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A male founder today conveniently assumed I was my peer’s admin (because I was female?🤔) asking me to “share his calendar so that those two could have a meeting”
Can’t even say this is a first🤦♀️
Unsolicited tip to all founders pitching - sexism isn’t a good foot to start on :)
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The worst part about running on 2 hours of sleep in your mid/late 20s is suddenly remembering how you used to be a ball of energy after pulling all nighters in college...
*sips 7th cup of coffee of the day*
Am I old now?😬
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EdTech Thread👇
On
@Blumeventures
' EdTech Thesis & Market sizing report that
@sajithpai
& I put together
How we view the space, market size, opportunity areas & seed stage startups to watch
Report →
How we devd the framework →
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Only in Karnataka, while buying a mixer grinder:
“Ma’am, this mixer comes with three jars,
- dosa batter jar
- coconut chutney jar
- sambar powder jar”
😂🥥
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Only 2% of CEOs in 🇮🇳are female. Only 4% of unicorn startups in the 🌎are led by ♀️founders
Wanting to help change this grim reality,
@BlumeVentures
is launching Lead Tribe - a learning & networking program for early stage female founders
Thread below👇
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Decided to spend a part of my break immersing myself in the fitness & recovery scene in SF + LA and honestly mind-blown by what's happening here!🤯👇
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Beautiful news to wake up to :)
Thank you
@ForbesAsia
🙏 Truly thrilling to see my name next to folks I have always looked up to.
Special thanks to my 10/10 crew at
@BlumeVentures
for being the most amazing set of people to work with & learn from over the last few years!🚀
Just launched: Meet Asia's Forbes 30 Under 30, class of 2023
#ForbesU30Asia
#ForbesUnder30
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@neharedy
My mom tried explaining to my grand dad: “VCs give entrepreneurs money to grow their companies and earn a $$ return later”
My grand dad at a family event the week after, when asked what I do: “she sells credit cards…”
👀🙃
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In 2000 - Baker & Fluhr started Stubhub - a ticketing platform for events in the US
2006 - Baker exits after a fallout to start Viagogo - a competitor in the UK
2007 - Fluhr sells Stubhub for $310M to eBay
Nov ’19 - Baker’s Viagogo buys Stubhub for $4B (13x of what eBay paid)
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Equinox (a US based luxury gym chain) launched a ~$40k/yr personalized health membership a few days back that’s been the talk of town (mostly for its bizarre price point).
But price / demand aside, here are a few things that stood out to me from the announcement👇
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Improving Mental Health has become one of the most talked about needs over the last 5 years, making therapy, self-help apps, group support, alt therapy big opportunity areas.
This
#MentalHealthDay
,
@BlumeVentures
looked at what opportunities this market holds for startups👇
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As most of us cheer about getting our vaccine slots, 2 gentle reminders:
1️⃣ Pls also book slots/ pay for vaccine jabs for your house help/ those in need around you
2️⃣ If you can donate plasma then do it before your 1st jab: You need a ~28 day gap between your vaccine & donating
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In unprecedented & grim times like these, it is great to see people come forward to take action & proactively help
Please please consider contributing (before Monday!) to this drive to raise $$ to procure O2 concentrators to help increase India’s supply
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Clear sign of being overexcited about the Indian startup scene - Just 3 months after moving back to India, I was on the phone with a friend in the Bay Area who was trying to order urgent meds - my instinctive response: “Why can’t you just Dunzo it?”
@DunzoIt
Oops🤷♀️🇮🇳
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Cannot stress this enough! Please pay your helpers well, make sure they have everything they need. Tip any blue collar workers you see generously. If this pandemic is hard on you, it’s much much harder on them. Be kind 🙏🏼
Swiggy, Zomato both have tipping options.
Tip, and then tip more.
Hot weather, risky work. 🙏🙏
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I've been obsessing over referral programs in startups recently👀
Q for fellow product nerds: What's the best referral program you've seen & why?
+ What have been your learnings from experimenting with referral programs?
