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How TATA Acquired Jaguar, Tetley, Corus and Redefined Indian Ambition | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 46:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Maybe we really, ah, tell them what value they added to Neon. 4 times in the scene
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 21:36 unnamed speaker Uh, you know, I, I have seen Siddharth, uh, uh, journey, uh, from him doing a startup to now running Neon and investing in Misa.
For the CEOs of 2026, From One of India's Top Leaders | Roopa Kudva, Ex-CEO Crisil
- ▶ 8:55 unnamed speaker Like for Neon, we are part of 60 companies.
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- ▶ 1:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US, India, Corridor, like Atomic Works, Poddraft, CloudSec.
- ▶ 26:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And we asked them, you know, after the investment that why did you choose Neon or the tier one VCs?
3 Steps on How Large Companies Decide to Buy From a Startup or Not | CIO Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 0:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddhartha Luwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests at the earliest stages in the best of enterprise AI companies like Atomic Work, CloudSec, SpotDraft.
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 1:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I am your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies like Atomic Works, Poddraft, CloudSec, between the US-India corridor. 2 times in the scene
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 1:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US and your corridor.
How Startup’s Should Find REAL Customer Pain w/ 4x Founder Shreesha Ramdas (Lumber)
- ▶ 1:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests at the earliest stages in the best of enterprise AI companies between US and your corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, and SpotDraft.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 0:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alohwalia, your host at Neon Show, and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US-India corridor.
Learn from Silicon Valley’s Best Companies (Hubspot, Google & Salesforce) w/Avanish Sahai
- ▶ 1:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests at the earliest stages in the best of enterprise AI companies between US, India, corridor.
Why Finding Your ‘Rapido Bet’ and Surviving Your ‘Meesho Miss is the Best Job | Pratik & Brij
- ▶ 0:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alouwalia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise SaaS companies and enterprise AI companies, starting from India for the globe, like Atomic… 2 times in the scene
How One Indian Company Powers the World’s Hotels & Airlines | Bhanu Chopra, RateGain
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia This is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise software and AI companies between the US and your corridor, specifically built by second-time founders like…
6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US and your corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, SpotDraft.
How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- ▶ 1:09 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, Spot Draft, CloudSec.
What is Tesla’s Former CIO Building Next? 4 Years Stealth → $4B Company | Jay Vijayan, Tekion
- ▶ 1:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US, India, Corridor, like Atomic Work, Cloud Psych, Spot Draft. 2 times in the scene
With a Swiss Founder-Investor Who Built 9 Startups and Funded 40 | Thomas Dübendorfer
- ▶ 1:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddhartha Luwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US and India corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, and SpotDraft.
- ▶ 7:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And another important thing which NEON Fund and NEON Show Podcast is making an effort toward this, bridging the, the Indian startup ecosystem in
Ola, Flipkart & Swiggy use This $800 Million Software to Send Notifications | Raviteja, MoEngage
- ▶ 1:10 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is your host Siddharth Aluwalia, co-founder of Neon Fund and host of Neon Show podcast. 2 times in the scene
Does Higher GDP Mean Better Jobs, Housing & Income? w/ Economist Prof. Arun Kumar
- ▶ 0:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies built from India for the globe.
Why YOU Should Know About Rajeev Motwani, a Genius Indian-American Professor
- ▶ 1:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies built between US-India corridor. 2 times in the scene
How to Build a Startup in 2025? | Shikhil, Co-Founder Astra Security
- ▶ 0:46 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Neon.
- ▶ 0:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between US, India, Corridor.
- ▶ 51:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'll share a couple of case studies where Astra lent Neon trust. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia One last question that I want to ask you, Shikhal is, uh, uh, what made you choose Neon, uh, and, and how has, you know, the partnership been for you over the last three years? 10 times in the scene
Stories from India’s heartland that tell Different story than GDP headlines |Subroto Bagchi,Mindtree
- ▶ 1:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI and software companies between US, India, Corridor, like Atomic Work, CloudSec, and SpotDraft,…
GPT-5 is NOT Your Competitor It's GPT-7 |Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital | Databricks,Turing, Cohesity
- ▶ 0:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Siddharth Aluwalya, your host at Neon Show, and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies, building between the US-India corridor.
4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- ▶ 1:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today, I'm very grateful and also proud that the founders among Neon portfolio that I'm very, very proud of, and, you know, Neon Fund is super grateful to be invested in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:16 Siddhartha Ahluwalia But before that, I just want to, you know, uh, put, uh, a thought about the Neon partnership, and maybe Kiran, I'll start with you, right? 5 times in the scene
7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija
- ▶ 1:14 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise SaaS and AI companies built out of India serving global markets.
- ▶ 56:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, Kapil, at Neon Fund, we have a lot of, uh, institutions or family offices which are from Europe, uh, you know, from US, uh, and their question is that, you know, hey, Neon has a track record today of investing in companies with the… 2 times in the scene
From 70% Imports to 65% Made in India, India Now Sells Defense Tech to 85+ Countries | Ashok Atluri
- ▶ 1:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Aluwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies building from India for the globe, like Spot Draft, Atomic Work, CloudSec.
From $4.5M for 49% to $700M In The Bank at IPO: Sanjeev & Yashish On 17 Years Of Policybazaar
- ▶ 1:11 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Aluwalia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in earliest stages in the best of enterprise AI companies building from India for the globe.
Sanjeev Sanyal On Why India Has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control
- ▶ 0:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alohwalia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies coming out of India.
