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Prasanna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
391 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

To help them cross that, uh, kind of an initial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Just one and a half years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So 2021 is when we wrote our first check.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Before that, we were only an accelerator.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

We were only helping folks with actually building the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So only once we proved out that we could help folks to build a business without any capital, we said some of the startups need some capital at the early stage because otherwise everybody is working on fumes because they're going, getting some revenue, coming back, spending it, going, getting some revenue, coming back, spending it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Then we decided to add a layer of capital after we proved that, yes, we can take startups that are at near zero, help them get to scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So as an example, one of the startups that came to us,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

They were at literally $1,500 MRR, $2,000 MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Today, they're at $60,000 MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And if you talk to them, their website, their copy, their emails, their marketing strategies, their positioning, what features are in the product, what they're selling, the values, all of that was stuff that they worked with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So almost all of our startups are selling globally.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

They may be headquartered in Delaware or they may be headquartered in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

But most of them are actually Delaware headquarters with subsidiaries in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So most of our investors are actually SaaS founders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Yep, yep, yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

We have one large anchor LP called Westbridge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

This is an Angelus Rolling Fund.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So that's the model that we're still on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Most of them have been strategic acquirers, not too large.