SAIF backed an early Indian TV streaming startup in 2011 that failed
Mayank Khanduja · When your competitors raise heavily from VC's | Mayank Khanduja, SAIF Partners · Aug 20, 2019 · at 9:28
Mayank Khanduja, Partner at SAIF Partners, discusses how premature timing caused an Indian streaming video portfolio company to fail.
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“One of the investments that didn't work well for us in the content space we had invested in a company which was into video streaming of content which was on TV. So it was, You could say a very early version of Hulu, but for Indian content. We had invested in them in 20 11 and by the time the data the data revolution came along, they had run out of capital and they did not exist when users had started consuming a lot of video content.”
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