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Samriddh Tilwani

Samriddh Tilwani

·Jul 27, 2022

Why we invested in Big Bang Food Tech!

The 750 million Indians using a smartphone crave everything right from pickles to cotton candy. Lockdown peaked our cravings and made them more pronounced. Sometimes it was Pav Bhaji from Mumbai’s Sharmaji, Rajma Chawal from Delhi’s Sitaram, or Rosogolla from Kolkata’s Chittaranjan. Unfortunately, these restaurants had only one or two…

Artha Venture Fund

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Why we invested in Big Bang Food Tech!
Why we invested in Big Bang Food Tech!
Artha Venture Fund

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Gauri Kuchhal

Gauri Kuchhal

·Apr 9, 2021

Mentoring Women Founders in the 21st Century

AVF Principal Gauri Kuchhal sheds light on the importance of suitable mentorship Reminiscing her start in the year 2008, Gauri speaks that, When I started my career in investment banking, it was a male-dominated industry. As the only female analyst in the firm, I did receive guidance from some quarters…

Female Founders

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Mentoring Women Founders in the 21st Century
Mentoring Women Founders in the 21st Century
Female Founders

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Artha Venture Fund PR

Artha Venture Fund PR

·Nov 6, 2020

Why we invested in HobSpace

A few days ago, Artha Venture Fund announced its investment in child-activity startup HobSpace. With this being our ninth portfolio, AVF looks forward to ending the year on a high. Our Managing Partner, Anirudh Damani, talks about our decision to invest in Hobspace, where we led the seed round of ₹3.50 crores. — In continuation of our “Why we invested” series, we are back again to answer your queries on our latest investment in HobSpace.

Venture Capital

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Why We invested in HobSpace
Why We invested in HobSpace
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Artha Venture Fund PR

Artha Venture Fund PR

·Oct 20, 2020

Artha Venture Fund leads Seed round for kids-activity startup HobSpace

Artha Venture Fund (AVF), an early-stage micro-VC fund, has led the Seed round investment for HobSpace by investing ₹1.6 crores. HobSpace is a unique platform for extra-curricular activities online and offline for kids between 3–14 years. …

Funding

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Artha Venture Fund leads Seed round for kids-activity startup HobSpace
Artha Venture Fund leads Seed round for kids-activity startup HobSpace
Funding

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Gauri Kuchhal

Gauri Kuchhal

·Sep 25, 2020

Baby’s Cry or Coffers Ringing?

An Insight into the booming Babytech industry! With 51 births each minute, India is the world’s largest child producing nation and has the rare distinction of a country with the maximum number of children households around the globe! India is on its way to overtake China as the most populous…

Venture Capital

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Baby’s Cry or Coffers Ringing
Baby’s Cry or Coffers Ringing
Venture Capital

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Anirudh A Damani

Anirudh A Damani

·Sep 24, 2020

You don’t raise venture capital to play it “safe”

Yesterday, I was on a pitch call with a consumer brand creating a niche in a mass-market commodity with strong incumbents. Their legacy product-buying customers are looking for a change. …

Venture Capital

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You don’t raise venture capital to play it “safe”
You don’t raise venture capital to play it “safe”
Venture Capital

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Anirudh A Damani

Anirudh A Damani

·Sep 22, 2020

How India Shops Online

As a consumer-facing startup, where should you invest your marketing rupees? Google AdWords? Social media marketing? TV ads? WhatsApp? SMS blasts? Video? You will say ‘video’ if you read the How India Shops Online report prepared by Arpan Sheth and Shyam Unnikrishnan, partners at Bain & Company. …

Online Shopping

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How India Shops Online
How India Shops Online
Online Shopping

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Anirudh A Damani

Anirudh A Damani

·Sep 18, 2020

Founders, leave the Legal Jousting for later (rounds)

If a man gets known by the startup he keeps, then a founder should be known by their legal professionals. …

Entrepreneurship

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Founders, leave the Legal Jousting for later (rounds)
Founders, leave the Legal Jousting for later (rounds)
Entrepreneurship

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Anirudh A Damani

Anirudh A Damani

·Aug 25, 2020

Negative gross margins can bury your startup

In my last blog on gross margins, I had written about the importance of gross profits for a startup to survive in any business environment — especially black swan events like COVID. It did not end there. Throughout my 5+ month WFH stint, a question keeps me obsessed, i.e., …

Startup

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Negative gross margins can bury your startup
Negative gross margins can bury your startup
Startup

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Artha Venture Fund PR

Artha Venture Fund PR

·Aug 17, 2020

Daalchini raises ₹5 crore in Pre-Series A round, Artha Venture Fund leads it

Daalchini, an IoT-enabled physical and digital vending machines startup, raised Rs 5 crore in the Pre-Series A round led by Artha Venture Fund (AVF). …

Artha Venture Fund

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Daalchini raises ₹5 Crore in Pre-Series A round, lead by Artha Venture Fund
Daalchini raises ₹5 Crore in Pre-Series A round, lead by Artha Venture Fund
Artha Venture Fund

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Anirudh A Damani

Anirudh A Damani

85x Startups invested in, 44x ScubaDives, 3x Founder, 1x VC Fund Manager. A 6-foot man with a 30,000 ft goal🏔️ AMA: showmedamani.com/ama

Sandesha Jaitapkar

Sandesha Jaitapkar

niche: KEEP IT REAL

Samriddh Tilwani

Samriddh Tilwani

Head of Corporate Communications for the Artha Group of Companies.

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