Jishnu Bhattacharjee
Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He focuses on early-stage cross-border investments connecting the US and India, specializing in enterprise SaaS, developer tools, AI, and cloud infrastructure. He is best known for backing companies such as Postman, Druva, Kaltura, Observe.AI, and Rancher Labs.
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Nexus VP claims Postman's customer acquisition cost is zero
“Like, I mean, our CAC is zero customer acquisition cost is zero.”
Bhattacharjee claims Postman brought consumer-grade network effects to enterprise software
“See, I think this is the first time probably any company in the world I know of has brought in this concept of network effects into enterprise software.”
For startups like Postman, ARR is a lagging indicator
“I definitely think that for most of the companies like Postman for us, ARR is a lagging indicator. Like we, among all the metrics that drives the company, I will definitely say that in, in most cases, it's not the ARR, which is the main goal.”
Several Indian tech startups will IPO by late 2022
“I think, you know, you will see several companies, several IPOs for companies being built out of India in the coming, you know, let's say, 12 to 24 months.”
Postman grows 3x profitably and generates cash without growth spend
“And of course, like, you know, I mean, the company is growing without spending any money. I mean, you know, I don't know very many companies which grows like, you know, three X profitably. You know, without, without like kind of, you know, generating cash rath…”
Two to three co-founders is the optimal startup founding team size
“I find that, you know, two to three people team are probably the best beyond that it become like one is maybe, maybe too few and beyond three sometimes becomes a challenge.”
Nexus VP decided early to avoid investing in IT services companies
“So that's why one thing we decided is that we are not going to invest in any IT services company, which was a very different kind of step and decision compared to any other fund in India at the time, any other fund.”
24 venture firms passed on Gluster before Nexus VP invested
“I remember, 24 VCs passed, saying that, you know, I mean, you are smoking, you know, nobody can build storage and software and all that, and we thought totally opposite, and Naren and I invested in the company. That was my first investment, VC investment.”
Nexus VP invested a $1M seed in Postman pre-incorporation
“We did the first, very first investment when it happened, it was just a seed. In fact, the company was not even incorporated, if I'm not mistaken. Then they, we put in some seed money. They came in to our office, we're in Bangalore, where they started working …”
Software products should deliver tangible user value within 30 minutes
“I think our philosophy is that every product should be self-serve in a way that, you know, if somebody gets, gets handed the product, they should be able to get value of the product in like out of the product in like next 30 minutes. So, so there shouldn't be …”
Postman still holds almost 100% of its $200M funding in bank
“I mean, total in the company, we raised maybe 200 odd million. Almost hundred percent of the money is still in the bank.”
Nexus VP predicted in 2020 that Druva would IPO by 2022
“Dhruva has grown, grown very big and hopefully like, you know, incoming Coming year or two, we can take the company public.”
Winning Indian SaaS blends global product leadership with local operational efficiency
“My view is that what I would love to see over the coming decade is the nice blend of the two where you are coming up with that kind of global product leadership capability as you are building kind of product first companies and marry that up, like build your e…”
Nexus VP's first investment DimDim was a precursor to Zoom
“The first investment that Nexus made was in early in a company called DimDim, which would have been Zoom. Like, if you look at it was exactly Zoom, Zoom prior to Zoom. The idea was, you know, Webex and others didn't have the experience, and this gentleman out …”
Bhattacharjee: Nexus VP invests in pre-PowerPoint stage startups
“The underlying commonality and the spark that we look for is product first thinking. Like it doesn't mean that somebody we have even invested in companies which are in PowerPoint or sometimes even pre PowerPoint. So it's not that somebody has to have a product…”
Druva had users in 26 countries with minimal revenue at investment
“Jaspreet and Milind, they had this product, which was actually being used, like their bookings was very less, like, you know, revenue was probably hardly five or something like that, or even less. But the product was being used in 26 countries.”
Nexus VP was Postman's sole investor through its 2015 Series A
“20 14 we invested that seed money and that we rolled it into 2015 end of 2015 we led our series a and we are the only investor till that time”
Bhattacharjee: Postman reached over 12 million users
“Like, when we invested, it was like, you know, tens of thousands of users. At this point, as we talk about, it's twelve million plus users.”
Postman hosted over 250 million APIs on its platform in 2020
“Postman is becoming the, like at this point, currently we have like two, fifty million plus APIs in Postman platform.”
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