Blume Ventures, every mention
70 scenes · ← back to Blume Ventures
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Siddhartha Ahluwalia 99Karthik Reddy 17Vijay Rayapati 13Ashish Fafaria 12Sajith Pai 5Sanjay Nath 3Manish Taneja 3Shivakumar Ganesan 2Rajul Garg 2Divyanshu Makkar 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Blume Ventures comes up
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 4:24 unnamed speaker and then I'm in Ahmedabad's campus and then, uh, moved to Bangalore out of nowhere because Bloom was investing in us and
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 19:10 unnamed speaker So I still meet few folks who are part of Bloom team. 2 times in the scene
8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel
- ▶ 5:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You raised like 2.5 crores from bloom and Mumbai angels, right?
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- ▶ 46:26 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think, I think two people from, for me in India, uh, one is, uh, Karthik Reddy from Bloom, and other is, uh, Alok from Stellaris.
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.
- ▶ 47:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So I would rate Karthik Reddy from Bloom and Alok from Stellaris, right.
How To Hire, Train & Retain Talent To Build A Great Company | Vijay Rayapati | Khadim Batti
- ▶ 30:25 Vijay Rayapati I mean, these days I get amazed, you know, somebody spends less than two years and says, I took this company, Unicorn, and, uh, I typically believe in what Karthik Reddy of Bloom says, uh, unless you spend three years with Bloom, uh, 2 times in the scene
Zerodha’s Move Into A ₹68 Lakh Cr Industry | CEO Vishal Jain On Expanding India’s 8% Investor Base
- ▶ 25:48 Vishal Jain Uh, you know, culturally or, uh, or whatever you may say, but even, uh, when we look at kind of, uh, in terms of per capita income, um, I understand that, um, there was a report which came out by bloom ventures, right?
Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
- ▶ 1:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It's my pleasure to welcome Bloom's Ventures 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Ashish Fafaria So Indian market was always, the way Bloom has looked at Indian market is always these two parts. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:53 Ashish Fafaria So imagine I'm talking about Bloom, which is a 12 year journey, where I've quoted four examples, where a full fund return can be generated.
- ▶ 33:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia The, in the second fund of bloom, how large was it? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:07 Ashish Fafaria But this is what was validating what we were pitching as a platform vision of Blue. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Ashish, would love to talk about the top five portfolio companies of Bloom and a brief about your journey with them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:48 Ashish Fafaria Bloom is a living example where a team has been built 3 times in the scene
UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- ▶ 35:08 Sharad Sharma Um, they're a bloom portfolio company.
Watch This BEFORE Renting Out Your Property In India! | SEBI Manager Deepak Shenoy on The Neon Show
- ▶ 57:05 Deepak Shenoy Bloom funded.
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 1:02:08 Vijay Rayapati Uh, and, uh, we started talking to Bloom folks. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:02 Vijay Rayapati And, ah, even though we raised money from Bloom, ah, we didn't actually got most of that money into bank when Nutanix deal was happening.
- ▶ 1:26:17 Vijay Rayapati And, uh, you know, that's, uh, one of the reasons why, uh, I have such a great relationship with, uh, Bloom folks, and they also have a very high trust on us.
- ▶ 2:01:04 Vijay Rayapati Just like Bloom folks gave me,
How Purplle Became a Billion Dollar Marketplace for Cosmetics Ft. Founder, Manish Taneja
- ▶ 18:08 Manish Taneja Um, uh, Bloom came in in 2013, and I had known Bloom, um, 3 times in the scene
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 He Built India's #1 SaaS for Manufacturers? Ft. Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-Founder-Sourcewiz
- ▶ 27:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia The other was from alpha wave incubation, right?
- ▶ 32:23 Divyanshu Makkar And Bloom had done a fair amount of ed tech investments in seed stage. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So, so initially your first round, you know, you selected, uh, Bloom because of the founder love they had in the ecosystem. 4 times in the scene
Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
- ▶ 14:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Bloom read out to you many times and that's a story we'd love to learn. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So the initial 2.5 crore term sheet that was put together by Mumbai angels and Bloom 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:52 Shivakumar Ganesan Uh, uh, the first time I heard it was in bloom day. 2 times in the scene
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 4:57 Avlesh Singh We also raised some capital from the likes of GTI, Boom, etc., including Rajan, he was an angel investor back in the day.
Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
- ▶ 16:02 Sameer Guglani Rajan was there, Rajan and then Bloom, India Push and Ganesh, all of our LPs, previous ones, they repeated, they brought their friends.
Blume Ventures, Director on Investing in future of Electric Vehicles ft. Arpit Agarwal
- ▶ 2:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Arpit Agarwal from Bloom Ventures. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:50 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, and the third market, which, which you said is that Bloom is serving is, can you throw more light on that market?
- ▶ 27:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia These are very three interesting markets which you have taken, you know, positions in Arpit as Bloom.
- ▶ 32:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And I think except early stage, uh, uh, established venture firms like Bloom, uh, late stage funds are yet to take bets in this market. 2 times in the scene
@HealthifyMe founder on Funding, Growth, Healthcare in India ft. Tushar Vashisht
- ▶ 16:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, you know, early on you raised funds from Bloom, a lot of angels like Pallav Nandini, uh, and, and then, you know, Inventus.