Visualising the "referral likelihood index" like this👇
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As Twitter last week became the 1st co to announce permanent remote work, several 1st/2nd order effects were assessed (SF real estate $, 🚗traffic, rental $ in Tier2 cities, etc). Now as Square, Facebook, Shopify follow suit, it would be interesting to see other effects👇
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My colleagues
@sajithpai
@amal_vats
& I are working on
@BlumeVentures
' '22 edtech thesis.
Here's how we see the last 2 years in edtech👇
Curious to hear: What have been the biggest challenges edtech founders /teachers / growth leads faced last 2 yrs? Tell us below!
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As a part of our Velocity program at
@BlumeVentures
, we invited
@ponnappa
at
@gojektech
for a session on 'Building a Tech Org'
Thread below on our learnings on hiring, internal processes, & recommended reads👇
#BlumeVelocity
@DeepikaDakuda
@RaoMaterial
@sajithpai
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Goosebumps 👏🏼👏🏼
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Day 8 of WFH and after ~50
@zoom_us
calls with iffy bandwidth - Saw my dad standing still in front of me for a minute and thought, “Oh god the screen is frozen again🤦♀️”
😵😵
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As founders, investors, & employees fear what looks like inevitable economic doom,
@BlumeVentures
puts together the *Building Against All Odds Series* (keeping with our spirit of eternal optimism💪). Below are key takeaways from our insightful session with
@iamadityaghosh
👇
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As a part of our
#BlumeVelocity
program at
@BlumeVentures
,
@BKartRed
took a session for the founders on Fundraising!💰
Looong thread below on our takeaways on preemptive rounds, vision selling, round structures, & managing investors👇
@DeepikaDakuda
@saritaraichu
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PSA: If you're flying India➡️USA, do NOT book
@AmericanAir
or
@British_Airways
. They're not allowed to carry Indian passengers beyond UK but are selling tickets for this route & not informing passengers.
@AmericanAir
- least you can do now is pick up your customer care number...
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Edtech Thread👇
In Part 2 of
@BlumeVentures
' Edtech series, we deep dive into the ‘Continuous Learning’ sector. This includes any learning activity after formal education (school, college, & testprep) is complete.
Article by
@sajithpai
& me here:
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EdTech Thread👇
On
@Blumeventures
' EdTech Thesis & Market sizing report that
@sajithpai
& I put together
How we view the space, market size, opportunity areas & seed stage startups to watch
Report →
How we devd the framework →
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You know you’re old when your first thought at a nice sunny afternoon is
“I should do some laundry, the clothes will dry quickly” 🤦♀️😬☀️
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After months of ideating, brainstorming, learning, designing, going back to the drawing board, and redesigning -- Finally ready to launch Cohort 1 of
@BlumeVentures
' Lead Tribe tomorrow 🚀
As we welcome the first cohort of
#LeadTribe
tomo - excited to announce that
@Sairee
will be kicking off the learning & mentoring sessions by walking founders through her personal experiences, the power of community, and how to make a dent in the playing field.
#WomenWhoLead
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“Blume has a weighty exposure to deep-tech in the country and is helping seed a startup ecosystem in its quest for India’s first deep-tech unicorn” - in
@ETPrime_com
So proud to be a part of the
@BlumeVentures
fam🎉
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First edition of
#BluSwan
at
#BlumeDay2020
with 500+ meetings between 53 portfolio companies and 80+ investors. Looks like the all day long planning sessions and sleepless nights were worth it👏🏼
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As an EdTech VC, I keep getting asked "what is the future of EdTech in India?" But the context & macro-market in which the Q is asked has changed widely from '21 to '22.
@amal_vats
& I decided to document what we see as the future of EdTech in
@BlumeVentures
' 2nd EdTech report👇
EdTech in 2021-22 went from an unprecedented high to a massive push into becoming more sustainable. In that context, and as we roll into 2023,
@radhika_agar
and I are excited to share with you
@BlumeVentures
' 2nd EdTech report --> , where we cover...
