Shripati Acharya
Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners. On 1 show, 5 appearances, plus 2 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Shripati Acharya is a managing partner at Prime Venture Partners, an Indian early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to investing, he co-founded photo service Snapfish and mobile PoS company Ezetap, and worked with UIDAI on India's Aadhaar project.
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127said about them ↓ Everything Shripati Acharya said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
India has the best payment rails in the world, hands down
“But we have the best payment rails in the world. Hands down. Instant Payments, costless, from any to any, person to person, business to business, business to consumer, et cetera, and an adoption of it, which is really unprecedented.”
Acharya: Predictable and Repeatable VC Exits in India Remain Unproven
“The things which I would say as a private market venture investor, which people are still have question marks on, is around liquidity and exits. So, of course, part, ah, limited partners who are investing money in India want to have a view of when they are goi…”
Acharya: Flawed market sizing is the primary reason early-stage startups fail
“And what happens typically is that the overwhelming reason why a particular company does, you know, doesn't end up doing well is that some of your assumptions around the size of the market do not work out. I would say that just happens to be the overwhelming I…”
Digitization creates startup opportunities by formalizing India's informal economy
“The fact that a lot of the economy is getting formalized is like as if the water level is coming down. So even if the growth was not there, we'll actually see in terms of business opportunities, a lot of the economy getting formalized, becoming more visible as…”
Monthly VC check-ins offer founders general platitudes, not meaningful help
“And you cannot help a company if you actually are just meeting once a month. I mean, that's just our belief. And so if you intend to support, then you need to have more context. Otherwise, it just becomes more platitudes and general gyan.”
VCs raise Fund 1 on partners, Fund 2 on founders, Fund 3 on returns
“He said that your first fund is raised on the reputation of the partners. The second fund is raised on your reputation of your founders. And the third fund is raised on the performance of the funds.”
High partner engagement is incompatible with large VC portfolio sizes
“The thing is that you cannot both say I'm going to be, Highly engaged with the company, understand it, have the bandwidth from all the partners, and work closely, and help with the fundraise, and have a lot of companies. I mean, it just is a inconsistent parad…”
Standalone digital wallets make no sense if bank transfers are seamless
“Wallets on their own don't make sense, because the bank account is the wallet, if you can take money in and out of it, you know, seamlessly.”
India's 6% growth rate is the highest among large global economies
“I think our economy and the basic foundations are very robust, you know, somewhere around six percent growth rate, which is the largest highest for any large economy.”
Seeking work-life balance only outside of work hours is flawed
“Saying that, okay, I will do eight hours of work, and then I'll go outside and get balance. Is actually unbalanced, I think, because I think what you are working on should be something which you are both happy about, which you think has got purpose, and which …”
Prime VP invested in just seven companies from its inaugural $8M fund
“Yeah, we did seven companies. Actually, we're very concentrated, as you know, and we continue to be a concentrated fund, which is a different topic we can discuss perhaps.”
Prime VP founders took no fund fees for their first 12 months
“So we actually didn't even take any expenses from drawdown from the fund because we felt like we need to actually invest before we can justify having fund expenses.”
Web3 games funded in the 2020-2022 boom will launch in 2023-2024
“We need to understand that games take two to three years to build. And a lot of games have been funded in 2020, 21, 22, with very high quality teams. And so in 23 and 24, we'll start seeing all of these come into the market.”
The India-to-global SaaS opportunity will outpace the domestic market
“I feel that the India to global opportunity will be bigger, both in horizontal and vertical SaaS.”
More Indian tech companies will be ready for IPOs by early 2024
“So my, ah, belief is that towards the end of this year and early next, ah, we should actually see a lot more of companies which are ready to go public.”
Prime VP meets with its active portfolio companies on a weekly basis
“We met our companies very regularly. It's weekly. We continue to do that with our active companies now, now as well.”
Prime VP secured full commitments for its $45M Fund 2 in months
“Those funds, I think it took, ah, I would say by the time we had, ah, commitments fully would have taken four to six months.”
Prime VP raised $70M for Fund 3 and $120M for Fund 4
“And then the fund three was 70 grand of million. That's correct. Of current fund one 20. One 20. So it's been a great ride, right? Eight, 45. 70 and 70 I also believe would have taken 10 companies. Yeah, it's about, it's closer to 15. Closer to 15 and the curr…”
Web3 gaming platform Glip surpassed one million monthly active users
“And they have a million plus, a million you know, monthly active users, users who are now exposed to these web three games”
The other half of the tape: Shripati Acharya's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 127 times in 110 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Siddhartha Ahluwalia 78Sanjay Swamy 9Amit Somani 6Tushar Vashisht 1
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 12 mentions in 12 episodes 1 per episode
- Joining Deepika to Manage her Investments to Building 82°East with her ft. Jigar K Shah
- The Journey of MBA Chaiwala - Prafull Billore! How Bigger Struggles to Lead to Bigger Successes
- How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
- From TaxiForSure to Koo: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Aprameya Radhakrishna
- Breaking Down India's B2B Digital Payment Ecosystem with Cashfree CEO Akash Sinha
- WeWork In India - The Untold Story with CEO Karan Virwani | 100x Entrepreneur
- Acquisition By Freshworks and Building SaaS in Chennai with Srikrishnan Ganesan, Founder, Rocketlane
- Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 29 mentions in 29 episodes 1 per episode
- The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
- Is India's Real Estate Industry Doomed? | NoBroker IITian Founder on The Neon Show
- The Reality of Web3 That Only Few know ft Santosh Panda, Co-Founder, Foundership
- Status-driven Indian Society, Learnings, & Building For Bharat- Lal Chand Bisu, CEO, Kuku FM
- The PLAYBOOK To Win The D2C Market Ft. Abhishek Goenka, Head & CIO RPSG Capital Ventures
- India's Favorite WhatsApp Solution Provider Ft. Karthik Jagannathan, Founder of Gallabox
- How to Build a Second Brain? THIS Will Change Your Life! | Ft. Tiago Forte | 100x Entrepreneur
- How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 35 mentions in 29 episodes 1 per episode
- Mfine founder on Healthcare Technology and Tele-medicine in India ft. Prasad Kompalli @mfinecare
- @HealthifyMe founder on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India ft. Tushar Vashisht
- @vedantubrand founder on funding, building a unicorn and ed-tech ft. Vamsi Krishna
- @rajshamani on Making Money, Organic Growth and Content Creation on Social Media
- Brand Building, fundraising by the founder of Bombay Shaving Company, Ex- McKinsey, IIM
- Marico Limited founder on Sustainability, Growth and Hiring ft. Harsh Mariwala
- Nazara Technologies founder on IPO and future of the Company @NazaraGames
- How @JoshTalksLive went viral in India? ft. Co-founder, Supriya Paul
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 47 mentions in 38 episodes 1 per episode
- Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
- Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman
- Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture on the rise of Angel Investing in India
- Mohan Lakhamraju, Founder, Great Learning on building $100 Million ARR EdTech Business in India
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
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| NEON SHOWLEDGER | Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners | 5 +2 | 20 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Neon Show → |