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How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- ▶ 24:47 Baskar Subramanian So incidentally in 2021, early 20 21, we did a deal with, uh, Axel, Norwest and others only as a secondary transaction.
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 30:15 unnamed speaker The second was when we raised money from Axel and, uh, uh, Shunve.
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- ▶ 41:16 unnamed speaker I said, I'll quit Axel and put my own money if you guys don't invest.
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 17:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Most of, even if you see the larger funds in India, like Bloom, Solaris or Axel of the world, 90% of their money comes from outside India, mostly US, right?
- ▶ 33:48 Kushal Bhagia Like if a company is ready for Axel, Sequoia, Bloom today, then likely I'm already late. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:57 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It was like, uh, Abhishek from Traxon and that took, and he was an associate in Axel then that took a standing that I'm going to put my money in it. 4 times in the scene
How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- ▶ 0:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I have today Priyank Saroop with me, partner at Axel. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what are the things that you think, uh, you know, you could have, or Axel could have done differently in the last 1014 years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Prayank Swaroop Uh, there are enough companies in databases, uh, which are like, for example, Axel is invested in E six data. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:48 Prayank Swaroop We also, so, uh, and within our six, fifty million fund, we also run the Axel Atoms program. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:48 Prayank Swaroop We also, so, uh, and within our six, fifty million fund, we also run the Axel Atoms program. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:54 Prayank Swaroop We have, uh, Axel growth fund, which is 1.3 billion, which was also raised in January. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:00 Prayank Swaroop And then we have a four billion dollar leaders fund or a late stage fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And Axel is doing a lot of content initiative. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:01 Prayank Swaroop Um, even for example, in atoms, when we do atoms, we, we have not kept it a closed book. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:06 Prayank Swaroop So you walk into the office and so, uh, you know, when I, uh, when I joined Accel, uh, I was like, okay, uh, I was completely new, uh, software engineer turned product manager, land up here, need to learn how VC works. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, so is Axel India ready for that?
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 1:11:43 Avnish Bajaj And I think some of these companies, Flipkart in particular, believe it or not, Axel had called me
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:09:16 Sharad Sharma I love what Subrata, for example, uh, used to say for even Flipkart in those, you remember Axel had many, uh, many investments in, uh, in, uh, e-commerce companies.
Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- ▶ 45:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because it was a firm that everyone said could never become Sequoia or Axel.
Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder
- ▶ 33:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Like, like Axel is considered to be one of the most famous SaaS investors from India, right?
These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- ▶ 31:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think back then Freshworks were raising their, what, uh, one or two million dollar check from Axel.
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- ▶ 36:39 Sanjay Swamy There is a difference between Neon Fund and Prime and, uh, Axel and Peaks-V or, you know, whoever.
Nansi Asks Siddhartha About Neon Fund 3, VC Career And Future Life Updates I Neon Show
- ▶ 9:35 Siddhartha (Siddharth) I think in India, I like Axel a lot because, uh, they have maintained their very high reputation throughout in the last 18 years since they started. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:47 Siddhartha (Siddharth) First it was Erasmik, which got acquired by Axel in the US later, and they rebranded it to Axel India.
Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
- ▶ 25:12 Ashish Fafaria So, uh, talking about, uh, Erasmik, which now is known as Axel, that's the Axel India team. 2 times in the scene
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 21:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think, uh, people who reaped benefits, uh, were those that set up proper shops in India, like Sequoia earlier or Matrix or Axel. 2 times in the scene
The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- ▶ 1:26:19 Anand Lunia You know, Excel, for example, if you see there's a full new generation, which is taken over, right?
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 2:01:06 Vijay Rayapati Or Axel folks gave it to, you know, Girish and, you know, like, etc.
ATHER FOUNDER: "Selling Over 11,000 Scooters Per Month & Creating India's Best EV Brand" | Tarun M
- ▶ 39:55 Tarun Mehta Like it's like, oh yeah, an axle, a lot of,
Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- ▶ 4:34 Alok Goyal Axel had done the round and Tiger had already done the round there.
5 Most Important Decisions of Our Lives | Journey of Siddhartha & Nansi, Founders, 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 19:46 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So we started, we invested in Airmeet as the first check along with Axel.
Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- ▶ 30:14 Vaibhav Sisinty I had friends like Siddharth Ram, and you know, like Bharat, who had worked at Axel, Bloom, and all.
How Meena Ganesh Built Portea, India's Leading Home Health Care with 150000+ Home Visits Every Month
- ▶ 30:13 Meena Ganesh So we are the investor base includes, uh, Axel partners, both India and the U S venture East.
SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- ▶ 2:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Clevertap is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia India, Tiger Global, Accel, and Recruit Holdings.
