Ritesh Banglani
Co-founder & Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ritesh Banglani is a co-founder and Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm in India. He was previously a partner at Helion Ventures and an investor at IDG Ventures India.
Everything Ritesh Banglani said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Banglani: Returning a $300M fund today is easier than $90M in 2017
“So I'm actually more bullish on
Being able to deliver on a three hundred million dollar fund today than I was in being able to deliver a ninety million dollar fund in 2017.”
Banglani: VCs should focus on controllable input metrics rather than DPI
“DPI is an output variable Siddharth. We don't really measure ourselves on the on the output that's for our LPs to do. That's for the market to do. We measure ourselves on our ability to attract the best entrepreneurs to ourselves. So, and we try to measure tha…”
Banglani: VCs Outside Founders' First-Choice List Face Severe Adverse Selection
“For entrepreneurs, it's a funnel. In the first reach out, you will not go to all the 30 odd funds that that exist in India. You will go to a list of five funds. If those five do not invest in you, then you go to the next list of 10 funds, and then you'll go to…”
Banglani: Alok Goyal and I initially opposed Stellaris investing in Mamaearth
“With Mama Arth with Mama Arth, I'm quite relieved that Rahul did the deal, even though Alok and I were quite opposed to it at that point.”
Banglani: AI makes previously unviable business models profitable via delivery cost collapse
“So it enables business models that did not exist before, or that were unviable before, because of that, because that delivery cost is crunched massively.”
Banglani: Venture capital returns depend on deal access before deal analysis
“Unlike many other asset areas, the one important thing in venture is that not everyone has equal access. I might be smart enough to recognize the next Zomato, But if the founder of the next Zomato is not coming to pitch to me, I'll make exactly zero dollars fr…”
Banglani: 100% deal coverage means no proprietary venture deal flow exists
“Nobody wants a hundred percent because that means there are no proprietary deals in the market, not for us, not for others. Just like we want we want to access certain entrepreneurs before they even start their fundraise. So do our peers and competitors. So a …”
Banglani: Stellaris remains strictly tech-only, India-only, and early-stage-only
“We took that call relatively early on that we will we will be tech only, India only, and early stage only. And for the past eight plus years, we have followed that strategy.”
Banglani: One-off late-stage investments increase portfolio risk and hurt LP fundraising
“We can't have a one-off late stage investment in our portfolio because it increases the risk. It makes fundraising harder. And of course that is not our area of expertise either. So we have said no to those kinds of opportunities.”
Banglani: Credit will become a substantial part of India's UPI
“If you look at the largest payment systems globally, whether it is Visa or MasterCard or American Express in the US, or whether it is Alipay in China, they have a substantial, if not majority credit component. In India, UPI is massive, but it's debit only. So …”
Banglani: Generative AI cuts Dashtune's comic creation costs by 90%
“So with generative AI, they are able to crash the cost of creating a comic by 90%.”
Banglani: Six Stellaris portfolio companies crossed $1M ARR in under a year
“I started in venture in 2007, in that 2007 through 11 period, when we used to build projections for our portfolio companies, we would project them to get to, we would project that they would get to a million dollars in annualized revenue in three to four years…”
Banglani: Cost reduction from AI will drive Indian consumer AI startups globally
“I think as Indian entrepreneurs realize that they can sell globally and that AI reduces the cost to that extent that it becomes viable to sell globally, we should see a lot more consumer AI startups come out of India.”
Banglani: Stellaris Sees Over 90% of Relevant Indian Market Deals
“When we started, our coverage ratio was about 55%. So we were seeing roughly half of the deals that were happening in the market at the right time. And I'm quite proud of the fact that for the last three years, that coverage ratio for us has been more than 90%…”
Banglani: Stellaris sold small secondary stakes during early COVID
“So we took a decision at that point to do small secondaries in two of our companies so that we have the capital to help our portfolio if needed.”
The other half of the tape: Ritesh Banglani's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 2 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Statements about Ritesh Banglani, by other people (1)
Goyal: Stellaris enforces strict sector boundaries for its investment team
“We took a call right at the beginning that we will be organized by sectors. And these are fairly hard gated boundaries of sectors. If I do SAS, then I do SAS. When I find a FinTech deal, I'm actually going to send it to him. I'm not going to do that because qu…”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Co-founder & Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners | 1 | 16 | — | full record on the Neon Show → |