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- 198₹10,000 Crores Into Restaurants. Why Do 80% Fail? | The Hotshare F&B Investment Playbook12 Oct 2026 · 1h 33m▶Show page
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What makes a restaurant worth backing when 80% of them fail? Hotshare, an F&B investment platform that backs restaurant businesses at the outlet level, evaluated 41 brands in its first year and invested in just three. So what made those three worth backing? For Lavanya, Founder and CEO of Hotshare, the answer is…
- 197From Puma to one8 X Agilitas: The Ganguly x Kohli Partnership28 Sept 2026 · 45 minVirat Kohli▶Show page
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How was Puma India built, how did Virat Kohli’s one8 come about, and what is Agilitas trying to build in India’s sportswear market? Abhishek Ganguly spent 17 years at Puma, joining when the brand was virtually unknown in India and helping build it into the country’s largest sportswear brand. Puma India went on to…
- 196From an IIT Bombay Lab to a ₹1,000 Crore IPO | The SEDEMAC Deep-Tech Story15 Sept 2026 · 1h 27m▶Show page
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What does it take to build original deep tech in India, get some of the country’s largest companies to adopt it, and eventually take the business to a ₹1,000+ crore IPO? In 2007, Professor Shashikanth Suryanarayanan started @SEDEMAC Mechatronics out of an IIT Bombay lab. Nearly two decades later, SEDEMAC has become…
- 195How India’s ₹5 Lakh Crore Alcohol Industry Works | 8X Bigger than Bollywood and Jewellery1 Sept 2026 · 1h 25mWilliam Grant▶Show page
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India’s alcohol beverage industry is worth around ₹5 lakh crore, and spirits make up roughly three-fourths of the market. But building a successful alcohol brand in India involves much more than making a good drink. 00:00 Introduction 01:21 How Big Is India’s Alcobev Industry? 02:13 Why Spirits Dominate India…
- 194How VCs Choose Founders to Back | Why Accel Backed Flipkart, Myntra & More17 Aug 2026 · 47 minAccelAccel IndiaBinny Bansal▶Show page
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Subrata Mitra, Co-founder and Partner at Accel India and co-author of Down But Not Out , shares what decades of backing Indian startups have taught him about building companies that survive setbacks, adapt through uncertainty and keep going long enough to succeed. 00:00 Introduction 01:01 Why Subrata Wrote Down But…
- 193How India Should Actually Compete in the Global AI Race5 Aug 2026 · 56 minPiyush Shah▶Show page
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Piyush Shah, a legendary Indian Founder of 2 Unicorns (InMobi & Glance) shares why India's AI strategy has to look nothing like Silicon Valley's or Beijing's, and what founders should build instead. 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Why the Country That Invents AI Rarely Wins 02:16 US vs China vs India: India's AI…
- 192Global B2B GTM for Enterprises in the AI-first World21 Jul 2026 · 46 min▶Show page
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What You’ll Learn: 00:00 Introduction 02:13 Why Marketing Owns Zero Board KPIs 08:54 There Is No Killer Marketing Campaign 15:41 Why Your First 10 Customers Matter More 24:16 The Biggest GTM Mistake Founders Make 33:48 How AI Is Changing Customer Discovery 43:11 Demand Generation Beats Chasing Leads 53:02 Why…
- 191Six Times They Almost Shut Down; Today It Makes ₹60 Crore Every Month | Akshayakalpa CEO - Shashi Kumar23 Jun 2026 · 1h 27mShashi KumarNithin Kamath▶Show page
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Akshayakalpa is known as India’s first certified organic dairy enterprise. But in this conversation, Shashi Kumar makes it clear that the deeper story has always been farming. In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Jerome Manuel speaks with Shashi Kumar, Founder & CEO of Akshayakalpa, about building…
- 190How are Indians investing? Angel One CEO on SIPs, ETFs, AI and wealth creation7 Jun 2026 · 44 minAngel OneGoogle▶Show page
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India’s UPI moment changed how money moves. But that may only be the first chapter. As millions of Indians become comfortable with digital payments, a bigger question is beginning to emerge: how will they save, invest, and build wealth over the next decade? In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast,…
- 189Why mChek Failed Before UPI Took Over India | Sanjay Swamy on Building Too Early19 May 2026 · 55 min▶Show page
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Long before UPI, smartphones and Aadhaar transformed digital payments in India, mChek was trying to turn mobile phones into wallets. The vision was ambitious. The execution was complex. And the ecosystem was still years away from catching up. In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Shripati Acharya…
