Why is it named Peak XV? Are there 15 partners in SEA? 🤔

Growth Manager

Software Engineer

Private Equity

Now time for grapevine founders to do some fraud. 
 Parampara continue reheni chahiye

Product Manager

Looool, Debhargya just announced on LinkedIn :p geuss we can't abuse them here now?

Brand Marketing Manager

With a graveyard of troublesome startups!

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

With a graveyard of troublesome start-ups!

Peak XV to invest in grapevine?

Peak XV to invest in grapevine?- Grapevine

Exclusive: Peak XV acquires over 21% stake in Grapevine

Program Manager

https://entrackr.com/2023/10/exclusive-peak-xv-acquires-over-21-stake-in-grapevine/

Grapevine received funding 🎊

Technical Director

Anonymous social media platform Grapevine has raised its seed round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India).

Peak XV acquires 21% stake in Grapevine!

Did sequoia have an ownership target? How does your team and you feel post the funding? What can we expect as a next step? How soon will the monetisation bug kick in?

https://entrackr.com/2023/10/exclusive-peak-xv-acquires-over-21-stake-in-grapevine/

Grapevine funding analysis

Product Owner

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

It announced fundrise from peakXV (previously Sequoia).

From what I can deduce, they diluted a bit too much. But, I hope that the founding team makes a good one from this!

Cheers Michael bhai!

Badhai ho grapevine!

As reports suggest that grapevine is raising money from Peak Fifteen (previously Sequoia), will they allow negative posts about their portfolio companies on the platform?

Peak Fifteen has a record of controlling the media narratives for their portfolio companies before, hope they don't kill this platform!

A thought on grapevine 💭

This platform is now gonna scale, but isn’t 21% too much? Thoughts pls.

PeakXV holds over 21% of Grapevine

Congratulations Grapevine team.. Finally, they raised funding from Peak XV Partners.. Time to DM founders for a job 😂

Grapevine Raised Funding 💸💸

Equity Research

Looks like the Grapevine is growing

Data Scientist

VC with 5+ yrs of exp - AMA

Community Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I have 3 years of experience in frontend. I usually look for jobs by creating profile on Naukri and expecting calls from recruiters. Also, I apply directly on company portals.

My question to the grapevine community is how should I find good companies?

What I usually do is search up great places to work list or top tech companies on G2. I also apply based on LinkedIn jobs / posts about openings and from Instahyre and Wellfound. Sometimes I do ask for referrals.

Is there any other ways to look up on good tech companies? What do other grapeviners do?

Job Search

startups like grapevine?

Classplus is falling apart. The CTO, CBO and VP-Business have resigned from the company amidst rumours around financial irregularities. Classplus now joins a long list of Indian startups caught amidst fraud/financial irregularities allegations. Classplus was last valued $600Mn in their last funding round and counts Tiger Global, Falcon Edge, Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India) as their investors.

Classplus is going belly up. Big news to come out soon.

Founder

Project Manager

The startup is Accel and Elevation backed. 

The company raised seed funding because the founder and team is from IIT- Kharagpur, and Accel + Elevation have people from IIT-Kharagpur working in their team. 

The founder has no prior work experience, no manners on how to speak with anyone (office boy, or women employees) keeps firing people who don’t agree with him, insists on being in the office for 12 hours because he pays us. 

Hiring criteria is -
1. Single people, so no distraction. He asks are you single or in a relationship (in the interview)
2. No married people 
3. Hire women only if they can stay in office till 5 AM (US based startup)
4. Everyone has to be in office for 12 hours compulsory for all 6 days of week

He boasts on how the VCs will save his ass even if the product fails, has said that worst case scenario I will make money because I know company will be acquired. 

He hires domain experts, makes them create playbook and train juniors to do the work, and then fires them saying "We have to stay lean, and this is a bad market". He did this with 3 departments already. 

How are the VCs not asking him basic due diligence questions? He is now raising 8 million follow up round.

RANT.

This is grapevine for godsake. Name the damn startup.

Recruiter

Let's ignore what's wrong with startups, keep this an optimistic thread. Which startups make you excited about their future? 
The ones that have cracked product, GTM, model, or something else.

Name the best Indian startups :)

One for the believers: Which startups in India do you feel are going to make it really big? 🚀

Corporate Strategist

PeakXV (sequoia) has a history of firing CEOs and changing leadership when they become an investor.

At least in this case they'll have full support.

PeakXV (sequoia) should by RCB

What are we gonna do with the grapes we accumulate on Grapevine?

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Customer Success

What does this mean for users at Grapevine? Is this data collection for the future. Anonymous messaging services but what is the ultimate end goal here.

Thoughts

I saw the founders' posts about hiring for Grapevine. Did you guys raise funds? If not, how is this being funded? How do you plan to monetize? What's next for Grapevine?

Peak XV to invest in grapevine?

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