My mentors were Ishpreet Singh Gandhi; Abhinav Suri.
I will announce soon my next role in the startup ecosystem.
I spent 8 years at BookMyForex, the company where I entered the startup ecosystem.
The founding team includes Sudarshan Motwani, Nitin Motwani and Manik Varshney.
BookMyForex peaked at $100 cr GMV in 2016, with 100 % of it sourced from our website.
By 2022, Stride Ventures was one of India’s biggest venture‑debt funds.
All In Capital has backed over 50 companies as of 2022.
I quit Stride because I realised I didn’t enjoy venture debt as much, and I can’t succeed in something if I’m not enjoying every single minute of it.
The moment I knew I wanted to do VC was when I invested in MasterChow.
- Founder team: Vidur Kataria, Sidhanth Madan, Radhika Mittal
I started at BookMyForex in 2012 (when there were barely ten seed VCs in India), saw an acquisition by MakeMyTrip, then spent 2017‑2020 working free with founders, took a BD role at Amazon’s startup program, later joined Stride Ventures (which “changed everything”), and now I’m at All In Capital backing founders with empathy and humility.
- 2012: BookMyForex – early‑stage, ultra‑scarce VC ecosystem.
- Post‑acquisition: restarted by meeting founders, working for free.
- 2017: Amazon startup program BD role – “open a door”.
- Stride Ventures: pivotal career shift.
- All In Capital: philosophy “empathy and humility matter more than pedigree”.
I observed a surge of operators, angels, and creators launching funds in India and distilled four recurring challenges when moving from angel investing to running a formal fund.
- Assumed angel flow would continue – it didn’t.
Talk to 3 fund managers before you set up your structure.
Ask them what they wish they knew before their first raise.
- Operational brutality – compliance, reporting, and deal‑flow management are far from the romantic back‑the‑founder vibe.
- LP management is a full‑time job.
- Raising from LPs demands trust, consistency, and a clear thesis; first closes often take months longer than expected.