Abhishek Rungta
11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2022 by Abhishek Rungta · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022 negative
Rungta avoids idea-stage investing, preferring second checks due to compressed timelines
“In this sprint of investing, I'm not able to really invest a lot of I mean, a lot of times I'm not able to invest in startups with just an idea stage. I mean, I would love to do that in startups, which is very early, but right now I have to look at a startup w…”
Jan 17, 2022 positive
Rungta outlines his portfolio: eight exits from 28 deals over eight years.
“Around 30 odd deals that happened between 2000 10 to 2017, 18 I have got that that was around 28 odd deals out of which I have got honorable great exits in around four of them. I have got honorable exit in around another four of them. So eight. ... 10 X is a s…”
Jan 17, 2022 positive
Rungta: Seeders backed Cropin at the idea stage and exited around 2021
“Another, another, another very big an interesting deal we did was at that time was cropping. They used to call themselves cropex. I think this was the second or third deal we did. And you know, I still remember that we did the deal at Pallav's house almost lik…”
Jan 17, 2022
Angel investors face a 'valley of despair' between years three and seven.
“Once you invest in a company and the company would take 10 years to build. Right. And the interesting thing is that the successful companies will only give show start showing results after five to seven years, but the companies which are not going to survive w…”
Jan 17, 2022 negative
Compressing startup evaluation into brief pitches harms both founders and investors.
“The time that you need to really understand if this is my right, this is the right investor for me, or if this is the right founder for me, that has almost come down to a 15 minute, half an hour, one hour pitch. And this is not great in my opinion. I think you…”
Jan 17, 2022 neutral
Rungta passed on early Freshworks because he exhausted his angel capital allocation.
“Someone, someone came and said that, you know, do you know someone is coming out of Zoho and starting a company, you know, and he's raising funds. Would you like to speak to them? And I said, you know, I have done a lot of investments and I think I am out of t…”
Jan 17, 2022 positive
Jan 17, 2022 neutral
Jan 17, 2022 neutral
Rungta passed on angel investing in OYO doubting its Airbnb-like model.
“So I think one was, I think, Oyo I think I met Ritesh in Delhi in a Thai conference we discussed and I could not you know, I could not make up my mind that, you know why would someone sleep in someone else's house? Because earlier at that time, it was a differ…”