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Fun fact of the day - Newton discovered gravity while in quarantine (during the Great Plague of London in 1665-66). And somehow the only thing I have discovered in the last 3 weeks is that spacebar can temporarily unmute your
@zoom_us
microphone🤔
Need to up my game🤷♀️
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It's happeninggggggg🔥
I'm mind blown by the quality of founders and applications we're getting this year. All set to kickstart the best ever cohort of
#LeadTribe
3 ;)
Are you ready to join the tribe? Apply now!
@BlumeVentures
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Once in a while, you meet a team that leaves you speechless - in awe & more excited than ever to be a part of their journey.
That was
@STAGEdotin
for me. Thrilled to be on this🚀ride with
@vinaykrsinghal
@shashank_WF
@parveenksinghal
🇮🇳💪
@BlumeVentures
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Thrilled to see the incredible response we have been getting from founders and the larger ecosystem 🙏🏼🙌🏼
Sharing below a sneak peak into our curriculum for the 10 weeks from mid Jan-Mar’21💡
If you haven’t already, apply now!! Applications close December 12 ⏰
*Application Alert*
We are extending the
#LeadTribe
application deadline from today (Dec 5) to next Sat (Dec 12)
Pls find a sneak peek of the curriculum in the image 👇
Apply now: or reach out to
@radhika_agar
/
@jiteshluthra
if you have any Qs.
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@trdessai
So many!
@Zariinjewelry
💍
Alaya by
@stage3social
👗
@BlueTokaiCoffee
☕️
@ontherunin
🥜
SamosaParty (
@DikshaPande3
)🥟
Scoopski (
@tibrewal_vedika
)🍪
@brownsaltbakery
🍫
@MonsoonHarvest
🥣
@nuawoman
🙋♀️
@ForestEssential
🌱
Fun fact - all of the above just happen to be women led💁♀️ :)
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Excited to witness the paradigm shift in mobility and hoping that this will eventually minimize today’s greatest urban transport problems - emissions, congestion, traffic, and accidents. Go
@YuluBike
👏🏼🚲
@BlumeVentures
India's electric bike rental startup Yulu inks strategic partnership with Bajaj Auto, raises $8M via
@techcrunch
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It has been a privilege to be surrounded by grit and ambition for over 3 years, and be a small part of this journey from $20m in ‘11 to over $250m in ‘22💪🏼
Kudos to team
@BlumeVentures
and to all the founders who helped us get here.
Up & Up🚀
We're thrilled to share that we just closed Fund IV at $250M, our biggest fund yet!
Thanks to all of you who have been with us since 2011 when we started out at just $20M. Can't wait for what's next as we continue supporting founders and their ambitions 🚀
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The
@asugsvsummit
'20 seed round finalists exemplify several new *EdTech themes* emerging globally. While many of these aren't big in India yet, it would be exciting to see some of these be winners in India in the future. Have listed out what I found most interesting below👇
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As a part of our
#BlumeVelocity
program at
@BlumeVentures
, we invited
@AnantVGoel
at
@HelloMilkbasket
for a session on 'Hiring'.
Thread below on our learnings on early stage hiring, compensation, balancing generalists vs specialists, & more!👇
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From my conversations w/ ~40 female founders in '20, when we thought of Lead Tribe, I remember several issues raised:
- Difficulty in fundraising/hiring
- Biases among employees/vendors
- Juggling home vs business
& more
One common theme: NOBODY to share these issues with!
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Being a founder is hard enough. Being a female founder is 2x as hard.
How often have you needed a friend who relates, listens, inspires, but not found one? How many times have you had a question about company building, but nobody to go to?
Relatable? Read on⬇️
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Super excited to work with a new set of incredible ♀️founders in the next edition of Lead Tribe 2!
