Indian Startups
topic on 4 shows · 10 statements across 8 episodes
My First Million 
the Neon Show 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
20VC
10 statements about Indian Startups, every show
Sharma: Indian Startups Will Struggle Against Incumbents Like Salesforce In AI
“Similarly, I would say in many corporate use cases you know, will we be able to win? I don't think so. For example Salesforce has got such a lock in on customer facing kind of corporate use cases. And since our way of thinking about those use cases is more or …”
Parekh: Startups will contribute $2T-$5T to India's future economy
“A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Right. Think of these the top 10 companies today itself. And if you add up their market cap and even today and experience, assume that this will grow up five X, 10 X over the next 10 years, that's the minimum that you woul…”
Chanchani: Indian startups will create hundreds of thousands of wealthy employees
“I think that third wave is being brought about by our startups where, you know, we'll probably end up seeing, you know, lakhs of people actually you know, becoming rich. By being simply employees rather than, you know, becoming founders”
Indian SaaS startups win by expanding globally before targeting domestic market
“If we win globally and then go to India, like the chances of success are actually even better. Like if you see most of the even Indian startups who are doing well, like I would say BrowserStack, Chargebee some of the newer age companies they're all global comp…”
Rajan Anandan: 40% of Indian seed-funded startups build for global markets
“40% of all Indian startups that raised seed funding last year, in that definition, were building for the world from day zero.”
Rajan Anandan: Indian startup funding reached over $40B in 2021
“The total funding into Indian startups was over forty billion dollars. That was up from ten billion in twenty-twenty, and 20, I mean, this depends on like which data, but twenty-nineteen was fourteen billion, right?”
Prashanth Prakash: Only two Indian startups raised $50M+ external rounds in 2023
“From new externally led rounds, there's been two this year. So it's a tough market.”
Shaan Puri: Cheap Mobile Data Created A Golden Cohort Of Indian Startups
“Like now is a, it's a golden cohort of companies. Cause they're all riding the back of this thing where one company basically gave away for the internet essentially a dirt dirt cheap cost cheaper than in America. So a lot of people got online.”
Swamy: Indian startups now hit $5M-$10M revenue in 12-18 months
“10 years ago, you know, getting to five, ten million dollars of revenue was itself a big achievement, but now we're seeing that happening, you know, in 12 to 18 months in some cases.”