Stellaris Venture Partners
33 statements across 7 episodes · 20 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2020 by Rahul Chowdhri · said 68 times in 15 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (50), Sridhar Taluwalia (4), Alok Goyal (3), Varun Alagh (1), Rohit Anand (1), Prayank Swaroop (1), Kanwaljit Singh (1), Bhaskar Ghosh (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 1 episode
2025 25 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- $600M AUM, 44 Bets, and a 30x Return Unicorn: Stellaris Venture Partners on Picking Winners Early
- 15 Years Of Investing Lessons In 75 Minutes With Prime Ventures and Stellaris Partners | Neon Show
- What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 4 mentions in 1 episode
2023 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- Top SaaS startups to watch in 2023 with Alok Goyal, Investor in Whatfix, LimeChat, GTM Buddy
- How they built a $600M SaaS Company? Ft. Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu - Co-founders, Whatfix
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Mfine founder on Healthcare Technology and Tele-medicine in India ft. Prasad Kompalli @mfinecare
- @mamaearthindia1509 Founders on D2C growth, ft. Ghazal & Varun Alagh
- Dilipkumar Khandelwal on building a strong portfolio of B2B SaaS companies as an Angel Investor
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 11 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Stellaris Venture Partners, oldest first
Oct 13, 2020 positive
Oct 13, 2020
D2C brands need high margins, AOV, and frequent purchases to succeed
“We needed to find areas where things can be sold online both on these commerce platform and also direct to consumer through your own website. And that meant two things. One is high gross margin and good enough EOV so that you can make money on every order. The…”
Oct 13, 2020 bullish
Oct 13, 2020 bullish
Mar 22, 2021
Mar 21, 2022 positive
Rohit Anand discloses LP investments in YourNest, Pi Ventures, Stellaris, and Sixth Sense
“I am an angel investor in, for example, your nest one, two, your nest one, three five ventures right. A fund, a mixed fund, like Stellaris you know, fund two, which is between consumer and tech, right? The only consumer, large consumer fund where I'm an LP is …”
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Jan 9, 2023 neutral
Jan 9, 2023 neutral
Goyal: SaaS market premiums only reward category leaders and top followers
“Even in SAS, you will find that in every category, there is like a massive market leader, which will be the outlier, 40, 50, 60% market share. There'll be two or three others, anywhere between 10 to 20, 30% kind of market share, and then there's a long tail. A…”
Jan 9, 2023 neutral
Goyal: VCs are just capital conduits, not world-changers
“We are actually just a conduit for the money supply chain. It's somebody else's money goes to somebody else. We just happened to put our signatures on that checkbook. We think we change the world. We don't. It's clearly the entrepreneurs who change the world a…”
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Goyal: Founders succeed through exceptional spikes rather than lack of flaws
“At least we believe, Siddharth, that there is no perfect founder. There is no perfect human being, actually. And people succeed despite their flaws. People succeed because there is some spike that they have that actually covers up for all their flaws. So, our …”
Jan 9, 2023 neutral
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Goyal: Whatfix would have died if they followed most of my advice
“You know, if WhatFix had listened to most things I had said, I think they'll be dead five years back. The reason they're successful is because they apply their own judgment, and I'm not saying that everything I've said was wrong, but we sit at a distance.”
Jun 5, 2024 positive
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Banglani: One-off late-stage investments increase portfolio risk and hurt LP fundraising
“We can't have a one-off late stage investment in our portfolio because it increases the risk. It makes fundraising harder. And of course that is not our area of expertise either. So we have said no to those kinds of opportunities.”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Goyal: Stellaris approves roughly 80% of deals brought to its investment committee
“Usually about 80% or so, maybe three out of four or four out of five actually do sail through in our case, which is, which goes back to the principle that by and large, we want to back the conviction of the deal team.”
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Feb 14, 2025 negative
Goyal: Venture deals should never require consensus or allow individual vetoes
“We do not believe consensus is a great way to make decisions for venture deals. We also believe that nobody should have a veto. No single individual is so smart. Across sectors that they know what the world will look like in eight to 10 years data suggests tha…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Goyal: Stellaris enforces strict sector boundaries for its investment team
“We took a call right at the beginning that we will be organized by sectors. And these are fairly hard gated boundaries of sectors. If I do SAS, then I do SAS. When I find a FinTech deal, I'm actually going to send it to him. I'm not going to do that because qu…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Goyal: Stellaris expanded Fund 2 past its hard cap for strategic LPs
“There were some very high quality LPs that were keen on coming in the fund. We talked to our existing LPs as well. And collectively, we all felt that the fund will be a lot stronger by having them as part of the platform than not having them. So we ended up ex…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Banglani: Stellaris Sees Over 90% of Relevant Indian Market Deals
“When we started, our coverage ratio was about 55%. So we were seeing roughly half of the deals that were happening in the market at the right time. And I'm quite proud of the fact that for the last three years, that coverage ratio for us has been more than 90%…”
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Banglani: Six Stellaris portfolio companies crossed $1M ARR in under a year
“I started in venture in 2007, in that 2007 through 11 period, when we used to build projections for our portfolio companies, we would project them to get to, we would project that they would get to a million dollars in annualized revenue in three to four years…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Banglani: VCs should focus on controllable input metrics rather than DPI
“DPI is an output variable Siddharth. We don't really measure ourselves on the on the output that's for our LPs to do. That's for the market to do. We measure ourselves on our ability to attract the best entrepreneurs to ourselves. So, and we try to measure tha…”
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Stellaris has led rounds where existing investors refused to reinvest
“There are multiple companies in our portfolio, which had existing investors in the company. They decided not to Put more money behind those companies and despite their signaling, we have actually come and led the rounds in those companies also.”
Jul 7, 2026
Senpaty: Propelld pitched roughly 100 investors before landing early venture rounds
“This is the first time we raised venture. We've spoken to close to a hundred investors probably during that time. So yeah, both during the IQ and Stellaris time and even before that as well. Together we would have spoken to a hundred.”