If you're an early stage female founder looking for a strong network x learning x founder community, then watch this space for more on Lead Tribe 2👇
@Lead_Tribe
@BlumeVentures
Happy New Year from us to you! Looking forward to sharing stories from inspiring female operators & investors this year & celebrating their stories & success🚀
Thrilled to start the year by announcing👇
Lead Tribe 2 applications will open this month! Watch this space for more📢
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Was just beginning to get over the FB +
@GIPHY
deal when FB announced an ad revenue share for
@instagram
TV ads😮- with the same 55% (paid to creators) as
@YouTube
. Likely to kick off (or rather, increase?) a social media war b/w the 2 giants? Several Qs come to mind👇 1/n
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Realizing that I need a bit of a 'reboot' to recover from the week before I jump into Monday mornings (to avoid being a zombie🧟♀️).
Looking for advice: How are you recovering from work & exercise to get back into things at full speed and perform better both at work and the gym?💪
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Thank you, Sajith!
You have played a pivotal role in shaping my skills, ambition, and journey over the last few years. Forever grateful for all of it :) 🙏🔥👊🚀
Lists are what they are, & yes yes many deserving names always get missed out, but with that caveat, this Forbes 30u30 Asia was special.
Excited to have fellow
@BlumeVentures
colleague
@radhika_agar
make the list along with our founders
@parveenksinghal
of STAGE and
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The opportunities, realities, & contradictions that shape & explain India. Your perfect weekend read & intro to the Indian ecosystem is here!
Kudos to our Indian Mary Meeker
@sajithpai
&
@amal_vats
for pulling off this insightful masterpiece👏🏼
@BlumeVentures
Excited to release the 1st Indus Valley Annual Report to the world.
Indus Valley = our moniker for India's startup ecosystem.
The 1st issue gives us a chance to take stock of its rise and evolution, take a look back at 2021 & finally look ahead to what is coming.
@amal_vats
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[3/n] Love how fitness/recovery is such a social experience in SF!
☑️Spent Sunday at a 'fitness fest' by LuxeFit
☑️Met some incredible academics at a Longevity Mixer
☑️Saw a new side of SF at some running mixers & at yoga by the pier
☑️Tried floatation therapy with old friends💯
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Rethinking my health & fitness resolutions in H2 of the year😅💪🏼
What are some of the best fitness products / wellness services / health goals you have tried recently? (Ultrahuman ring already on my list!)
What accountability / scheduling hacks have been working best for you?
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As a Delhiite, samosas to me are sacred♥️ So when
@DikshaPande3
promised to bring the best ever samosas to the LeadTribe party in Bangalore... I was a tad skeptical :P
6 samosas later (oops) can confirm that these "serial number" samosas are indeed 11/10
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15/ A public & ever-evolving copy of our thesis & market sizing is here:
Over the next few weeks we will be writing on each of the opportunity areas we mentioned.
@sajithpai
& I look fwd to hearing your thoughts/questions on
@BlumeVentures
' thesis!
Fin.
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⬆️6x in 6 months & creating a homegrown content industry in local dialects💪🏼
Incredible story of grit & passion:
@vinaykrsinghal
@parveenksinghal
@shashank_WF
@BlumeVentures
is thrilled to partner with this phenomenal team
@STAGEdotin
as they build Netflix for Bhaarat🚀🇮🇳
We have crossed 60,000 paying subscribers on
@STAGEdotin
- grew 6x in 6 months and adding 1000+ new subscribers daily - all from Haryana alone.
Here is our story 🧵
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Bittersweet moment: The last session of
#LeadTribe
cohort 1 on ‘Wartime & Surviving Founders’ by
@AshishFafadia
after ~3 months of spending time with these incredible founders!
More takeaways, stories, sneak peaks to come soon, but here is a glimpse into this kickass tribe🚀
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🚀🚀🚀
.
@ClassplusApps
has raised $65 million in Series C round led by Tiger Global,
@gsvventures
. Blume also participated in the round.
“We are on a mission to ensure that every educator can go online and connect with their students" said
@Mukul0591
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Fascinating learning from
@rahulchandra77
- “a company needs to have a near death experience to be successful”. Wonder what other professions/endeavors this applies to🤔 Really excited to finish reading The Moonshot Game!
