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Everyone is good till the time they are allowed to be...that's my honest two cents!!

Some are genuinely good, some are rotten from the core. AFAIK

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Which VC fund is the worst in India?

Which VC fund is the worst in India?- Grapevine

I want to find seed stage startups to join as a founding engineer. I want to take some risk while I can and try if I can get a good return.

How should I go about this? 

I have 7 years of experience. Building distributed systems, backend services with Go, Clojure, etc. I have some frontend experience as well with SvelteKit, Tailwind, etc. I also made a SaaS product recently and got around 10 small businesses as customers on subscription. The product itself got acquired for 5 figures USD after I ran it for 2 months

How to find seed stage startups?

Take a free subscription of crunchbase. Find startups funded in the last 2 years by good funds and cancel subscription. The founders are generally easy to cold call

Founder

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Which Indian VC investor is a no-go and why? 
Share in person’s name - fund - reason(s) format if possible

Which VCs to avoid

I'll start - One of the older VC firms with an office in Indiranagar (also probably planning to shut their scout vehicle fund after a few employee exits) reels of toxicity at the helm. GP who comes from a rich family has the habit of arm twisting employees and putting them down even on the smallest of the mistakes. What's your toxic VC story?

Let's discuss toxic VCs

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Who do we think are the stupidest VC's in India/Globally? Funding batshit crazy companies with negligible diligence or thought 

I'll go first - an orange and black striped animal + global

Stupidest VC's

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Which are the worst investors to take money in India? What was the issue?

Worst Investors in India?

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Hey everyone. 

Thought I could do an AMA. A bit about me - have 4 years of work experience and graduated from a non engineering college. Was at a startup before (from Series B to Series D) before becoming a VC

Personally look at consumer and B2B investments here 

Happy to answer any questions around life as a junior VC, startup ecosystem, career growth etc.

AMA: I work at a large VC Fund focusing on early stage investments

This is the biggest problem with VC ecosystem 4 yoe kids taking calls on experienced, hardworking founders. Dude first learn the game then invest , judge people playing the game. VCs know nothing about how to run startups. Unless they have been entrepreneurs themselves. IMO It's a colossal waste of talent to become a VC for young PPL.

Any experience of sleeping with the wrong VC in your company's investors? How did they harm you or affect you? Need names pls

Any bad VC stories?

Growth Manager

finally a VC fund that will actually support fraud openly 👏🏻

Software Developer

I'm hearing some horror stories of pressure and unreasonable expectations coming from VC's even at the seed stage. Pre and post funding. 

Do you folks have stories to share about this. Especially w.r.t. interaction with associates with zero business experience giving Gyan !.

Founders on here....what's the worst VC experience that you've had ?

Early stage venture capital does not require any complex financial skills. It is majorly about people skills and business acumen. It’s quite well paid for what the exact work is. That’s why, I feel like that it is being gate kept by folks from some colleges (IITs especially). 

What do you think?

Is early stage VC being heavily gate kept?

What can be improved? Not people specific, but what you feel is wrong about us consistently across most conversations you've had?

Founders/Ex Founders on Grapevine, what can VCs get better at?

Am I underpaid?
I have been in VC ecosystem since 1 year and have a salary of 40 k per month. This is my first job. I am from an average college.

VC Salary

VC Analyst

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Who dis the best individual VC partners in India and which firms are the best in class? How is it working with (or for) them? Any insider dirt much appreciated!!

Best VC partners and investment firms in India?

Product Owner

Saw this on X so made an Indian VC version 😂

This is the first big exit of a big VC from India

Omidyaar VC exiting India

Product Marketing Manager

During the bull run folks were investing in all kind of creator companies right from merchandising, community platforms, audience management to payments. 

Interesting to see only a few creator focused companies globally succeeding. 

What went wrong?

Creator economy rocketsip went down pretty quick

Most of the startups are in loss and have no clue whether they would be able to make it to IPO, I've always been wondering how come so they get the funding in hundreds of millions?

Even though the early investors seek to make money off the next funding round but still!

It looks like a 21st century's quick rich scheme for founders!

How come all these startups get funding in hundreds of millions?

Do you find high quality, with strong operator experience? I'm a bits21 grad looking to start up and wanted to get a lay of the land. Either funds or VC partner names!

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