Avaana Capital

“One of the advantages of being an India-centered, India-located fund is our processes are agile. So we don't have to go through a lot of cycles and take investment committees elsewhere.”

“So at the early stage, I'm not sure we ever had a few months. It's just that it has gone from being a few weeks now to a few days.”

“One mistake I haven't made too often, but has happened, is to invest in the idea and not the team, because it's not, there are many ideas, it's all actually, ultimately it's about execution, India, particularly India is about execution, and we cannot be wishfu…”

“Farmart is building the largest micro SaaS platform for rural detail and farmers. And within six months, they've got a million farmers using very little capital.”

“Intello started with computer vision for quality assaying of fresh produce for horticulture. And today they are the largest digital trading platform for fresh produce of fruits and vegetables.”

“Well, we've always maintained very strong Chinese walls because otherwise we couldn't have had sort of healthy professional lives in addition to a healthy personal life. We will never talk about competitive sort of market intel, and but yes, we will talk about…”