I ❤️ connecting people, especially if they are folks that want to help others. Thanks for meeting Kushagra Shrivastava while he’s in 🇮🇳 Jatin Chaudhary! 🙏🙌

🚀 Don't miss out on the upcoming #DraperFoundersPrograms! 🚀

At Draper House Americas we continue to make history by creating non-equity high-impact programs, not only through our community but also through the speakers who shape them.

Join us for 10-day programs in various locations across the Americas and participate for a full scholarship for the #HeroProgram at Draper University 🇺🇲 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇺🇾 🇧🇷

🌟 We offer opportunities for entrepreneurs looking to accelerate their growth, connect with  #DraperMentors and access over $125k in #DraPerks, with plenty of other value propositions.

📅 Upcoming programs:

🇨🇱 August '24 - Santiago de Chile, Chile (Registrations closed ❎)

🇦🇷 September '24 - Mendoza, Argentina (Registrations open! 🔥) in partnership with Embarca! More info 👉 https://shorturl.at/weHny

🇺🇾 October '24 - Punta del Este + Montevideo, Uruguay (Registrations opening 🔜) at our #DraperHouseUY

🇺🇲 Early-November '24 - New York City, USA at our #DraperHouseNYC at The Yard: Space to Work

🇧🇷 Late-November '24 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at our #DraperHouseinRio with Lawi

🇺🇾 January '25 - Punta del Este, Uruguay at our #DraperHouseinUY

If you know someone, tag or refer them! 🚀

Together, we’re better.

I get to work with the best investors, team members and bring to life a product that otherwise wouldn’t exist to help even more people and communities!

A discussion all about selling as an early-stage startup, building marketplace businesses, the maturing SaaS landscape in Asia, breaking silos and more with:

- Vamsi Krishna - Co-founder & CPO, Multiplier
- Hardik Batra - APAC Director, Commercial, foodpanda

eChai Ventures at Draper Startup House Singapore.

I wish I met you earlier in life Jatin Chaudhary! Thank you for sharing how you help tens of thousands of people via eChai Ventures, it’s wonderful hearing how you started it in 2009 and run so many events around the world 🌎🌍🌏. Thank you Nishant Bijani & Hitesh Umaletiya for introducing me to Jatin. I learned so much that I’ll be putting to use in Key and Xoogler.co to help more communities and people 🙏.

The location we met at is to die for 🪦.

Please sign up at key.ai to access our community product, early access to it is about to begin! 🚀 Kushagra Shrivastava and I are hiring a growth manager and business analyst incase anyone is looking for a job.

🇮🇳 #India: It's been a FUN week in the world of #entrepreneurtourism! March is my favourite month of the year. It's a celebration of life and being on many levels: from birthdays to my gender, driving movements for gender equity, etc.

Last week on a panel with Moina, Shruti, Maithreye, Charu, we discussed launching startups, challenges in the entrepreneurial world, and on a less conventional topic of support systems to tide through hurdles, we dived deep and personal over a closeknit roundtable.

The journey can be lonely (sometimes more so as a woman), but how do we navigate that?

It is heartening to hear that support systems for these empowered women range from families and supportive partners, communities, micro-communities, to having access to like-minded peers in the same business social circles, alongside professional networks such as Women in Investing Network and Women in VSEA.

Earlier that day, I caught up with Aashraya who's one of the few #web3 founders in #Hyderabad – we shared a panel on network states and virtual nations last year in #Bangalore. We discussed ambitions and future plans for Illuminated.

Just yesterday, Deeksha from Anthill Ventures was passing through #Bangalore. Coincidentally, me too! So we couldn't pass on the opportunity to catch up in person at Draper Startup House in #koramangala and explore collectively driving progress in the startup community. It's always cool to meet a fellow woman in VC – i always have something to learn from them.

💫 On a personal note over birthdays and wishes, I hope that people continue to be the progress they want to see in this world.

The future belongs to the dreamers and visionaries who believe in the beauty of their dreams, and I'm always grateful and humbled by the community that shows me, without fail, everyday:

The future is here 🚀

🇸🇬 Singapore: Enterprise Singapore is leading a business delegation to Estonia and seeking promising Singaporean companies to join them.

Calling all Singapore-based #startups and #founders!

Explore #Estonia, one of the world's most spectacular countries. We proudly established Draper Startup House presence there years ago 🚀

What does Estonia share in common with Singapore? A vibrant digital economy and a launchpad to our respective regions.

Estonia has a world-class track record in building unicorns. So far, Estonia has been the birthplace of 10 unicorn Startups:

➡ Skype in 2005
➡ Playtech in 2007
➡ Wise in 2015
➡ Bolt in 2018
➡ Pipedrive in 2020
➡ Zego, ID.me and Gelato in 2021
➡ Veriff and Glia in 2022

That’s 7.7 unicorns per million capita, that's the highest in the world!

Join this seminar to find out more on how you can tap into opportunities in Estonia and across Europe! Hear firsthand from our lineup of experts:

Ambassador H.E. Priit Turk (Estonian Embassy in Singapore), Liisi Org (CEO of Latitude59), Carmen Raal (Digital Transformation Adviser e-Estonia), Vijay Sirse (Founder of Destiny Energy Pte Ltd)

Register here: https://bit.ly/49rWg1w

#Throwback

🇮🇳 #Bangalore: Would you attend a startup demo day on a Saturday evening?

