Guglani: All Morpheus Fund 1 investors profited and still hold equity
Sameer Guglani · Supermorpheus, India’s first community driven fund ft. Sameer Guglani · Dec 13, 2021 · at 15:36
Sameer Guglani, founder of Indian startup accelerator Morpheus, discusses the financial returns of their initial 95-lakh seed fund.
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“All of them who invested in our first fund actually made a, have already made a decent amount of money and there is still equity left in that.”
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