# Career Journey Into Venture Capital

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I often say that the startup ecosystem rewards you for the time you spend working for it, and your returns exponentially go up the longer you stay in the game. Over the past nine years I have rolled the dice multiple times – starting as an entrepreneur, working at a global large tech company, and building India’s leading venture‑debt fund – before founding All In Capital.

The startup ecosystem rewards you for the time you spend working for it.

Your returns exponentially go up the longer you stay in the game.

I have spent nine years in the startup ecosystem.

My career includes rolling the dice multiple times, starting as an entrepreneur, working at a global large tech company, and building India’s leading venture‑debt fund.

I pursued angel investing as a weekend job because I loved working with early‑stage founders.

I decided to engage in angel investing despite it being a side activity, driven by personal enjoyment of collaborating with early‑stage founders.

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.

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