Rajan Anandan

5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2019 by Rajan Anandan · said 23 times in 14 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (6), Prukalpa Sankar (3), Avlesh Singh (3), Vijay Rayapati (2), Kunal Khattar (2), Ishaan Mittal (2), Viral Bajaria (1), Shanti Mohan (1)

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Aug 20, 2019 positive
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Anandan: More than half of personal angel investments are in SaaS
“In fact, if you look at my angel portfolio, more than half, half my investments are actually in SaaS companies, right?”
Rajan Anandan Aug 20, 2019 ▶ 5:29 50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
Aug 20, 2019 positive
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Anandan: Dunzo was operating purely on WhatsApp when I first invested
“For instance, you know Dunzo, where I was the first investor you know, when I funded them, they were basically a WhatsApp. They were using WhatsApp to help people in Bangalore kind of get things around them, right? And now today, when you look at it, it's beco…”
Rajan Anandan Aug 20, 2019 ▶ 22:08 50 Unicorns and 19 IPOs, Rajan Anandan from Peak XV on investing in CRED, Meesho, Groww & Mamaearth
Oct 3, 2019 positive
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Khattar: AdvantEdge co-invests frequently with Sachin Bhatia and Rajan Anandan
“We've done a number of deals with the with Sachin Bhatia, the ex-founder of Make My Trip, current founder of Bulbul. We've done a number of deals with Rajan Anandan in his angel hat. He shares a number of good quality deal flow with us.”
Kunal Khattar Oct 3, 2019 ▶ 28:18 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
Dec 13, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guglani: Vijay Shekhar Sharma was the first check in Morpheus's third fund
“Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the first guy to give us a check. Rajan was there, Rajan and then Bloom, India Push and Ganesh, all of our LPs, previous ones, they repeated, they brought their friends.”
Sameer Guglani Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 15:59 Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani
Mar 15, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Ahluwalia: Sam Altman told Indian founders not to attempt competing with OpenAI
“Two years ago, Sam Altman came to India. Rajan and then asked him question, can a startup from India compete with open AI? He said, it's not possible. Don't even attempt it.”
Siddhartha Ahluwalia Mar 15, 2025 ▶ 30:11 $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
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