Indian Bank SaaS: Our Prepared Mind
At Stellaris, we have historically carried a level of scepticism on the sector, i.e. companies selling SaaS to banks, wealth management firms, and insurance companies in India. This is primarily on two counts – firstly, lack of conviction in the appetite of...
Punch: Single-Screen Options Trading App
Punch is a mobile-first stock broking app which is focused on enabling options trading for retail traders, especially part-timers with day jobs. They’ve pioneered a single-screen trading experience to trade from mobile. Our investment thesis in Punch hinges on three...
India’s SMB financing gap: An exciting opportunity for fintech founders
If today, a Small and Medium Business (SMB) owner in India were to approach a bank for credit, they would invariably encounter the customary setbacks for loan approval: lack of credit history, unavailability of collateral, and insufficient documentation, to name a...
Cracking the Developer Code: Your right to win in the Devtool market
The last decade has seen rapid changes in software development – agile development, APIs, microservices, OSS and the growth of AI-first and data companies. All of these have led to the creation of a large number of developer tool companies. Over the past few...