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Investing in India is very nascent. I think You need to have a fully working company with customers to raise seed money. We have planned 5 products in our suit
by neilxdsouza 13y ago
Investing in India is very nascent. I think You need to have a fully working company with customers to raise seed money.
We have planned 5 products in our suite, 1 of which is in production use and 3 in advanced prototype and it was not enough to get into an accelerator program.
Also not sure if angel investors here understand what is seed money. Currently in the US, seed money that YC offers is about 11k to 18k USD. The angel firm we were speaking to mentioned an amount of about INR 10 million (which is way above even the US amount as seed).
INR 0.5 mil would be enough as seed money here, but I think nobody wants to take this early stage risk here.
We have eventually got into an accelerator program at iim-a, but that is because we won a contest.
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- ankit_oberoi 13y agoCorrect. The Investor mindset is a bit different and they look for more safer bets.
- LekkoscPiwa 13y agoThank you for your replies. It's very similar to this, here in Poland. The emerging markets have a lot of common characteristics. However, I didn't expect risk taking aversion to be one of them. Maybe just an "American thing" to be bold and take risks. Might be this that can't be replicated elsewhere :-(
- ankit_oberoi 13y agoumm.. I think its more to do with time. Someone sometime in your region will fund that crazy start up, waiting to explode. Others will follow suit after that.