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Would be interesting to see what happens to Stubhub next - given that eBay’s other interesting spin-off PayPal grew from $1.5B when eBay bought it (‘02) to its current market cap of $122B (81x) and is now 4x the size of eBay itself ($28B)💰
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Increasing digitization, growing student population, globalization, higher competition, upskilling, and unbundling are just a few of the trends redefining education. Here are the key insights from the Virtual EdTech Summit put together by
@GSVlabs
@asugsvsummit
👇
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Thank you
@showmannan
& team
@PillowFund
for this adorable merch!😍
Super excited to get it and even more excited to try
@PillowFund
💸💸
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My favourite time of the year is here! Time to rewrite the statistics & build a powerful tribe of rockstar founders.
Are you a "female" founder building the next world shaping biz? Are you looking for fellow movers & shakers who can become 4am friends & mentors? JOIN THE TRIBE👇
Two years ago, we at
@BlumeVentures
launched LeadTribe - a tribe for rockstar women founders to build amazing institutions at the back of a super-charged network. We’re thrilled to be launching Cohort III this year!
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"Think of user motivations as rivers, and what you build as dams. Good founders build their dams on big rivers. The best founders build their dams on the source of the water" -
@kunalb11
What an incredible
@Lead_Tribe
session with one of the deepest thinkers in the ecosystem👇
Arguably the most interesting thinker in the ecosystem today,
@kunalb11
spoke to the
#LeadTribe
cohort about identifying the right problem to solve, scaling, hiring, & most importantly, self-reflecting as a founder
Here are 3 learnings from a super insightful Saturday morning👇
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Personally verified at 12:40am👇✅
Sant Nirankari Covid Center
Contact Person: Rahul Mogha - 9625565752
Beds are available with oxygen concentrators
ICU / Ventilator support NOT available
#Delhi
#BedsAvailability
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Keen to help female founders build strong networks & gain access to applicable learnings from seasoned founders, Blume Ventures is launching 'Lead Tribe'. A virtual cohortized ~10 week program starting Jan'21 for early stage female founders to achieve their business goals🚀
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Female founders also battle unfair perceptions from the external world - from fundraising, to managing teams (especially when managing employees who may not be used to taking orders from
#bosswomen
), to hiring, to deal-making.
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Most heartwarming thing I saw today - two bedridden patients being brought by caretakers on wheelchairs to clap with thalis, and 50 odd neighbors from the 15 houses around mine waving and beaming at each other while clapping. More unity than during a India vs Pak 🏏 match?
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Sharing one of my happiest experiences:
Seeing LeadTribe at
@BlumeVentures
grow from a scrappy little experiment in '20 to a full fledged program in '23 w/ 3 cohorts, ~100 incredible founders, ~40 inspiring mentors & an enviable tribe that's driven to build moonshot companies👇
Introducing this year's fierce cohort of Lead Tribe, our epic boot camp for female founders. 💪🚀
Getting through the gruelling application process was just the beginning. The two-day camp united fearless founders from across the nation in an unforgettable experience. ✨🌟
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Find our full report here:
We're always looking for feedback to sharpen our view. If you are building something that aligns with our view, or have data to help us change our thought process, please reach out!
@BlumeVentures
@arpiit
@BKartRed
FIN🙌
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Such honesty, candor, and vulnerability. Such an incredible session. Such a classy CEO.
@Lead_Tribe
@BlumeVentures
@kabeersays
There's nothing more refreshing to early stage founders than a candid & transparent founder sharing their journey.
Last week at
#LeadTribe
,
@kabeersays
of
@DunzoIt
spoke about his highs & lows, good decisions & bad, in an inspiring session moderated by
@Vipanchi_Handa
👇
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The program will help selected founders:
- Learn how successful founders have tackled their biz challenges💡
- Create a 'tribe' of fellow founders to exchange ideas, insights, support🤝
If you're eligible /know a rockstar founder who is, then APPLY NOW!
