Expected exit route While most of the startups expect to provide an exit by going public someday, majority of your exit opportunities...

Okay, so now you're all set to invest in the startups that’s right for you. But how can you increase your chances of success? We recommend carrying out thorough: A. Due Diligence Most experienced Angels would state that their least successful investments occurred where they failed to undertake rigorous due diligence (DD). Carrying out a thorough DD mitigates your investment risk by a large extent. But due diligence takes time, expertise and knowledge, so can outsource it to p

B y now you must have framed up your mind on whether to invest in startups or not. Now, let’s try to understand how you can frame your investment strategy. There’s no 1 winning strategy per say, but we’ve created some rules of thumb to help you make up your mind: Do you have any domain or functional expertise? Answering this question will help you to understand which sectors you should explore for investing. Domain expertise translates into Hard Knowledge , i.e. knowing in-de

Remember what we said earlier? Research says that 3 out of 4 startups fail. Which means investing in startups is extremely risky. So, if you’re betting money in this risky asset class, you’d expect high rewards also, right? That’s why, experts suggest that you should expect at least 10% alpha (additional returns) on your startup portfolio, over and above the market benchmark index (like NIFTY50) coming to around 25%. To corroborate this, we analyzed the investment portfolios

How many times have we seen on Shark Tank that founders end up choosing an investor, whose deal is worse in terms of valuation, but much...

To be honest, with all the news of VCs minting money on early-stage investments, we all feel like getting a piece of the tech pie. Right?...