Founder and CEO of @WhitehatJr Karan Bajaj on his journey | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 35:25 Karan Bajaj Uh, we reached out to Omidyar and Bloom, if I remember correctly, uh, like as, uh, like to help us with education, if you will.
Inside the mind of Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder & CEO, Locus
- ▶ 15:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, in your fundraise, when did, you know, Bloom and Tiger, uh, and Falconer join in? 2 times in the scene
Sajith Pai, Blume Ventures on building personal brands, being open-minded, and unlearning to succeed
- ▶ 0:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Sajidh Pai, Director at Bloom Ventures.
- ▶ 1:52 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So now, now coming to about you, you know, before we proceed into the podcast, you know, I would love to know about your journey to Bloom Ventures. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Sajith Pai So I used to write a lot, and I think certainly think that had a lot to do with, uh, uh, uh, how attractive I was to a venture firm like Blue, uh, because I, and I've been writing systematically since 2012, uh, you know, and, and,
- ▶ 13:07 Sajith Pai In fact, if you were to go back to the, if you go to, go to Bloom, and internally ask them, and some keywords for Sajid, like the tag cloud for Sajid, process actually would feature in one of them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I mean, coming to, you know, your, uh, you know, your investments at Bloom, what are the sectors you look at and what are the companies that you are working with closely or have led at Bloom? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:50 Sajith Pai So, um, so I would say that, yes, um, uh, I think Bloom, that's one of our thesis areas.
Ishpreet Gandhi, Stride Ventures on the emerging role of Venture Debt in the startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 23:43 Ishpreet Gandhi Including the likes of Omnivore, Bloom, uh, Indusage, uh, others.
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 0:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today I have with me Sanjay Naath, Managing Partner, Bloom Ventures.
- ▶ 0:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Sanjay, we'd love to know more about your journey, how you started Bloom before we dive into, you know, the current scenario which is prevailing today. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And the way Bloom is leading a set of portfolio, you have been doing, I think, almost a webinar daily for your portfolio on different aspects on how to best help them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So currently, as you said, there are 75 plus bloom portfolio companies right now.
- ▶ 16:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So can you share about the portfolio companies, uh, in bloom who are, uh, working on future of work?
- ▶ 21:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And in, in, in, in, like when you began, like when you began, Bloom works as a thesis across all, you know, the partners, the team members.
- ▶ 22:09 Sanjay Nath I think, you know, for Bloom III, we have become far more thesis driven. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And from investment point of view, so is Bloom spending a still majority of the time, let's say, 30, 40% looking at new deals, or the focus is completely for the next one, two months on the existing portfolio?
- ▶ 40:53 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So insights shared by Bloom founders or the team on what, what can be the best case scenario coming out of twenty-twenty? 3 times in the scene
Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
- ▶ 13:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia A lot of big names are now investing in Agritech, including Tiger Global and Bloom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:01 Mark Kahn Bloom and Be Next, and they're making farm, very low-cost farm robots to, to automatically, uh, harvest, uh, sorry, to, to, to, to do automatic spraying for weed control in, in cotton.
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 20:57 Gaurav Munjal Then, then the next, next is, I think, uh, uh, of, of all, we, we, we have been lucky to get some of the best investors on board, whether that's Bloom, whether that's a SAFE, Nexus, or Sequoia, and, uh, and, uh, in the last round,…
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 41:16 Anand Lunia So if you look at, uh, you know, our good friends, uh, Karthik at Bloom, Orias, Rehan, none of us, uh, have so far got a unicorn, right?
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
- ▶ 27:24 Rajul Garg We have Bloom with us, uh, in Beto, you know, and from Angel portfolio, we have several investors in different companies and all that. 2 times in the scene
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 0:05 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I have today with me Kartik Reddy, founder and managing partner, Bloom Ventures. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So you are known as the hard guy in bloom and Sanjay is known as the soft guy. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So bloom is known to be the most founder friendly VC in the ecosystem. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Karthik Reddy So I think one realization is that cycles are very long in this business, and that's not, uh, India's, uh, uh, specific, that's not a Bloom-specific problem.
- ▶ 29:16 unnamed speaker Indian VCs and talking about Bloom also, you have preferred founders who are magnanimous storytellers.
- ▶ 41:39 unnamed speaker As part of the Bloom DNA, we would like to know, when you bought grey orange, there was no taker for that market in India. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:39 Karthik Reddy The others were all very promising businesses to a global buyer who either wanted India or emerging market access or wanted access to the product portfolio to take global and thought this little Indian company out of a Bloom portfolio was…
- ▶ 1:02:32 Karthik Reddy And their futures and their, and you're asking them to, like, give up a lot, be underpaid, buy into the passion, vision of a bloom, and stick around for 10 years, 20 years. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:21 Karthik Reddy The only thing I remember and I can look forward to is Bloom. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:16 unnamed speaker They must have said, hey yaar, bloom wale acche hai, but they can't cut more than two 50 K. 3 times in the scene