E31: Sasha Mirchandani (Managing Director & Founder, Kae Capital)

The Desi VC: Indian Venture Capital | Angel Investors | Startups | VC

Sasha Mirchandani is Managing Director and Founder of Kae Capital and Co-founder Mumbai Angels. Previously, he was at Blue Run Ventures as Managing Director for the India operations. Before joining Blue Run Ventures he was CEO and Founder of Imercius Technologies. Earlier he was at Mirc Electronics (Onida) where he was Head of Corporate Affairs and new business.

Follow Sasha on Twitter (@sashamirchi), host Akash Bhat (@bhatvakash) and our podcast (@thedesi_vc).

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The Desi Startups of the Week:

1. Aisle: Aisle is a dating app for Indians around the world

2. Sarva: India’s largest and only Yoga based wellness ecosystem

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In this week’s episode, we will cover:

1. Impact of COVID personally and professionally (3:30)

2. Learnings during COVID as an investor (6:55)

3. LP sentiment and concerns (10:58)

4. Sasha’s background (15:50)

5. How did Mumbai Angels come into being? (20:05)

6. When should an angel think about raising institutional capital for his/her fund? (24:55)

7. Mistakes angels make during investing (26:31)

8. Sasha’s thesis during the early days on angel investing (28:00)

9. Evolution of investment thesis at Kae Capital across funds (29:45)

10. How do you decentralize venture capital in India to allow for more investors to enter the market (35:42)

11. Rapid fire (39:50)