Tables Turned as 12 Investors Sold Themselves to Entrepreneurs
In the past 18-24 months, they have done 6 more early stage investments, Zovi, Inkfruit and FirstCry in ecommerce space, iStream (video destination site to watch TV content and movies), PropTiger (real estate portal) and ixigo (travel planning portal). SAIF looks at businesses with tech component which can scale up in 7-9 years, investing between $ 500k and $10 million. Abhimanyu says that when we evaluate a company before funding, we can only minimize the risk of failure and can never eradicate it.
Sequoia Capital (Gautam Mago) – Sequoia invests in technology and consumer companies in sectors like Internet, Enterprise Services, SaaS, Payments, Mobile and Analytics. They invest between $100k and 60 million (for example in Justdial). They have taken more than 50 companies from less than 5 people to IPO. Sequoia serves as a long time partner for startups, the longest being 14 years and average being 7-8 years.
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