- 188The Psychology of Exceptional Founders | Dr. Julie Gurner, Executive Performance Coach22 Apr 2026 · 45 min▶Show page
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Some founders build solid companies. A few build something far bigger than what looked reasonable at the time. What explains that gap? In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Amit Somani, Managing Partner at Prime Venture Partners, speaks with Dr. Julie Gurner, Executive Performance Coach on the…
- 187Inside the Dark Stores Behind Blinkit & Zepto | How 10 Minute Delivery Works9 Apr 2026 · 54 min▶Show page
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Most people think quick commerce is just about delivering in 10 minutes. But it’s not. Behind every Blinkit or Zepto order is a tightly run system of dark stores, pick paths, manpower, and real-time execution that has almost no margin for error. In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Brij Bhushan…
- 186Sushant Junnarkar on Building a Business, Running Out of Runway, and Knowing When to Stop28 Mar 2026 · 41 min▶Show page
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In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, we speak with Sushant Junnarkar, who shares his raw and honest journey of building and eventually shutting down an early-stage startup. Sushant takes us through the complete entrepreneurial roller coaster from early traction and funding to competition, pivots,…
- 185How Basil Built a Premium Kids Brand in a ₹60,000 Crore Market | loved by 1.5+ Lakh Families5 Mar 2026 · 54 min▶Show page
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In this episode, the founders of Basil share how they spotted an opportunity in India’s school essentials space and built a design-led brand trusted by over 1.5 lakh families. After careers at Uber and Amazon, they set out to solve a simple but overlooked problem. Kids' essentials did not have to be boring,…
- 184How Propelld Helped 4 Lakh+ Indian Students Achieve Their Dreams | Prime Venture Partners29 Jan 2026 · 55 min▶Show page
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In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, we speak with Victor, the Co-founder and CEO of Propelld, a company that has revolutionised education financing in India. Victor takes us through the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial journey, from starting his first startup in 2014 to building one of…
- 1832026 Predictions - AI, Robots, Biotech, Unicorns & the Next 5 Years | Prime Ventures Podcast21 Jan 2026 · 55 min▶Show page
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In this special episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, the Partners come together to discuss how AI, new business models, and shifting global dynamics are reshaping startups and what founders should be preparing for as we head deeper into 2026 and beyond. From pragmatic AI adoption to new opportunities in…
- 182A Time Machine Roundtable: Inside India’s Startup Journey (2010 to 2025)18 Dec 2025 · 1h 2m▶Show page
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🚀 2025 feels like a turning point for the Indian startup ecosystem. In this special year-end episode of the Prime Venture Partners podcast, we take a step back and look at the journey from the early days of 2010 to where we are today and what lies ahead. We talk about: • The wild early years when founders were…
- 181The Holy Grail of Business AI: Uniphore's $2.5 Billion Playbook with Umesh Sachdev3 Dec 2025 · 54 minUmesh Sachdev▶Show page
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Umesh Sachdev, cofounder and CEO of Uniphore, joins Shripati Acharya for a deeply insightful and very real conversation about what it actually takes to build and scale enterprise AI. Whether you are a founder, a product leader or someone thinking seriously about enterprise AI, this episode will give you clarity on…
- 180How Stories Shape Decisions, Trust & Startup Outcomes, A Masterclass with Ameen Haque19 Nov 2025 · 44 minRatan Tata▶Show page
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Ameen Haque, Founder of Storywallahs and one of India’s leading storytelling coaches, joins Amit Somani for an eye-opening deep dive into the craft of storytelling in business. If you're a founder, operator, leader, or creator, this conversation will reshape the way you pitch, lead, persuade, and communicate. 🔍…
- 179Apple, China, and the New Map of Global Power: What Patrick McGee’s Apple in China Teaches the World and India6 Nov 2025 · 36 min▶Show page
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Apple’s China story is more than a business case, it’s a mirror of globalization itself. In this eye-opening conversation, Patrick McGee, Financial Times journalist and author of Apple in China, sits down with Pankaj Agarwal to explore how Apple’s greatest triumph became its biggest challenge. 💬 In this episode:…
