Kunal Kapoor, co-founder of Indian crowdfunding platform Ketto, discusses the platform's fundraising velocity and operational scale with host Siddharth Ahluwalia.
“In the last three, three and a half years, we've gone, gone from how much we were raising in a year. We were raising that in a month. Now we're raising that in a week.”
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Kapoor: Indians are inherently charitable when given streamlined online giving options
“Our belief is that Indians are actually very charitable. It's just that we give in very different ways. And if we meet that something that was streamlined and we bought that online, then you would see a lot more Indians coming forward and doing charity.”
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Kapoor: Ketto broke even in mid-2019 and has remained profitable since
“A profitable venture. We broke even about, A year and a half back, and we've been profitable ever since.”
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Kapoor: Investors and HNIs are highly responsive to celebrity startup founders
“Your accessibility to people that are important whether they're investors or whether they're NGOs or they're, you know, H and I's, it becomes much easier because I think you know, as an actor, when you call somebody and say, look, I'm trying to start something…”
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Kapoor: Building a tech startup with a celebrity partner is like steroids
“Building a tech company is like bodybuilding. You know, it takes a lot of effort and hard work, but building a tech company with a celebrity is like bodybuilding on steroids. It just happens a lot quicker.”
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Kapoor: Medical bills have pushed 200 million Indians into debt
“It's estimated that some two hundred million people have been pushed into debts only because of their medical bills.”
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Kapoor: Ketto plans to expand into healthcare and medical products
“We're also looking at it as a medical solution company, health solution company, building products in that area.”
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