Growth, Migration and FDI: The Real Kerala Story with Minister P. Rajeev
- ▶ 1:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise AI companies between the US and India corridor.
What Startups Can Learn from a $1.7B Co. Chief Information Officer | Karthik Chakkarapani
- ▶ 1:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund where we invest in the best of enterprise AI companies between the US and India corridor.
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Aluwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund, where we invest in the best of enterprise AI companies between the US and India corridor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So wasn't that, uh, you know, uh, grateful to my partner, Leibhu in Neon that, you know, because of him, uh, you know, you, Leibhu, Neon, me and an entire Neon team started working together. 10 times in the scene
WHAT Will Decide The Next Superpower? | Raja Manickam | iVP Semiconductor
- ▶ 1:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and also managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invest in best of enterprise AI companies starting out of India, building for the globe.
15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- ▶ 0:46 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Aluwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise software companies starting from India.
- ▶ 15:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think the four, five companies that shut down from neon portfolio overall were only because they couldn't achieve product market fit.
- ▶ 37:23 unnamed speaker And people may come for a prime or a neon or a Stellaris, but you would want people to come chasing, okay, Siddharth Alwalia, I want to raise from Siddharth Alwalia, raise from Naman, right?
- ▶ 1:10:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I have a dream of starting companies, but let's say with Neon's ownership of high ownership and let's say incubating companies. 6 times in the scene
Why Stripe Paid $150M For A Young Indian Startup | Saurya Prakash Sinha, Recko
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner at Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the best of enterprise software companies that start from India and build for the globe.
Why This Founder Won’t Sell Zomato for 10 Years | India’s Top Consumer Tech Bet?
- ▶ 1:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and also managing partner of Neon Fund that invests in the best of enterprise software companies and AI companies coming out of India.
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 1:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Sudhat Alwalia, your host today at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund, where we invest in the best of enterprise software companies built from India for the globe.
- ▶ 14:13 Kushal Bhagia I had a very similar journey to you said that we started all in our, around the same time you launched your second fund and you on, right?
- ▶ 41:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So we, we at neon, we are looking for founders, which again, uh, uh, who can sell a 100,000 dollar ACV deal to customer, but are poor to selling to VCs. 3 times in the scene
$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared
- ▶ 1:07 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund.
Can Neysa be India's AI Cloud alternative to AWS, Azure & Google Cloud? | Sharad Sanghi
- ▶ 1:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund.
- ▶ 33:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What we as Neon Fund believe and where we are investing is, we believe in, in today's world, uh, uh, most of the large models are
How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- ▶ 0:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and co-founder of Neon Fund.
- ▶ 38:50 Siddhartha Ahluwalia They have helped us to take us places, whereas they have zero incentive, right? 3 times in the scene
Lightspeed’s $500M Bet On India With 1/3rd In AI Companies | Dev Khare | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund.
10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- ▶ 1:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alohwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:06 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So I can recall from our first conversation that only Neon and Z-Forty-Seven, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So I consider ourselves whenever I'm traveling for podcasts outside India, or even for our fundraise outside India, since Neon is a US HQ fund, we consider ourselves as embedded of India. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:27 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And in a recent fund, which is Neon Fund III, all of our founders, like the CEOs, they have tech teams in India, but they are ways out of valley.
$200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
- ▶ 1:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Aluwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund.
Zerodha’s Move Into A ₹68 Lakh Cr Industry | CEO Vishal Jain On Expanding India’s 8% Investor Base
- ▶ 0:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and also managing partner of NEON fund. 2 times in the scene
Digi Yatra, AQI, UDAN Scheme, And India's Net Zero Goals | Jayant Sinha | The Neon Show Podcast
- ▶ 1:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show and managing partner of Neon Fund.
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host today at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, one of the leading funds from India in enterprise software spaces globally. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And this is the same reason like why as an investor we like at Neon backing founders who are building for large enterprises because large enterprises humbles you to the core. 6 times in the scene
$600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
- ▶ 2:04 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm also managing partner of Neon Fund. 2 times in the scene
75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
- ▶ 1:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show, and also managing partner of Neon Fund, recognized as among the top three funds in AI in India.
Nvidia’s Success, Chip Race, India’s Semiconductor Mission, & Hardware Vs Software | Raja Manickam
- ▶ 1:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Sudhat Aluwalia, your host today at Neon Show and co-founder of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the most promising enterprise AI software solutions coming out of India and built for the globe.
PM Modi's Childhood, RSS Philosophy, Morbi Disaster, Farm Laws & Article 370 | Dr R Balu | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:30 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I'm your host and also founder of Neon Fund, a B to B SaaS fund that invests in the most enterprising software companies coming out of India at sea stage building for the world.
Ratan Tata’s Inspirational Stories – Former Tata Brand Custodian Shares His Experience | Harish Bhat
- ▶ 2:22 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alualia, your host today at Neon Show, and also co-founder of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in the most enterprising SaaS companies built out of India for the globe.
How I Built A $1B Business | Kirthiga Reddy, Founder, Verix | The Neon Show
- ▶ 1:48 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Hi, this is Siddharth Alwalia, your host at Neon Show, and also co-founder of Neon Fund, a fund that invests in best companies coming out of India in enterprise software space, building AI-first companies globally, and usually by second… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:57 Kirthiga Reddy Putting founders in the spotlight as you do, uh, with Neon, and, um, I'm excited to see your journey and all of the founders that you back.