Nishit Garg
Partner, RTP Global · 1 appearance on the record.
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Nishit Garg leads early-stage venture investments across India and Southeast Asia at RTP Global, backing companies across AI, SaaS, consumer tech, and fintech. Prior to joining RTP Global, he spent over eight years in leadership positions at Flipkart and evaluated Indian tech investments at Tiger Global Management.
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Garg: Only a handful of Indian tech companies exceed $30M–$40M ARR
“A lot of Indian companies are, have started to reach A million to million type of ARRs, but have not a lot of companies beyond a few that you can count on your hands are beyond the 30, forty million ARR today.”
Garg: India will produce more $500M–$1B outcomes than Flipkart-scale mega-exits
“There may not be Flipkart type Many, many, many outcomes in the ecosystem, but there can be a lot more, five hundred million to a billion type outcomes in the country.”
Garg: Seed-stage investing does not require months of due diligence
“You don't require three, four months of work to invest in a seed stage company.”
Garg: VCs will rethink power-law models if profitable $300M–$400M IPOs succeed
“If there is a, you know, there is a series of outcomes of, you know, 305, four hundred million dollars of businesses which have been capital efficient, being profitable from early days and good IPOs. I think the VCs will also start thinking very differently fo…”
Garg: VCs cannot become great investors by playing popularity games
“I think you definitely, one of the biggest mistakes some VCs do is always be really nice to the founders and not tell them what the market realities are or what they're seeing out there. You know, you can't be, you know, be a great VC by being, by playing a po…”
Garg: VC investing has no checklist and relies ultimately on gut calls
“At the end of the day, there is no checklist for a VC. When you invest, when you don't invest, it's a gut call. So yeah, if the gut says no, don't invest.”
Garg: VCs should not invest if unwilling to put in personal wealth
“And I think one big checklist, or I would say a question that whenever I invest, I talk to myself, will I be okay to, you know, invest a significant personal wealth into this company? If your answer is no, just don't invest.”
Garg: Indian SaaS needs founder relocation and local hires for US sales
“When an Indian company is expanding there, first of all, one of the, we believe that one of the founders needs to be there to really do that. You can't, and you also need to hire some people from the ecosystem who bring along some relationships with you and yo…”
Garg: Indian SaaS startups still lack a clear US sales playbook
“The art of selling is still to be figured out. I think for, I think SaaS from India has still not seen that type. There are a few success stories, obviously Freshworks, some of the Postman, some of these have been good stories for the ecosystem, but SAS India …”
Garg: Flipkart's first Big Billion Day was Indian e-commerce's inflection point
“The first big billion day happened, which was a great event for the country, humbling experience because while it met its numbers, but a customer experience wasn't great on but it was the inflection point for Indian e-commerce. The first big billion day after …”
Garg: Many tech startups are actively redomiciling back to India
“As we speak, a lot of companies are moving back you know, domiciling back to India as well.”
Garg: Rising domestic IPOs provide definitive exit multiples for Indian tech
“In the last three, four years, this macro trend of tech startups looking at India for IPOs that has increased. So that gives some definitive benchmarks on evaluations, exit multiples, all of those, that is one.”
Garg: Increased regulation in India turned gray areas black-and-white
“While there has been regulation, a lot of regulation, especially in FinTech, sometimes in some other sectors as well, but it has also A lot of areas were probably gray. I'd say, you know, five, six years back today, they are black and white. So I think it give…”
Garg: Indian tech-enabled operational businesses take 10 to 15 years to scale
“So in tech enabled operations business, India definitely takes time from that. And we as investors understand that when we invest in such businesses, we know it's not a five year business. It's a 10, 12, 15 year business as such”
Garg: Flipkart founders refused to penalize 98% of users over 2% return abuse
“When we even started the returns policy, there you always have people who abuse such policies on the platform. The founders were very, very clear for two percent cases. We will not, you know, penalize 98%. We want to give them you know, best experience out the…”
Garg: Proving a liquid tech IPO market by 2030 makes India #1
“And for that a good, thriving, liquid IPO market Is very, very important for tech startups. I think that's, we believe, I, and like at RTP, we believe this is the thing that till 2030, if it gets proven, then in India, like, then there's no stopping the countr…”
Garg: India's top Series A funds hold competing bets in same sectors
“Today, if you look at the top eight, 10 funds, say series of funds in the country, all of them would have a similar bet in the same sector, right? Say in FinTech, they will all of them have a SME lending bit in everybody will have a B to B commerce, but everyb…”
Garg: VC checklists are commoditized; success through Series C depends on founders
“And then that C checklist, everybody has, what is the time, you know, what is the margin structure of the industry? What type of, I think that is very, very a commoditized I would say view but I think it comes down to the way founders it comes down to founders…”
Garg: Flipkart's 2013 customer experience standard is now commoditized
“What Flipkart was offering in 2013 is a, is commoditized today. That next day delivery people, we are talking about quick commerce now, right?”
Garg: RTP Global made its first EV investment without consensus
“When we did our first foray into EV, one of the days that we did, it was something that it was first, nobody had done that in the fund ever. We did not have a great thesis by the, that point of time as well, but we really liked the founder and what he was buil…”
Garg: DeHaat founder Shashank Kumar created the Indian agritech TAM
“I gave an example of Dehat Shashank has been as a founder, he always believed in, but if you start with the TAM of people today who are willing to work with a platform like that, it was very, very small. He really created the TAM in Indian Agri.”
Garg: Second-time founders win seed rounds, first-time founders win Series A/B
“So the second time founders, you've already seen them do something so they can raise, as we've seen, second time founders raise huge seed rounds. First time founders, if they do well, raise better series A and B.”
Garg: SaaS can reach $5M–$10M ARR via PLG without big sales engines
“If you take about SaaS, if you are operating in the US customer base in US, if again, your product solves a basic need by PLG motion or some, you know, very early sales without building a huge sales engine, you can reach that, you know, 5,000,007, at times, te…”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg | Jul 20, 2024 | 51m |