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Very few speakers have the ability to be insightful in every single thing they say. Saw my watch at what I thought was only the 10 minute mark of the session & realized it had been 45 min already!
Thank you
@ChapmanLizzie
for an amazing start to
@Lead_Tribe
2💪
@BlumeVentures
We kickstarted our 2nd Lead Tribe cohort in the best possible way: a Thursday evening chat with
@ChapmanLizzie
on hiring, decision making, founder learning & more.
To spread the
#LeadTribe
❤️we’ll be sharing 3 learnings from each LT session👇
@BlumeVentures
@ZestMoney
@RidhiKD
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Thanks
@leapdotclub
for putting this together and for including me :)
Some truly incredible women on this list💪🏼👏🏼
women are leading the way in venture capital and opening many doors for other women to follow.
here are 10 women in vc on , who are changing the status quo, one investment at a time 💰
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Day 2 of
#BlumeDayX
started with a panel discussion on the Indian Edtech Landscape - 'Perspectives from a Global & Growth VC'
With
@deborahquazzo
of
@gsvventures
&
@shan_rastogi
of
@generalatlantic
; moderated by our very own
@sajithpai
of
@BlumeVentures
Thread below👇
Sooper excited to moderate today’s
#BlumeDayX
chat - on edtech w
@deborahquazzo
+ Shantanu Rastogi
@shan_rastogi
#BlumeDayX
is hosted in celebration of
#10YearsOfBlume
!
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HRtech has grown into a true driver of business - focusing on attracting, leveraging, retaining the best talent.
@llnachull
and I have been studying the space, possible opportunities, and the building blocks of winning companies. Here is our public thesis on the space!👇
Don't miss out on the complete report! Click here:
Feedback, thoughts, reviews - we welcome it all!
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Thanks
@Julian
!
Excited to meet more inspiring founders building rockstar companies🚀🇮🇳
More about
@BlumeVentures
' investing philosophy here:
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Lack of strong networks emerged as a big reason. It sometimes can be harder for female founders to build strong networks because of fewer college/MBA networks, rigid social structures, biased peer perceptions
But a lot of learning, hiring, collaborating comes from networks!
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@kumarharsha2212
Check out
@BlumeVentures
’
#LeadTribe
cohort! 26 kickass early stage founders:
@aishwarya_08
@jniharika03
@chanachor
@SethiShakun
@Vipanchi_Handa
@harsha_sachdeva
@pooja_midha
@ykaruturi57
@ruchikamehta_
@shivanginadkarn
@shwedosh
@tibrewal_vedika
@DikshaPande3
@kaushalgee
+more!
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Thanks for having me
@YourStoryCo
:) Excited to be a part of the
#InvestorSummit2021
and to hear the other incredible panels as well.
We are delighted to share that
@radhika_agar
, who is part of
@BlumeVentures
' investment team, is joining us at
#InvestorSummit2021
to talk about 'offbeat yet high-value sectors for investment' and how startups from this space can get investor attention.
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Hands down one of the most inspiring founders around - short of having more hours to her day than the rest of us mortals, don't know how she does it!
Excited to have
@runophilia
of
@trySUGAR
taking a session on Hiring & Culture for
#LeadTribe
w
@Sanam_rawal
of
@_PassionConnect
In our next session, we have
@runophilia
(Co-founder,
@trySUGAR
) talk to the
#LeadTribe
cohort on why scaling a team isn't a one-size-fits-all process, how to define the nature of your team's growth, and how to build a strong company culture.
cc:
@Sanam_rawal
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[2/n] Almost as common as gyms here are 'recovery centers' (sauna, cryotherapy, red light, IVs, cold plunges). They cater to both athletes & others that "just like staying healthy".
Tried a few to experience it for myself - loved them!😍
What's the India equivalent of these?
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A morning well spent discussing GTM, Sales, Hiring from first principles, especially for B2B startups with
@LadyAshBorg
& the
@Lead_Tribe
cohort!
