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Anupam Rastagi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

If we had one or two or three companies that were to exit for the billions of dollars, that's what really creates returns for our own investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So we are really gunning for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Of course, not all 22 or 25 companies will get there or even close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

But in every company, we are looking for that ability of that company and the vision of the founder

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

which would get them to potentially half a billion to a billion type exit, 100 million ARR, let's put it that way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So if we see something where we think the probability of that is higher, let's say a typical company maybe has 5% likelihood of getting there and we're investing, but if we see some company has more than that, so it's low in absolute terms, but it's higher than the rest, then

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

able to stretch, but I'd say, yeah, we rarely do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

We try and just come in super early.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

We're happy to form a conviction before others, before the deal is hard, before other people are able to hang their hat on, before there's a lot of numbers and we're able to, it's a vast majority with single digit valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Yeah, quite a wide range, safe rounds, pretty clean.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

We can do it in as little as a few days and we have done it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

And then in some cases where there's complex, you know, we have quite a few cross geography companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So all our companies are US market focused, but we have quite a few companies that are building in places like India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

We also have companies from places like, you know, Europe and other places.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So sometimes those require more work and more legal review.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

And sometimes they may require changing the structure, which the funders anyway plan to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

And those could take, you know, a few months to three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

That's a median is probably three, four weeks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

Combination.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works

So we have a few institutions that are investors, which are bulk of the capital is from those institutions.