Sheel Mohnot

Co-Founder & General Partner, Better Tomorrow Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Sheel Mohnot is a co-founder and General Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, an early-stage fintech fund. He previously led 500 Fintech and has been an active angel investor and podcast panelist.

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Opinion
Mohnot: Prior banking experience is often a negative signal for fintech founders
“And in fact, it's probably generally seen as a negative signal if they have worked at a bank. Not always, but many times.”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 28:34 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mohnot: 2010–2012 VC fund returns will be tough to replicate
“You think about those vintage years from a fund perspective, that's 2010, 11, 12. Those are the best years of venture and it'll be tough to replicate going forward.”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 24:02 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mohnot: Marketplaces and vertical SaaS businesses will become fintech companies
“What we mean is many companies in the future will be FinTech companies and specifically, especially companies that are marketplaces or vertical SaaS businesses. If you have distribution and you have a data advantage, you can layer in other stuff like lending, …”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 15:09 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Opinion
Mohnot: 2012 YC batches were higher quality and one-tenth today's size
“Like, you know, at the time, the YC demo days were one 10th the size that they are today, and the quality was higher.”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 23:43 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Assertion Partly supported
Mohnot: Majority of Shark Tank deals never actually close
“What they depict is not the reality of venture capital. And the majority of the companies that get funded on the show don't actually get funded, all sorts of issues.”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 5:09 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Insight
Mohnot: Relentless execution fails without a sufficiently large market
“You can be relentless in a small market and It still won't do that well. So I think, you know, ultimately you have to be able to build into a larger market”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 9:12 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Opinion
Mohnot: India’s government pioneered global digital infrastructure with UPI and Aadhaar
“Yeah, it's really cool, you know, what the government has done in India and UPI, Aadhaar these are all really smart things that the Indian government has pioneered for the rest of the world, and it'll be interesting to see where else these things happen. Hones…”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 18:52 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC
Assertion Partly supported
Mohnot: Kiva has deployed several billion dollars in 0% interest loans
“And, you know, through that, through the course of Kiva, we've done several billion dollars of loans, all at zero percent interest.”
Sheel Mohnot Aug 3, 2020 ▶ 1:37 Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech VC

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Sheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures on his journey from Fintech Entrepreneur to Fintech Aug 3, 2020 20m
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