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YourNest Venture Fund

also referred to as: yournest

16 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 15, 2019 by Girish Shivani · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Aug 15, 2019 positive
Insight
Shivani: Second-time founders are always better because they learned from past mistakes
“Second time is always better because they have either become very successful, or they have learnt at somebody else's cost.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 21:39 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019
Disclosure
Shivani: YourNest requires unanimous consensus among all five partners to invest
“So in our case, the entrepreneur has to meet actually all five of us and it is a unanimous decision to invest or not invest. It is not a democracy that we run, right? So if we agree to invest, then all of us have to agree to invest.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 22:30 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 neutral
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Shivani: YourNest rejects single founders, pre-revenue, and outsourced tech
“So for example, we don't do single founders. We don't do since we invest in technology, we don't invest in companies where technology is outsourced and there is no co-founder on the technology side. We don't do pre-revenue. We don't do brick and mortar. We don…”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 14:15 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019
Disclosure
Shivani: YourNest Pitched 1,000 Prospects for 140 Fund 1 LPs
“When we started in 2012 I must have knocked a thousand doors to get the 140 investors that I got.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 18:54 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019
Assertion Supported
Shivani: Raising YourNest's first venture fund took 3.5 years
“It took us three and a half years to reach the first one.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 9:19 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shivani: YourNest responded to all 17,000 pitch emails over seven years
“I would have seen about 17,000 opportunities in the last seven years. I would have responded to every one of them. I means my team, your nest would have responded to every one of them. That's the process we built.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 16:46 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Shivani: YourNest Fund I has a 75% portfolio survival rate
“Today, our survival rate is about 75%.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 7:52 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Shivani: A leadership coach holds the only veto power on YourNest's IC
“Sanjay who's you know, who I told you was an executive coach and leadership development guy is the only guy who sits on the IC who has a veto power. So we will actually walk away from opportunities which Sanjay says are not, you know, people are not with banki…”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 13:27 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Shivani: YourNest Passed on Power2SME's $2M Round
“Power to SME came to us through Inventus when Narayanan was raising, I think, a two million dollar round. But it was pre-revenue, you know, and you know, even though he was a second-time entrepreneur we were not sure how that model would scale up. And he was r…”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 27:43 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019
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Shivani: Only three of YourNest's 20 portfolio companies are pure consumer plays
“Out of the 20 companies we have across to come, to put two funds we have only three plays which are pure consumer plays.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 6:46 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 bullish
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Shivani: Four of YourNest's Last Five Investments Included Hardware
“Four out of last five investments, we did have a hardware element. The two we are doing now also has a hardware element.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 30:57 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019
Disclosure
Shivani: YourNest takes at least 12 weeks from initial outreach to fund disbursement
“From the day you write to us to a term sheet is anywhere between six to eight weeks, if not more. And from a term sheet to a dispersal is another 10 to 12 weeks, depending on what is your readiness on the, you know, from our due diligence perspective. So it's,…”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 23:23 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Shivani: YourNest deal flow surged from 50 to nearly 1,000 quarterly opportunities
“When we started, we used to get about 50 opportunities every quarter to look at. Today we get close to a thousand, you know.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 4:06 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Shivani: India has around 40 pre-Series A tech venture funds
“We were, as I said, the third or the fourth fund in the country doing this. Today there are about, 40 of us who are actually doing pre-series A tech and tech investments.”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 4:22 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Aug 15, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Shivani: YourNest condensed 174 diligence variables down to 10
“When we were starting to build out YourNest, we realized that there were about 174 variables that one had to look at to basically get to a go, no-go situation from an investment perspective. We then very quickly realized that 174 is not happening, so we kind o…”
Girish Shivani Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 12:31 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 6 | Girish Shivani, Co-founder and Partner at Yournest Venture Fund
Mar 21, 2022 positive
Disclosure
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 …”
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