Kunal Bahl

Fantastic move! Every college in 🇮🇳 should do this.

Unshackles the entrepreneurial spirit in those who want to build companies when they have a bright idea, rather than wait to graduate, by when it may be too late or facts change.

No wonder BITS continues to produce stellar founders! 🔥

Rab ne banayi jodi 🤩

So satisfying to see two of our partner brands at Titan Capital right next to each other! It's hard to imagine this at the seed stage but love it when it does happen.

Zouk Boba Bhai Pradeep Krishnakumar Disha Singh Dhruv Kohli

There was a time in India when building a 100 crores ($15mn) revenue company was a BIG deal. One rarely heard of people who had achieved this feat.

But now, every few weeks, a startup in India is breaking this barrier, in record time since inception.

A revolution is underway in 🇮🇳!

#startups

#entrepreneurs

#india

🎥 𝘼 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 🚀

In the journey of building your startup, you’ll come across different types of offers and deals. One of them is a royalty deal. While it might seem attractive at first glance, here’s something every founder should deeply understand:

A royalty deal often implies someone valuing your business at zero. Their focus isn’t on your success or the potential growth of your business—they’re primarily concerned with recovering their money, regardless of whether you succeed or not.

Think big, believe in your worth, and always choose partnerships that truly align with your interests. 🤝

#Startups #Founders #SharktankIndia

Sometimes you meet people - with such incredible conviction and energy, who can think only about moving forward without any insecurity of failure - and you just know that they will succeed.

It's not a matter of if, just when.

#startups #entrepreneurs #energy

This may seem like contrarian advise vs the US model of growing tech companies to large scale with VC/PE and then going public, but for a variety of reasons, this does seem like a very cogent, higher probability of success path for successful tech IPOs in 🇮🇳.

This can lead to MOIC vs IRR journeys for public market investors given the headroom left to grow into the opportunity, and hence make tech IPOs interesting for public markets.

IPOs earlier in the company's journey can make sense because:

1. Founders/promoters still own a lot of the company

2. 🇮🇳 market can support a 4k cr company (at IPO) to go to 13k cr (Indiamart for example) but a 40k cr company going to 130k cr is a tall ask given the current depth of 🇮🇳 capital markets and the profit pools that will be needed to justify the public market valuations

3. Less selling pressure post listing as fewer investors on the cap table who are looking for an exit post IPO


#capitalmarkets #startups #IPO