Shah: Fintech and healthtech never lose investor interest despite market cycles
Mitesh Shah · Mitesh Shah from being a CFO at Ola & BookMyShow to start Inflection Point Ventures · Mar 30, 2021 · at 12:06
Mitesh Shah, co-founder of Inflection Point Ventures, discusses sector trends in early-stage investing and why he was bullish on BharatPe.
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“FinTech along with health tech probably are the only two sectors which never loses investors fancy.”
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