KARTHIK REDDY

We like sitting with the founder till the IPO baton has passed. That's our DNA.

There are two kinds of founders we back: those solving large, uniquely Indian problems by tapping into the country's dense network of micro-entrepreneurship, and those building global products with the ambition to compete beyond India.

Fifteen years is what you should consider the active VC build-out in India. For the first five to seven years, we were kind of faking it till we make it.

I feel this IPO price optimisation is a silly exercise and I keep telling founders, what's your gain in this? You're the one holding the bag.