Why We Invested in GTM Buddy?

by Alok Goyal | Sep 21, 2021 | Investment Announcement

Our typical thesis in SaaS is about backing great teams in new categories. This typically means that there is no established category (e.g. employee performance management or sales incentive compensation) that solves that pain point. Usually businesses solve these...

Building an Operating System for Enterprise Sales Process – Our Investment in BuyerAssist

by Naman Lahoty, Alok Goyal | Jun 9, 2021 | Investment Announcement

Enterprise sales is a journey, not just a transaction. It involves complex project management spread across 100s of emails, telephonic conversations, project management tools and many ad-hoc documents. Add to this, the extensive collaboration and alignment that is...

High Quality, Personalized, Affordable – What Tuitions Should Look Like, and Why We Invested in Swiflearn

by Arpit Maheshwari | Jun 2, 2020 | Investment Announcement

After-school tuitions are ubiquitous in India, being squarely in the need as opposed to the want category – it is estimated up to 85% of students in private schools in Indian metros receive private tutoring of some form for curricular topics. As a result, it is...

Creating a Step Change in Effectiveness for B2B Marketers, or Why We Invested in Slintel

by Alok Goyal | Dec 13, 2019 | Investment Announcement

Imagine you sell a SaaS-based HR tool to enterprises. Your solution specifically targets employee engagement, integrates to varying degrees of effectiveness with existing full service HRMS systems, and has very distinct advantages as compared to two key competitors....

Whatfix: What we Learnt from Series A to Series B in a SaaS Business

by Alok Goyal | Mar 15, 2019 | Investment Announcement

As an investor, some investment journeys are a delight to watch – Whatfix has been one of them. They have just concluded their Series B round, where Whatfix welcomed three exceptional new investors – Eight Road Ventures, f-Prime (a Boston based firm) and Cisco....

Creating the discussion platform for Bharat : Our investment in Manch

by Aditi Gupta | Jan 23, 2019 | Investment Announcement

“Indians are an opinionated lot” – so much so that Mr. Narendra Modi made ‘Chai pe charcha’ as the key publicity drive of his last election campaign. But you don’t need to take anyone’s word for it – you just need to attend an Indian wedding or visit the...