Which Gaurav Gupta? 
  
 I know at least 25 Gaurav Guptas.  It's almost as if the Guptas can't find a name for their male progeny. (I know the alternatives are Manish. Ankit. Akhil.). 
  
 I had 3 Gaurav Guptas in my batch - called G1, G3 and G4. 
  
 The confidence in the "Remember ...." is 🤔

Lmao this is me every time I come across one of these names like ____ Agarwal, Shubham Jain , etc.

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Interesting he has raised around 10mil in seed seems its going to be expensive as hell

Yeah he can get that much money because of amazing previous track record

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Good habit se bna Gabit, but I guess these ops heavy business are bit tricky and need more funding to scale, I had worked on one such which deals in health tech, but didn't get much confidence on their product which catered to lifestyle disease betterment and somewhat similar things like gabit

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Former Zomato exec Gaurav Gupta launches startup

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Remember Gaurav Gupta? He just launched a new startup- Grapevine

Nice to see the openness. Can't imagine how tough it is, to have been derailed by incorrect signals during the bull market. I think they're genuine people who unfortunately could not get it to the right place.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mayank-bidawatka-028b2a1_i-had-promised-updates-and-heres-another-activity-7189226150538240000-MmcI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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Operations Manager

This is an interesting trend fully driven by VCs/board

(Co)founders laid-off

Product Manager

Unacademy will be laying off 30% of its workforce this week. The list of people who will be laid off has been finalised and received signoff from Gaurav & Roman. 

Sad State of Affairs.

Unacademy fresh Layoffs 😶‍🌫️

Growth Manager

The negativity brigade is out in full force against Unacademy lately. Honestly watching this relentless media agenda against us is like watching a bad tv show. As someone who's part of the team, I want to set the record straight.

First off, Gaurav Munjal is the smartest, visionary entrepreneur in the country. He's basically a genius. Like a legend, truly amazing! My observation is that people who are throwing a shade have never built a startup themselves or have never led anything more complex than a lemonade stand. They are simply jealous of Gaurav's awesome success. Meanwhile, legends like Bhavish and BeerBiceps are cheering Gaurav on. Coincidence? I think not!

Oh and layoffs! Every company does it – it's just business 101. Times are tough - stop whining and smell the coffee. This isn't a reason to target Gaurav. I see a lot of snowflake work-lifers who only want to work from 9 to 9 for 5 days. We did indulge you, didn't we? If you really don't want to be "laid off", what is stopping you from doing great work? Even better - why don't you start your own company and keep this stupid to 9-9-5 policy and "not lay off" these work-lifers who are a burden on your company?

Let's focus on constructive support and recognize the efforts of those truly making a difference.

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Corporate Strategist

The Startup that you had an offer from but did not join, and then it went big? (Let's take a word from VCs, how they like to use anti portfolio lists on their sites - cos they got an opportunity to enter but missed)

What's your anti-startup

King of LinkedIn India - accept it

Product Marketing Manager

Unacademy layoffs have started

Heard from ppl that he doesn’t give time to his investee companies & he charges a success fees for being on the cap table. He’s also known for low balling founders on the valuations , any experience? 

Best part of this shitshow is when his parrot prateek speaks to founders, he talks as if he runs BoAt

Ps : he’s not even the decision maker at boat, he’s just the face & heads marketing 

What a scam

Aman Gupta ~ do startups need such investors? Maybe no

Data scientist

Recently I was talking to a girl who was working a startup in BLR. She left the startup with some horrendous experiences. This startup was working from a startup hostel in BLR. Things she told me shook me. She was dating the founder.

So this founder who claims to be on his 2nd startup dates his own employees and then blackmails them.
The average age of his employees is 24. All these girls that he dates are not above 23/24

Apparently this guy has 2 court cases against him. One for fraud and one for a rape case. Both of them are not easily found online. He uses VC money to keep in under the hood.

The fraud case is about his first startup which was a stolen idea apparently. 

This guy’s whole life is fake.
He claims to be an IIT Madras dropout, but he's from some local college. 

There are rumours that one of the girls he dated tried to kill herself because he allegedly filmed them.

He also does not pay salaries for months to his employees but compensates by giving them expensive gifts.

He claims his parents are IAS officers but we checked and they are not. 

His last startup was around around AUTH and current one is around Fintech

Girls and boys stay away from working with such shady startups.

Tinder Swindler of BLR

Founder

Someone asked if Bengaluru is fine if earning less than 25k.

Answer is attached as pic.

Random pic of a bmtc bus at peak hour.

Rest u decide...

Bengaluru Crowd Scene

Senior Consultant

Founders and team missing, payments pending. Another one bites the dust after a seed round.

Influencer tech is gg 😂 others like it will probably follow soon as well. Some of them invested in by Tanmay Bhat.

Freeskout absconding

Generalist

Budget 2024 scrapped the angel tax for all investors, creating the ultimate playground for innovation and entrepreneurship in India.

Big news for Indian startups!

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.

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? 🚀

Inc42? Not really exclusive when the news was already on Grapevine for last one day. Atleast attribute it properly.

Man, that's why I love to be on Grapevine. Another day and another layoff.

CureFit laid off about 120 employees earlier this week in a restructuring exercise, joining the long list of Indian startups

Exclusive: CureFit Lays Off 120 Employees In A Restructuring Exercise

Geez! Grapevine reported it first again 🙏🏻

Gurgaon startups looking to move to London it seems.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/many-gurugram-tech-firms-keen-to-set-up-shops-in-london-report-11692942637406.html

Surprise surprise

They’re focusing on upskilling for the healthcare industry, very interesting space 

https://startupstorymedia.com/insights-former-unacademy-coo-vivek-sinha-raises-11-million-for-edtech-venture-with-lightspeed-and-matrix-backing/

I remember them hiring from here few days back. $11Mn seed, wow that’s big!

Finally an Indian AI startup

Looks like the Grapevine is growing

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Well our Grapevine founder Saumil Tripathi is also in the list.

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