E34: Venk Krishnan (CEO, NuVentures)

The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC

Venk Krishnan is the founder of NuWare and NuVentures. NuVentures is an early stage venture fund based out of Bangalore which has backed companies such as MuSigma, BigBasket, Acko, Pocket Aces, Thrillophilia among others.

Follow Venk Krishnan (@krishnanVenk), host Akash Bhat (@bhatvakash) and the podcast (@thedesi_vc) on Twitter.

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The Desi Startups of the Week:

1. BurnCal: India's First AI based home fitness trainer that can see and guide user to provide real time feedback on their pose and reps.

2. Q-Blocks: A distributed computing company building affordable supercomputers for high performance computing applications like ML model training, Running simulations, big data analytics or creating the next deep fake.

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In this episode we will cover:

1. Covid related (0:47)

2. Operator VC (6:35)

3. How does being a VC help being an entrepreneur?(12:39)

4. Road to Venture Capital (17:50)

5. The MuSigma deal (26:12)

6. How did Venk get clarity on setting up a fund (30:20)

7. Thesis at NuVentures (34:30)

8. Diverse portfolio development from an LP perspective (39:25)

9. Angel investing vs syndicate/VC investing (47:40)

10. Rapid fire (56: 25)