1mby1m Entrepreneurship Podcast

Devdutt Yellurkar, General Partner at CRV, who discussed his investment principles. It was an excellent discussion!

Gero Decker is Co-founder and CEO at Signavio, an enterprise software company that has successfully scaled to $20 million in ARR from Europe. They have also made a successful entry into the US market and raised financing from a US venture firm.

Alexander Ross, Founder at Illuminate Financial, talks about his firm’s FinTech investment thesis.

Waikit Lau, investor and serial entrepreneur, has a refreshingly open attitude towards investing in very early stage companies. Wonderful conversation.

Biplab Adhya and Venu Pemmaraju, Co-Heads of Wipro Ventures.

Kelly Perdew is Co-founder and Managing General Partner at Moonshots Capital, a firm that has a unique investment thesis of supporting military veterans. Very interesting insights.

Anita Sands, Board Director at Symantec and ServiceNow, talks about corporate innovation as it pertains to large enterprises experiencing disruptive change, as well as some experiencing hyper growth. Anita has perspective on both, and generously shares her thoughts.

Ravi Mohan is Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, a firm that has invested in three SaaS Unicorns. Ravi discussed these investments: Apptio, Anaplan, and Zuora.

Abhishek Rungta, Founder and CEO of Kolkata, India based Indus Net Technologies, related his story of moving his company from a commodity web development services venture to an IP-based, differentiated technology provider in the Banking and Financial services sector.

Avik Pal, Founder and CEO of CliniOps, relates his story of getting to $1 million in bootstrapped revenue with a clinical trials management software.

Heidi Jannenga, Co-founder and President of WebPT, discusses how they raised $1 million WITH $1 million in revenue already booked, and then turned that $1 million into $17 million in revenue.

Vikrant Mathur, Co-founder of Future Today, discusses his 10+ years journey of building a profitable bootstrapped business to over $10 million in revenue.

Ankit Jain is Founding Partner at Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI venture fund.

Steve Beck, Managing Partner at Serra Ventures, discusses his firm’s non-Unicorn investment thesis. Refreshing to hear.

Suresh Shanmugham, Managing Partner at Saama Capital, talks about the Indian venture capital eco-system, trends, exits, and his firm’s investment strategy.

SC Moatti, Managing Partner at Mighty Capital, discusses Whales, Dolphins and more. A wonderful conversation full of wisdom and pragmatism.

Deb Kemper is Managing Director and Chair of the Boston Forum at Golden Seeds, an Angel Group and Micro VC focused exclusively on women entrepreneurs.

Kanwaljit Singh is Founder of Fireside Ventures, a fund focused on building consumer brands in India. This is an excellent conversation about the nascent opportunity that, I expect, will be a major, worldwide phenomenon in the coming years.

Utsav Somani, Angel Investor at AngelList India, talks about the newly launched AngelList India.

Paolo Juvara is Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab. Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform. In this session, Paolo and I discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership.