Orios Venture Partners

“We looked in 2016, we looked at 4083 power points. We met over a thousand of them to invest in Ford.”

“No, no, we prefer only first time entrepreneurs. We can't afford the valuation of the second time entrepreneurs. They're just too high.”

“None of us, you know seed funds have discovered a unicorn. Ever in these spaces, right? So if you look at you know, our good friends Karthik at Bloom, Orias, Rehan, none of us have so far got a unicorn, right?”

“The actual cost or the margins of the product, which is a medicine was extremely high upwards of, you know, 75, 65, 75%. And a large part of that value was being cornered by the unorganized players of stock is distributors and various middlemen.”

“We have tended to sort of stay away from SaaS businesses in the past because we couldn't you know do due diligence on customers overseas. And therefore we kind of stayed away from that. We felt that it was too early in that space.”

“Nearly all our companies, the founders have taken salary cuts. They have also asked their teams to take cuts wherever necessary. You know, non-essential expenditure has been completely curbed.”

“So what they especially started to do was stop the dispersals immediately and started taking a very careful look at their existing portfolio of borrowers and stayed in touch with them to work out and figure out as to what was the risk on that portfolio for fut…”

“Some of the companies have even taken calls of reducing their office space and moving 20 to 30% of their employees permanently on a work from home basis.”