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Shripati Acharya

Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners · 5 appearances on the record.

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Shripati Acharya is a managing partner at Prime Venture Partners, an Indian early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to investing, he co-founded photo service Snapfish and mobile PoS company Ezetap, and worked with UIDAI on India's Aadhaar project.

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3 predictions · 2 assertions · 2 opinions · 7 insights · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Shripati argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
India's 6% growth rate is the highest among large global economies
“I think our economy and the basic foundations are very robust, you know, somewhere around six percent growth rate, which is the largest highest for any large economy.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 2:07 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP

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Everything Shripati Acharya said on the Neon Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
India has the best payment rails in the world, hands down
“But we have the best payment rails in the world. Hands down. Instant Payments, costless, from any to any, person to person, business to business, business to consumer, et cetera, and an adoption of it, which is really unprecedented.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 47:36 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Opinion
Acharya: Predictable and Repeatable VC Exits in India Remain Unproven
“The things which I would say as a private market venture investor, which people are still have question marks on, is around liquidity and exits. So, of course, part, ah, limited partners who are investing money in India want to have a view of when they are goi…”
Shripati Acharya Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 4:26 Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
Insight
Acharya: Flawed market sizing is the primary reason early-stage startups fail
“And what happens typically is that the overwhelming reason why a particular company does, you know, doesn't end up doing well is that some of your assumptions around the size of the market do not work out. I would say that just happens to be the overwhelming I…”
Shripati Acharya Jun 23, 2024 ▶ 54:17 Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
Insight
Digitization creates startup opportunities by formalizing India's informal economy
“The fact that a lot of the economy is getting formalized is like as if the water level is coming down. So even if the growth was not there, we'll actually see in terms of business opportunities, a lot of the economy getting formalized, becoming more visible as…”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 2:49 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Insight
Monthly VC check-ins offer founders general platitudes, not meaningful help
“And you cannot help a company if you actually are just meeting once a month. I mean, that's just our belief. And so if you intend to support, then you need to have more context. Otherwise, it just becomes more platitudes and general gyan.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 18:31 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Insight
VCs raise Fund 1 on partners, Fund 2 on founders, Fund 3 on returns
“He said that your first fund is raised on the reputation of the partners. The second fund is raised on your reputation of your founders. And the third fund is raised on the performance of the funds.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 21:19 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Insight
High partner engagement is incompatible with large VC portfolio sizes
“The thing is that you cannot both say I'm going to be, Highly engaged with the company, understand it, have the bandwidth from all the partners, and work closely, and help with the fundraise, and have a lot of companies. I mean, it just is a inconsistent parad…”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 28:25 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Insight
Standalone digital wallets make no sense if bank transfers are seamless
“Wallets on their own don't make sense, because the bank account is the wallet, if you can take money in and out of it, you know, seamlessly.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 33:00 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Assertion Supported
India's 6% growth rate is the highest among large global economies
“I think our economy and the basic foundations are very robust, you know, somewhere around six percent growth rate, which is the largest highest for any large economy.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 2:07 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Insight
Seeking work-life balance only outside of work hours is flawed
“Saying that, okay, I will do eight hours of work, and then I'll go outside and get balance. Is actually unbalanced, I think, because I think what you are working on should be something which you are both happy about, which you think has got purpose, and which …”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 5:42 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Disclosure
Prime VP invested in just seven companies from its inaugural $8M fund
“Yeah, we did seven companies. Actually, we're very concentrated, as you know, and we continue to be a concentrated fund, which is a different topic we can discuss perhaps.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 11:36 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Disclosure
Prime VP founders took no fund fees for their first 12 months
“So we actually didn't even take any expenses from drawdown from the fund because we felt like we need to actually invest before we can justify having fund expenses.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 12:49 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Web3 games funded in the 2020-2022 boom will launch in 2023-2024
“We need to understand that games take two to three years to build. And a lot of games have been funded in 2020, 21, 22, with very high quality teams. And so in 23 and 24, we'll start seeing all of these come into the market.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 42:21 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Prediction Not checkable as stated
The India-to-global SaaS opportunity will outpace the domestic market
“I feel that the India to global opportunity will be bigger, both in horizontal and vertical SaaS.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 49:56 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Prediction Not checkable as stated
More Indian tech companies will be ready for IPOs by early 2024
“So my, ah, belief is that towards the end of this year and early next, ah, we should actually see a lot more of companies which are ready to go public.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 57:22 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Disclosure
Prime VP meets with its active portfolio companies on a weekly basis
“We met our companies very regularly. It's weekly. We continue to do that with our active companies now, now as well.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 18:47 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Disclosure
Prime VP secured full commitments for its $45M Fund 2 in months
“Those funds, I think it took, ah, I would say by the time we had, ah, commitments fully would have taken four to six months.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 23:38 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Disclosure
Prime VP raised $70M for Fund 3 and $120M for Fund 4
“And then the fund three was 70 grand of million. That's correct. Of current fund one 20. One 20. So it's been a great ride, right? Eight, 45. 70 and 70 I also believe would have taken 10 companies. Yeah, it's about, it's closer to 15. Closer to 15 and the curr…”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 30:08 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Assertion Supported
Web3 gaming platform Glip surpassed one million monthly active users
“And they have a million plus, a million you know, monthly active users, users who are now exposed to these web three games”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 40:35 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP
Disclosure
Prime VP did only one extra deal above normal pace in 2021
“So we are also impacted by the craze to actually invest, but with not much. So we probably did one extra deal than we would normally have.”
Shripati Acharya May 5, 2023 ▶ 52:34 Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya of Prime VP

The other half of the tape: Shripati Acharya's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 127 times in 110 episodes on the Neon Show. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (5)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Jun 23, 2024 10m
Startup Investing ft. India's One of TOP SaaS Entrepreneurs & Investors Shripati Acharya o May 5, 2023 44m
DROPPING OUT Of College To Building India's Leading CYBER SECURITY Company ft. Rahul Sasi Apr 4, 2022 59s
Building a Generational Company That's Changing the Way Legal Services are Delivered Feb 28, 2022 34s
Creating TIMELESS MARKETING CAMPAIGNS & Building An ICONIC BRAND! ft. Karan Shroff@unacade Feb 21, 2022 59s

Played on the show (2)

Episodes where a recording of Shripati Acharya was played rather than Shripati taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

EpisodeDateOn tapeWhat it is
Building a 1000 Crore+ Business | Journey of GeeksForGeeks ft Founder Sandeep Jain Jun 7, 2022 33s clip played
Cricketer To Building A $8M ARR Security SaaS Platform! ft. Ashish Tandon, Founder & CEO, Apr 11, 2022 34s clip played
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