Kandanchatha works one day weekly with his pre-seed portfolio companies
Dinesh Kandanchatha · EP 518: See 20 deals, invest in 2 between $75k-150k pre seed, likes b2b saas for investments · Dec 24, 2016 · at 6:15
Angel investor Dinesh Kandanchatha details his operating model of dedicating one day per week for 6 to 9 months to help pre-seed founders prepare for institutional funding.
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“I'm pre-Series A, often pre-seed, and what I'm trying to do there is Take my capital and amplify it with my network and my experience. So you need to take 75 K Worth of capital, but then I'm working with you. I'm putting a day into your business and a day a week, and the goal would be for six to nine months to work with you to really scale that up and then bring a deterministic business model to an institutional investor with upside so that they could go in and get you your one to two to three million in your, you know, your seed round or your series A, and then I can step away, hire my fire myself, hire my replacement, and You guys can go, the founder can go build a, hopefully you know, an eight figure business.”
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