LEHI - Low Ego High Impact - Mindset - #3 - Anant Vidur Puri | Venture Capital Investing and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India

#3 - Anant Vidur Puri | Venture Capital Investing and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India

10/03/23 • 52 min

Hi from Bangalore, India! In this episode, Kostas Poulakidas and I, Volkan Emre, are hosting Anant Vidur Puri, a technology and entrepreneurship enthusiast who is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners’ India branch.
Bessemer is one of the World’s leading VC companies, with more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces.
Anant is an alum of the Harvard Business School.

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#2 - Abhinay Choudhari | Building Unicorns by Re-inventing Grocery Shopping and Laundry

Hi from Bangalore, India. Today, Kostas Poulakidas and myself, Volkan Emre, are hosting Abhinay Choudhari, the founder of BigBasket.com, one of the largest and most impactful e-commerce ventures in the World. BigBasket was sold to Tata Group for over $2 billion valuation in 2021.

Abhinay is also the founder of LaundryMate, a groundbreaking platform revolutionizing the way how laundry is done. We are at LaundryMate’s headquarters in Bangalore and thankful for Abhinay’s hospitality.
Abhinay is an alum of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

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#4 - Oender Boyman | Venture Capital Investing in Europe & Building a Career in VC

Hi from Evanston, Illinois. In this podcast Kostas Poulakidas and I, Volkan Emre, are hosting Oender Boyman, a fellow Kellogg Executive MBA and a seasoned venture capital investor. Onder is currently a Partner at Swiss Venture Capital firm VI Partners. Vi Partners was founded in 2000 by ETH Zurich, McKinsey and ten Swiss blue-chip companies with the mission to stimulate entrepreneurship and foster the VC industry in Switzerland.

Prior to joining VI Partners, he was the head of the Swiss Post Ventures, the venture investment arm of Swiss Post, the national postal service of Switzerland - consistently voted as the most innovative and best postal service in the world.
Oender is an alum of the Kellogg School of Management's Executive MBA program.