Anand Lunia
Founding Partner, India Quotient. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Anand Lunia co-founded India Quotient in 2012 to back early-stage, India-focused startups, notably leading early investments in companies like ShareChat and Sugar Cosmetics. Previously, he co-founded the ed-tech company Brainvisa Technologies and was a partner at Seedfund.
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36%fully supported
31said about them ↓ Everything Anand Lunia said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lunia: India has a lower-middle-class boom, not a middle-class boom
“India doesn't have a middle class boom. It, however, has a huge lower middle class boom. Right. A huge number of people entering at 20, 25,000 rupees monthly income.”
Lunia: Consumer brand outcome sizes will equal major tech startup exits
“When we do a brand, we do believe that it might take longer, but the size of the outcome will be no less than the size of a social media or a hotshot tech company.”
Lunia: Indian small borrowers have better repayment rates than multinational corporates
“Their repayment rates are far better than multinational corporates today in India.”
Lunia: Indian small businesses will adopt self-service SaaS
“Contrary to perception and you know the common consensus between VCs today, we think that People will do self-service SaaS. So Indians have been written off. We believe that nobody will do self-service SaaS. We think these people will do self-service SaaS.”
Lunia: Indian Youth Consumer Spending Reflects Combined Household Income, Not Personal Earnings
“For a investor or an entrepreneur, This is a good audience because this then again, like I said earlier, The expenditure people will do is not restricted by the individual's income. It is about the income of the individual and the parents.”
Lunia: High investor demand hurts startups needing multi-year PMF discovery
“Particularly when the business needs a three year, four year discovery phase for PMF, then being too sought after by investors actually works against you.”
Lunia: Developing nations will be digitized by Indian software over next 20 years
“So I feel that next 20 years, The whole rest of the world, which is not in the developed countries will be digitized by India. The developed countries were digitized by America. Granted the next wave is ours because we are the only talent pool.”
Lunia: Full-time domestic help in India will become unaffordable within 10 years
“10 years later, it'll be unaffordable unless you're super rich, you will not have any such thing.”
Lunia: India-based VCs lack an edge in the global AI boom
“Because I don't think sitting in India I have an edge in playing the global AI. Global AI boom. Yeah. I don't think so. I would love to. I wish I wasn't here. I was there, but I am where I am.”
Lunia: Unicorn founders often make less from secondaries than FAANG employees
“So many unicorn founders, all they have achieved is maybe a 2,000,005 1,000,010 million secondary exit, and they have nothing else to show for it. Now that is nothing. I mean, most people, good qualified people make more than that in a ESOP of a large, let's s…”
Lunia: Excessive dilution leads founders to get ousted before major post-IPO gains
“Most founders, when they dilute too much, they become irrelevant and get kicked out of their companies in 10 years, which happened to some of the names that we mentioned, and then they don't get the remaining 40 X because you know, the real juice is when you b…”
Lunia: Indian startups should never raise over $50M in lifetime capital
“And how, how much capital in a lifetime, maybe in India, you probably don't want to raise more than fifty million capital ever.”
Lunia: Scarcity of $100M+ growth checks is a net positive for India
“Not having a lot of hundred million checks into India. Net net will be positive for everybody. Everybody. Yeah. I think I wouldn't regret on the contrary. If they come, then I would wonder what, like, you know, maybe, maybe we need to simply as a policy, start…”
Lunia: Non-US markets will surpass America in tech M&A within 10 years
“In SAS particularly, I feel increasingly it's happening in many businesses.
There will be enough MNA opportunities also, because like I said, in 10 years rest of the world becomes a more important MNA market than just pure America.”
Lunia: Indian public markets value tech companies higher than private markets
“In India, public markets are giving more premium valuation to many of these companies than private markets”
Lunia: Indian founders will inevitably build a homegrown Facebook
“Indian founders have to, just by the sheer number of probability, just because we are so many Indians ourselves, right? We will build our own Facebook.”
Lunia: Indian IT salaries have not grown at all in 20 years
“IT salaries haven't grown at all in the last 20 years, right?”
Lunia: Indian seed funds haven't found unicorns in crowded hype sectors
“None of us, you know seed funds have discovered a unicorn. Ever in these spaces, right? So if you look at you know, our good friends Karthik at Bloom, Orias, Rehan, none of us have so far got a unicorn, right?”
Lunia: In hyper-burn sectors, the most well-funded startup wins over better products
“Like I said, right, I mean, I am simply buying a lottery because I have no ability to move that company, right? The winner is not the smartest guy or the best product. The winner is the most well-funded there.”
Lunia: VC partners doing 10 deals a year cannot maintain quality
“For 11 years, we've known that three, four deals a year per person.
Is the ideal number to maintain discretion.
The moment you start doing 10 deals a year, it's sort of you can't really maintain the same quality.”
Lunia: Indian aspirational spending is driven by visible vanity, not luxury
“And I think kids will go outside their budgets to buy some of these things, which can show, right? So vanity and luxury I think in India, it's less of luxury, more of vanity.”
Lunia: Seed funds must invest two to three years ahead of consensus
“If I'm not early, I'm not relevant. For me, being early is an existential problem, right? I mean, after the space is discovered. So now everybody knows neobanks, right? People have been investing in new banks even till today, right? Now we've got still getting…”
Lunia: Contrarian timing attracts higher-quality founders over consensus mercenaries
“Being a little bit ahead of time, a little bit contrarian also gives you the automatically access to better quality founders. Whereas if I want to fund the next credit card company, I mean, like, you know, the founders will be today founders will be mercenarie…”
Lunia: Most Indian tech unicorns remain capped at $1B to $2B valuations
“I mean, even companies like Nica, PTM, Zomato, they have still remained in even by and large, a single digit billion outcome. And these are horizontals. They're not a lot of them. Most other unicorns also are in the one or two billion range.”
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India Quotient founders became tech investors despite zero coding experience
“We are full-fledged tech investors, as you can say, with me having zero experience of tech, by the way, I don't code. I don't understand code also, right? So of course I am an engineer, so I understand the logic of technology, but nothing hands-on. Similarly, …”
India Quotient launched with a strict rule to never syndicate deals
“Our strategy will be deciding the deal. So we will not do a syndicate kind of strategy. So we will we will invest and if the company raise more money, that's okay, but we will, our investment will not be subject to somebody else investment, right? So that was …”
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