Flyonthewall19
Flyonthewall19

What is the level of collusion among Indian VCs when it comes to passing confidential information as a gossip ?

Is there a massive information asymmetry among VCs as well ? What is the level of fluidity in the system when it comes to information sharing ? What is the extent of damage, a few VCs opinion of a startup does to the start-ups fundraising capabilities?

18mo ago
Gambler1
Gambler1
Crypto18mo

Everything is shared, we invest in many startups together too. Also winners are decided way before even competition has a chance to raise

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Gojek18mo

Very interesting.

Would you say that it’s a kingmaker club? Where winners are chosen from the people within the community.

Ofc, funding has no implication on success but it sure as hell makes firefighting easier.

Flyonthewall19
Flyonthewall19

I think there is a cult WITHIN the community as well, where a few top VCs decide the winners and make money. Most of the MicroVCs also don't have these privileges as the big ones.

Cfactorial
Cfactorial

They pass all the information provided to them. I used to work for a startup that ended up becoming a unicorn. At any point of time, we had financials and pitch decks of all our competitors

avgspacelover
avgspacelover

How

Cfactorial
Cfactorial

Friends who have friends :)

RealGenZ
RealGenZ

Sharing a personal experience

We are college founders (just passed out) so didn't know about any of this stuff before. Just realized the extent when we were given the Termsheet by a T1 VC and the next day, got reachouts by 9 other VCs & almost everyone we were talking to offered to invest (we never mentioned a TS to them)

Infact, when I asked a senior in VC, they said everyone knew we were talking to this firm - which was so weird because just imagine if they rejected instead of giving a TS

EarthDragon
EarthDragon

Everything is shared like free flowing beer. Only in outside conversations it’s marked or told as confidential 😂

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Gojek18mo

Underrated thread.

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