4 years since I last saw Jatin at DSH Singapore for eChai Ventures, we finally caught up IRL – this time co-hosting an eChai #startup pitch event and #investor panel discussion at DSH Bangalore. Our roof was filled with 130+ #entrepreneurs and investors.

Here are some learnings:

⏳45 DAYS to 6 MONTHS

Is the duration for which due diligence, getting a term sheet, to receiving money in the bank can take up to in the process of startups #fundraising (as a gauge) 🪙

📚 RESOURCES

– Venture Deals by Brad Feld is a great read to prepare founders who are #raisingcapital

– indianvcs.com is a pooled resource built by some VC folks, for entrepreneurs to have access to investor contacts (built with Notion 🔥)

🤝🏼 KEEP IT PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL

– Before reaching out to an investor, research on the fund and what they invest in.

– Be genuine and authentic. Dishonesty is a red flag; The industry is interconnected, and will soon find out 🚩

–

Seeing is believing. I wouldn't have imagined a pitch night on a weekend evening being full house, and the energy is uplifting.

Thanks a ton to the investors for their valuable insights (Vijetha, Himansu, Bikramjeet, Mohammed Amaan Memon) and all the entrepreneurs who came to share their vision and business ideas with us 🚀 ... Not forgetting one of the best hyper-connectors and startup enablers around: Jatin 💯


WHO SHOULD I MEET NEXT? 😁
I've been here for two weeks already, but will be based out of Draper Startup House #India for the next couple more – I'm happy to connect with #founders, #startups, #investors, ecosystem partners and would love to meet others who are also enabling the startup community! Thanks for the recs 🙌🏼


Loving this journey so far!
Stay tuned for updates from BLR 🇮🇳

🇸🇬 #Singapore in peak bustle on a Thursday!

HEX's TENTH Singapore cohort of founders took the stage and pitched their businesses yesterday evening. One of the memorable demos was EduKate, promoting STEM education for girls through dolls 👧🏼♀️Pleasant surprise to bump into Remi and Benedict who were the judges, and hella proud of Jaclyn Benstead and Shirley Pham who led this program and made it epic!

Worlds colliding 🌏💥 when Jodie meets Mihaela meets HEX! The startup ecosystem welcomes everyone – innovators from all walks🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️🚶 (for context: Jodie is an excellent UX researcher/designer and Mihaela is working on her phD in financial inclusion + 

I missed Accelerating Asia Ventures's demo day this week and the FOMO got to me 😢 but I'm truly glad that everyone passes through the Draper Startup House HQ whenever they're in town... (👋🏽 hi Amra 🥲)

Paying for beer in Singapore with #India rupees 🍻💰 I'm grateful for this fellow globetrotting buddy Ibrahim who recently passed through Hyderabad, and exchanging notes and insights on the city!

It's been an epic two weeks in Singapore; I'm happy to be home! ...If you think I'm taking off soon, you guessed right 😉

🔜 NEXT STOP #HYDERABAD 🔥🚀

I'll be around for a month(ish), excited to CONNECT with the entrepreneurs, founders, investors, operators, and the startup community and learn from everyone 🤩 

ASK: Who should I meet / grab chai with? 👀

🇸🇬 Singapore: We appreciate everyone who joined us at the eChai Ventures event at Draper Startup House 

#Singapore last night! Special thanks to Shilpa S Nath and Anna Rehermann for their valuable contributions as speakers and moderators 🙌

45+ amazing humans came together last night for the @eChaiVentures event at Draper Startup House in #Singapore to learn, share experiences, connect with each other, and to grow together as a community.

🇸🇬 Singapore: Unleashing our inner tigers 🐅 It was fantastic to meet a delegation of 18 Startups from India who visited us at Draper Startup House #singapore today

Organised by Carve Startup Labs 🚀
➡ Alisha Davis
➡ Vishnu Nagaraj

Startup Delegation:
➡ Ramees Ali, Founder of Interval
➡ Dipti Sundar Mohanty, Founder of Mo Ambulance
➡ Midhun A kunj, Founder of Vowels 9M Healthcare Private Limited
➡ Soumya Bhattacharya, Founder of SustLabs
➡ Bhavana M., Founder of Bert Labs
➡ Sreenivas Paluvuri, Founder of VEHITO
➡ Bikash Mohanty, Founder of Smaket Solutions Pvt Ltd
➡ Meenu Sasikumar, Founder of AMG Invest Financial Services
➡ Layak Singh, Founder of Artivatic.ai
➡ Rohit Kochar, Founder of Bert Labs
➡ Karan Deep Singh from Anscer Robotics
➡ Sarat Tadanki from JK Nanosolutions
➡ Jitendra Saini, Cofounder of AquaAirX
➡ Prabhu Stavarmath from Bharat Pi
➡ Havish Sreenath from Infiction Labs
➡ Jayasudan Munsamy, Founder of DeepVisionTech.AI
➡ Raghavendra G. Shetty from RDL Technologies Pvt Ltd
➡ Susheel Chilashetty, Founder of Rootstart

Thank you to the wonderful speakers:
➡ Jaclyn Benstead
➡ Ashish Jain
➡ Anna Joke Breimer Bharati

🇸🇬 Singapore: Attention all  #productmanagers in #Singapore! Join the 'Product Connect' event hosted by The Product Folks and Draper Startup House.

RSVP at https://lu.ma/TPFSingapore.