Few takeaways from the session below👇
The
#LeadTribe
cohort spent a Saturday morning with our DeepTech hero
@LadyAshBorg
of
@MadStreetDen
on all things GTM, Sales, & Hiring;
Moderated by our very own
@swathidhamo
of
@BlumeVentures
!
Here are the 3 big takeaways from our session👇
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4/ (Last) This one is my favourite. People proactive about their health now view themselves as athletes.
Not "sports athletes" - but "tech/business athletes" (the term I recently heard for this and loved was "cognitive athlete"😅).
They view their body (and mind) as a high
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Starting this Monday (March 22), in celebration of
#10YearsOfBlume
- we have a variety of virtual formats lined up as part of
#BlumeDayX
(10th edition of Blume Day)
To kickstart - a technocrat + builder joins a polymath + futurist to discuss the next decade of Indian tech.
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Personally verified non O2 bed in Bangalore as of 12:40pm✅👇
Isolation Center RM Nagar
Hospital Bed available for patients with SPOC > 90
No O2 beds (since they don't have O2 supply right now)
Contact: 9036635000
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Lead Tribe has hands down been one of the most incredible communities I’ve worked with. Couldn’t be more excited for more stories & learnings from these amazing women & others in the ecosystem🙌🏼
(and ofcourse, for Lead Tribe 2😍🔜🚀)
Follow this space for more👇
@BlumeVentures
Last year, we at
@blumeventures
started ‘Lead Tribe’ - a cohort based Networking x Learning program for high potential female founders💪
Today, we further grow this powerful community to celebrate women across the ecosystem – their stories, their survival, their success🚀
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I have a Zoom call joke, but it’s currently fro... z... en... n😬
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Must read by
@sujaychoubey
on how micromarkets (as opposed to cities) are the new units of geography that ops intensive startups should use for expansion planning.
@BlumeVentures
@sajithpai
@arpiit
If you are a startup with on-ground ops in India, think in terms of pin codes (micromarkets), not cities.
That's what
@sajithpai
and I find from
@DunzoIt
&
@YuluBike
in this article on planning expansion. Read it here:
Brief thread on key highlights 👇🏽
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5/ Age - Edtech at diff ages serves diff "jobs to be done" -
- Pre-school is for day care + brain dev
- K12 is for foundational academics + social dev
- College/University is for employable skills + network dev
- Upskilling is for competitive advantages + CV dev
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To understand the root cause of this gap, we spoke with a diverse group of female founders in our network
Key learnings - the gender gap starts as early as school/college (esp w male dominated engg colleges) & continues as they fundraise, hire, network, manage teams, & sell
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Couldn't have asked for a better start to
#BlumeDayX
than with
@NandanNilekani
@balajis
@BKartRed
&
@Kuna1Bajaj
on Clubhouse!
For those those who missed it (or wanted to but couldn't shout 'once more'), here is a comprehensive recap thread by
@Kavasude204
from
@BlumeVentures
👇
Whew! A whirlwind session with
@NandanNilekani
and
@balajis
hosted by
@BlumeVentures
Major takeaways:
Covid demonstrated Indian state capacity to be robust, driven by public infrastructure (specifically, India Stack) investments over past decade.
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2/ Why we put this together?
- Edtech is rapidly evolving & is more imp now than ever post COVID
- The sector impacts not just individuals but also overall economic outlook
- As
@singh_sequoia
&
@gauravmunjal
say 'edtech is for India is what eCommerce was for China/the West'
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Kudos to
@arpiit
@jiteshluthra
@MeshaB27
@DikshaLahoti
@sujaychoubey
for leading this & the larger Blume team for their support🙏
@sajithpai
@BKartRed
@sanjaynath
@AshishFafadia
@saritaraichu
@_PassionConnect
@anirvanc
@venkatesh__modi
@kartikeya91
@RaoMaterial
@pinnambharat
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Perfectly captures three days of hyper-productivity in the midst of "hyper-fun"👌👏🤩Excited to begin the new decade with this incredible team :')
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This first Monday of 2020, the
@BlumeVentures
team raring to go...what a decade to look fwd to...