- ▶ 28:20 Anand Jain We had Axel and Sequoia that backed us during that time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:59 Anand Jain I interact with a lot of early stage startup, uh, entrepreneurs, uh, sometimes, you know, it's through Sequoia or through Accel or generally people reach out to me on Twitter or on email.
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 34:35 Kushal Bhagia Atta Sequoia, IQ, Accel, etc. will do, right?
@vedantubrand founder on funding, building a unicorn and ed-tech ft. Vamsi Krishna
- ▶ 12:47 Vamsi Krishna So I would say just four months into the launch, we got funded by Axel and Tiger came in with a five million dollar check in 2015.
Zetwerk founder on Pivoting, Funding and Building a Manufacturing Unicorn ft. Amrit Acharya
- ▶ 41:52 Amrit Acharya So we have, uh, Sequoia, we have Accel, we have Lightspeed, we have Green Oaks, uh, you know, the, um, uh, all, all of them, you know, supported the company when, when, when it was, uh, it was not the easiest decision for, for, I'm sure…
Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep
- ▶ 1:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You, you started your journey in the startup world in 2008 with Axel, you know, you got, uh, Axel Flipkart, the India's largest startup story, which has inspired, I think thousands of entrepreneurs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:00 Abhishek Goyal Coincidentally, I ended up joining Axel. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:54 Abhishek Goyal But one of my close friends, Nitin Rajput, they were backed by Accel. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And in the book by Mihir Dalal, it's mentioned that you kept on, you know, Flipkart seemed to be like a ridiculous bet for Axel, but you kept on pinging them again and again to the partners. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:33 Abhishek Goyal So I would also say that book was slightly more than what reality might have been because I was out from Excel at that time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:00 Abhishek Goyal So Accel has been backing some global consumer companies in their portfolio.
Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India
- ▶ 48:15 Krishna Kumar Uh, I don't remember, but from Axel or some, some venture capital in India, they did a good report where they're saying how SAS Indian SAS is becoming relevant in India and people are buying SAS products.
Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture on the rise of Angel Investing in India
- ▶ 10:59 Shanti Mohan And, um, you know, we have Anupam Mittal, we have Axel, we have Rajan Anandhan, we have Ratan Tata, Mohandas Pai, Nandan Lelandani, Sharad Sharma, you know, name it.
Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- ▶ 5:06 Shruti Gandhi Uh, it's also with Excel.
- ▶ 25:03 Shruti Gandhi So our success is once they get a good round from the Excel or the Sequoia or other funds out there.
Naren Gupta on the journey of Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 15:28 unnamed speaker I think Excel and Sequoia have advantages to do enterprise technology in India.
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 18:56 Anand Chandrasekaran Uh, and in the past they've raised money from Sequoia and Excel and others in India.
Pankaj Makkar, Bertelsmann India Investments, on Investing in Growth Stage Startups
- ▶ 4:42 Pankaj Makkar Uh, very strong partners for us like Accel, Sequoia, uh, Lightspeed, uh, Mayfield, and so on.
Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Episode 51 | Manish Singhal, pi Ventures
- ▶ 6:10 Manish Singhal So that sort of happened, I would say a bit by luck, uh, invested in a company called Locus in 2015, and they do AI for logistics, and it opened the whole door for me at least, you know, to understand what the power of machine learning,…
- ▶ 38:58 Manish Singhal And, uh, from a fund side, I think Subrita Mitra from Axel has been a very good support.
Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- ▶ 46:24 Sanjay Swamy And a tremendous respect for, uh, the scale at which a Sequoia, or an Accel, or a Lightspeed, you know, work with, or a Matrix, you know, people like that, Nexus, all these larger funds.
The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- ▶ 5:44 Sarbvir Singh And the third thing that I'd say is that as we looked around, and this was actually more a later stage issue, which we later learned, is that even if you look at countries like US and China, where there were large funds, so the US already…
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 53:02 Karthik Reddy Taxi for sure, of course, was along with Axel and Helene, but they were great founders, but they've now been exited for years.
- ▶ 1:14:36 Karthik Reddy They'll have like Axel, Sequoia, Nexus, and multiple cool names to hang, uh, to deal with them.
- ▶ 1:17:37 unnamed speaker And then, uh, obviously they must have met Anand that Axel who liked them, got a million dollars.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
- ▶ 40:58 Girish Shivani Excel is doing some very interesting stuff.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 25 | Prashant Pansare, Co-Founder Eagle10 Ventures
- ▶ 8:37 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Early stage funds like Eagleton Ventures, how do they make a name for themselves when they are funds like Safe, Sequoia, Matrix, Assel entering the seed stage?