- 178How Can India Build Its Own Global Smartphone Brand? Conversation with Ex-CEO of Realme and Founder of Ai+ | Madhav Sheth15 Oct 2025 · 34 min▶Show page
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Madhav Sheth, - the driving force behind Realme, now the Founder of Ai+, opens up about the inside world of smartphone wars, the rise (and fall) of Indian brands, and his vision to rebuild from scratch. 🔍 In this episode: • How Realme rewrote India’s smartphone playbook • Why most Indian brands couldn’t survive…
- 177Inside the VC Mind: Prime’s Fundraising Masterclass for Founders7 Oct 2025 · 1h 5m▶Show page
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For the first time ever, the Prime Venture Partners investment team, 1 Principal and 2 Vice Presidents, sit down to answer everything founders wish they could ask a VC face-to-face. This isn’t theory. This is the real inside view of how venture capital works in India: 💸 How VCs actually pick the 5 startups that…
- 176Why India Must Lead in Deep AI Research | Insights from Google DeepMind Director23 Sept 2025 · 55 minGooglePrateek Jain▶Show page
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In this episode, we sit down with Prateek Jain (Principal Scientist & Director at Google DeepMind) for an unfiltered deep dive into: How AI research has evolved from handcrafted features → deep learning → transformers → generative Why safety and efficiency matter just as much as scale India’s once-in-a-generation…
- 175How Humans + AI Will Reshape Startups & Enterprises? The Co-Intelligence Revolution with Prof. Venkat11 Sept 2025 · 49 minRevolution▶Show page
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In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, host Jerome Manuel sits down with Prof. Venkat Ramaswamy, Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, and a globally recognized thought leader on innovation and co-creation. Prof. Venkat is the co-author of the seminal The Future of Competition with…
- 174The Man Who Built Hotmail and Sold it to Microsoft for $400M | Prime Venture Partners Podcast28 Aug 2025 · 48 minSabeer Bhatia▶Show page
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In this PrimeVP Podcast episode, we go back to the roots of the internet with Sabeer Bhatia, the man who gave the world Hotmail. 📧 From his Hotmail journey to his bold perspectives on today’s most pressing themes, Sabeer shares unfiltered insights on: 1️⃣ How an email problem at work sparked the idea that changed…
- 173How Khadim Batti Built Whatfix Into a ~$900 Million Global SaaS Leader | Podcast20 Aug 2025 · 53 minKhadim Batti▶Show page
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How do you pivot from an early idea that didn’t work ➝ to building a global SaaS leader trusted by 700+ enterprises? In this full episode of the Prime Podcast, Khadim Batti (Co-founder & CEO, Whatfix) reveals the raw founder journey: The pivot moment that sparked Whatfix Hustling with 500 cold emails to close first…
- 172Mahesh Joshi on H.I.T. Investing: Building Profitable & Impactful Startups12 Aug 2025 · 46 min▶Show page
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In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Sanjay Swamy hosts Mahesh Joshi, Head of Asia Private Equity at BlueOrchard and author of H.I.T. Investing. He shares powerful insights on how companies across India and Asia are solving critical problems like: Financial inclusion for underserved Kirana stores…
- 171He coached Virat, Dhoni, D Gukesh & 25+ World Champions - Paddy Upton's Secrets30 Jul 2025 · 21 minVirat Kohli▶Show page
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From “Virat Kohli is the best preparer in the cricket world” to reminding startup leaders of the most important lesson - “Who I am and the results of what I do are different”, our podcast with Paddy Upton has it all! 🎯 What you’ll take away in this full episode with Paddy (mental coach to India’s 2011 World…
- 170Snapfish to Aadhaar to MoneyTap to AI: Bala Parthasarathy on Building Across Eras15 Jul 2025 · 35 minBala ParthasarathyNandan Nilekani▶Show page
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🎙️ Bala Parthasarathy - Chairman & Co-founder, Freo, Director at People+AI, Senior Adviser, EMK Capital (London) - joins us for one of our most insightful episodes. In this full conversation, Bala discusses: 🔹 Snapfish’s dotcom-era growth, crash, and acquisition by HP 🔹 Building Aadhaar from the ground up with…
- 169Narayan Manepally’s Journey of Building Geist Brewing Co. |From Ex-Intel Engineer to Craft Beer Icon in India4 Jul 2025 · 46 min▶Show page
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What happens when a techie starts brewing in his garage and ends up building one of India’s most iconic craft beer brands? Just as refreshing as Geist’s beer, this episode has Narayan Manepally, CEO & Co-founder of Geist Brewing Co., chatting with Sanjay Swamy. It has all the flavours and ingredients - from sharing…
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