(saying this despite the gloom of climate change + tense ramifications of geopolitics everywhere - inside and outside the country) - let’s each strive to do what we do best...
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No program can be truly impactful without support from the overall ecosystem.
Grateful to have partners like
@AWSstartups
&
@FreshworksInc
who have been incredibly supportive with their time and resources🙏🏼
@nivasravi
@jiteshluthra
@BlumeVentures
We are also excited to partner with
@AWSstartups
and Freshworks for Startups (by
@FreshworksInc
) who believe in the initiative - and will be supporting the cohort with a host of benefits - including extended credits, time, and other support needed to help grow the business.
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The key phase of a 'company' truly begins after it hits PMF🎯 And that's when founders hire and build processes to 'scale it after they've nailed it'😅
Here are our takeaways from a 2.5 hours goldmine session with
@sajithpai
on all things PMF👇
Here's a look👀into our 1st workshop for
#LeadTribe
2!
2.5 hours on all things PMF by inhouse guru
@sajithpai
#NailItBeforeYouScaleIt
: Why is PMF important? What is PMF? When do you know you've hit it?
Here are 3 learnings from this🔥session👇
@BlumeVentures
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14/ Based on market size, growth potential, founder activity & our exposure, we identified 3 immediate opportunities:
1) Unbundling of formal ed
2) Prep for college-to-jobs
3) Continuous learning
& 3 future opportunities:
1) Preschool
2) B2C for kids under 10
3) B2B in formal ed
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Thanks for having us
@ecelliitg
- really enjoyed the discussion!
Panel Discussion on State of Ed-tech Sector in India with
@radhika_agar
(Investment Team,
@BlumeVentures
),
@KunaalSatija
(Founder & CEO,
@edurevin
), and Mohammed Hisamuddin (
@hisaming
Founder & CEO,
@entri_app
) is live now.
Video Link:
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Over the last year, we have seen women entrepreneurs in the
@BlumeVentures
portfolio &
@Lead_Tribe
cohort
#GrowThePool
of funded founders, rockstar leaders, & pathbreaking companies.
Now it's YOUR turn to GROW THE POOL.
Apply now & join the strongest cohort for women leaders👇
"Study reveals UK has more CEOs named Peter than women CEOs"
Yes, this is a ridiculous but true headline
It's time to GROW THIS POOL💪🇮🇳
If you're a kickass ♀️ founder looking for rapid scale & a strong community of peer founders, COME JOIN THE TRIBE👇
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Such a bizarre case of founder return, but reminds me of Apple buying NeXT for $400M in ‘96 to bring back Steve Jobs into the company he started in ‘76
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@chiaseedpuddin
So many!😍
1) Suchali’s Artisan Bakehouse🥐
2)
@MonsoonHarvest
’s banana chocolate cereal (now my go to meal😬) courtesy
@FromLBB
3) SamosaParty courtesy
@DikshaPande3
4) Scoopski cookie dough🍪 courtesy
@tibrewal_vedika
5) guilt free snacks w/
@ontherunin
courtesy
@chanachor
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And that is how Lead Tribe was born.
Are we a perfect community yet? No.
Are we trying to be the strongest community for women founders who we believe can change the game? Yes.
Ready to be that game changer? Come join the tribe:
FIN.
@BlumeVentures
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Great to see
@Akshay001
at
@leverageedu
talk about his vision at the
@asugsvsummit
Series A+ panel tonight! Keeping the India representation strong 💪👏🏼
@sajithpai
@BKartRed
@digvijaygagneja
.
@leverageedu
was among the dozen companies selected to speak at the prestigious
@asugsvsummit
2020 - in its Series A+ group - in Mar, what was going to be a cool 🇺🇸 trip w/
@BKartRed
@sajithpai
& friends, but then..
- until recently, when they took the big show virtual!
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