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E75 - Pioneering Indian Venture Capital w/Accel's Prashanth Prakash

Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

English - November 14, 2021 18:25 - 41 minutes - 29.7 MB
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Previous Episode: E74 - Building an AI Native Future w/Mad Street Den (MSD)'s Ashwini Asokan
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In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Prashanth Prakash, Partner at Accel India. 


Accel Partners India is one of the most accomplished institutional venture investors of our ecosystem. Accel has funded ground-breaking Indian ventures including the likes of BookMyShow, MuSigma, Flipkart, Freshworks, Swiggy, BrowserStack, Moglix, Urban Company!


Through the episode we discuss -


1. (2:14) : The Accel Ideology of Investing ~ Having a Prepared Mind! 


2. (05:05) : The Freshworks Deal for Accel 🚀


3. (08:58) : Decoding Venture Partnerships from Accel's perspective ~ Co-creating from Seed to Scale


4. (12:32) : Establishing Institutional Venture Practice in the Ecosystem


5. (19:17) : Identifying outliers as a Venture Investor


6. (25:42) : Pattern Matching v/s Prepared Mind


7. (30:36) : Uncovering Prashanth's investor persona  & journey!


8. (38:16) : The decade that lies ahead of us for the Indian Silicon Valley!


9. (40:26) : Conclusion


Hope you liked the 75th Episode of the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast - Pioneering Indian Venture Capital!


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