India-focused $200M Growth-stage fund. Elev8 focuses on Series B and C rounds of financing in hyper growth companies. He bring 18+ years of experience investing in early and growth stage technology firms and also held the positions of Co-founder and Partner at Kae Capital. . . . E…
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E132: Sanket Shah (Co-founder & CEO, invideo)
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1:03:34Sanket Shah is the Founder of invideo, an AI-powered video creation platform for creators, boasting over 25 million users worldwide. As a trusted leader in the industry, InVideo serves customers in 190 countries and has raised over $52 million from investors including Tiger Global, Peak 15, RTP Global, Titan Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures. Prior…
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Ashok is the Co-founder and CEO of IDfy, an online fraud detection and identity platform that provides background verification services to banks and financial institutions. He started his career in semi-conductors, building high-speed network processors. His MBA degree took him away from Engineering and into the world of Business Strategy. He worke…
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E130: Rajiv Srivatsa (Partner, Antler India)
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1:05:20Rajiv Srivatsa is a Partner at Antler India, one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms. Prior to Antler, he co-founded Urban Ladder, an omni-channel furniture and decor retailer started in 2012. The company raised over $100M from SAIF Partners, Kalaari, Steadview, Peak XV Partners, Trifecta Capital and Ratan Tata. In November 2020, t…
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E129: Shwetank Verma (Co-founder & Managing Partner, Leo Capital)
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52:30Shwetank Verma is the co-founder of Leo Capital, a venture capital fund investing in companies inIndiaand South East Asia. Recent investments include CoLearn (edtech), WayForward (mental health), CoverGenius (Insurtech) and IndiaGold (Digital Gold). Leo Capital is backed by institutional investorsfrom Singapore and Silicon Valley. Prior to Leo Capi…
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Prayank Swaroop is a Partner at Accel, and joined the firm in 2011. He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and SaaS investments. Some of the investments led by him are - Aavenir, Bizongo, Maverix, OnsiteGo, Securden, Slintel, Skeps, and Zetwerk. Prior to Accel, he worked at Adobe and Standard Chartered Bank in India and Singapo…
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E127: Priya Saiprasad (General Partner, Touring Capital)
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53:53Priya Saiprasad is a General Partner at Touring Capital, a fund investing in enterprise-focused AI powered global startups. She co-founded Touring after 13 years in venture capital, M&A and enterprise technology. She was most recently a Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, where she led investments into category-defining software companies including Pi…
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E126: Rohit Bansal (Co-founder, Snapdeal)
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56:03Rohit Bansal is the Co-founder Snapdeal, one of the largest online marketplaces in India. The company has raised over $1.7B from eBay, Kalaari Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital, BlackRock, Temasek Holdings and SoftBank. He is also the Co-Founder of Titan Capital, which has invested in companies such as Mamaea…
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E125: Shubham Goel (Co-founder & Co-CEO, Affinity)
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47:00Shubham Goel is the Co-foudner and Co-CEO of Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers. The company has raised over $120M in funding from Menlo Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Pear VC and Advance Venture Partners. Prior to Affinity, Shubham completed his BS in Computer Science at Stanford University. . . . Episode notes: What mad…
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Learn how to set goals and measure effectiveness of different types of sequences. Identify the differences between micro-goals to macro goals, how to track conversions and more in this short tutorial by Elizabeth Jacobi, Founder, MochaBear Marketing
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E124: Sumeet Mehta (Co-founder & CEO, LEAD)
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44:35Sumeet Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of LEAD, an edtech company helping digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families. Before co-founding LEAD, Sumeet was Chief Executive Officer at Zee Learn (2007-2012). He transformed the institution from a pre-school franchise company t…
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Tune into to learn how Foundit, Musafir and BQ Prime experimented with interactive emails and achieved remarkable results
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Discover ideas for your interactive email campaign with an in-depth walkthrough of interactive email use-cases from the email experts at Mailmodo
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Maximize user engagement with interactive demos with Nalin Senthamil, CEO @Storylane, as he uncovers SaaS growth secrets. Learn to captivate your audience, accelerate sales, and optimize for unstoppable growth
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Unleash ABM's power for explosive growth! Join our Growth Chat with guest speaker Andrei Zinkevich, who generated $300k from an ABM pilot campaign. Learn key strategies to target high-value accounts, craft personalized messaging, and align sales and marketing for unparalleled success
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