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Scaling at Lightspeed - A Startup Story from the Operations Side
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to scale a consumer brand from ₹50 crore to ₹500 crore in two years - in a country where the consumer changes every 50 kilometer...
20 Years of Building India's Venture Ecosystem
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to build one of India's most resilient venture firms - in an ecosystem where exits were considered impossible? 🇮🇳Sudhir Se...
Data Driven Playbook: Behind Purplle's Unicorn Journey
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to build a billion-dollar beauty brand in a country where everything changes every 100 kilometers? 🇮🇳Manish Taneja, Co-founder...
Venture Alignment, Power Laws, and the Quiet Math Behind Fund Performance
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Rikhtegar of RBCx has been dissecting the venture ecosystem with surgeon-level precision lately.Two of his recent analyses — on GP-LP alignment...
Frontiers of HardTech
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The headlines on American manufacturing have it wrong.The story isn’t just about tariffs or reshoring incentives.The real headline is the trillion-d...
Startup Equity: Reading the Fine Print of the Startup Promise
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, the startup promise was simple:Join early. Take less salary. Share in the upside.It sounded like a fair trade — until the fine print appe...
Secondaries in Venture
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who doesn’t love a hustle story? Especially in venture capital.This one starts in 2009, with Jared Carmel helping a Facebook employee cash out their...
Europe’s Venture Moment: Inside redalpine’s Playbook
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been waiting for this one. What do - two decades of startup investing, the European moment, democratisation of venture capital, and growth sta...
The Reindustrialization Moment for the U.S.
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, investing in US supply chain and manufacturing tech felt like swimming against the tide. Non-consensus, long sales cycles, hardware ris...
The Blitzhire Acquisition
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The most puzzling thing about Blitzhire acquisitions isn’t that they’re expensive.It’s that they’re deliberately inefficient.Billions flow thr...
Global Indian Alpha – with Shwetank Verma from Leo Capital
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Until recently, “venture capital in India” was shorthand for consumer apps, low-cost data, and billion-user TAM slides. Payments, e-commerce, food...
Operator Edge in the New VC Landscape (with Noah Lichtenstein from Crossover VC))
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Lichtenstein has a simple but sharp take on venture right now:Capital is commoditized. Edge comes from operators.The irony is hard to ignore. Ven...
One Trillion in Women-Led Wealth
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what really drives systemic change in venture — not lofty slogans, but the small, structural choices that compoun...
Surviving Series-A Fundraise
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Series A used to be the “first real round.” Today it looks more like the old Series B.The shift is measurable. Median Series A round size in the U...
Geopolitics in European Venture (with Henry Palmer from Lightridge)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most surprising “turnaround” stories right now isn’t a brand. It’s a region: Europe.For decades, Europe played the background track...
Rethinking VC Fund-of-Funds with Data, AI, and Algorithms (with Albert Azout from Level Ventures)
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, venture capital’s edge came from being in the room.The right dinners, the right syndicates, the right backchannels.But are those edges ...
Indian Startup IPO Dynamics
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024, India’s startup IPO market was on fire.Thirteen new-age tech companies — from Swiggy to Ola Electric — went public raising around US$3....
Founder's Stop Reimbursing Your VC's Legal Fees
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🔥 Excited to announce the launch of TheOnePoint — Sharp Takes.A new, punchier podcast format that is shorter, sharper, and yet impactful.And in t...
Democratization of Venture with Cali Chill from OurCrowd ($2.3 Billion Committed)
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I had a fascinating, in-depth conversation with Cali Chill, Chief Investment Officer at OurCrowd, covering a wide arc of the venture capital landscape...
Geopolitics in Venture Capital
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You may not care about geopolitics, but geopolitics cares about you.This hit me hard during my conversation with Larsen Jensen – former Navy SEAL, 2...
Shifting Dynamics of Venture Fund Management
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 From €10M to €1.2B+ — What It Takes to Scale a VC Firm (And What Comes Next)If you're Speedinvest, you don't just scale — you rei...
Indexing Venture Capital with Rob Hodgkinson
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most VCs believe data will transform every industry… except their own.That contradiction sparked something radical.Rob Hodgkinson, MD at SignalRank,...
The Rise of IndustrialTech Startups
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 Consumer tech is riding the wave. Industrial tech is building the next ocean.While consumer tech saturates, a trillion-dollar opportunity is hidi...
The Rise of the Robotics Startups
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🧠 “Humanoid robots? Overhyped. AI-powered cobots? Quietly making waves around the world.”That’s just one of the sharp takes from my latest ep...
Current Landscape for Emerging VC Managers with Matt Curtolo
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚨Venture capital isn’t broken. But emerging managers need to rethink their playbook.🎙️ I had a deep, no-BS conversation with Matt Curtolo, a...
Robotics Startups on the Rise
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 From University Halls to Leading the Robotics Revolution 🎙️ Just wrapped up an amazing podcast episode with Albane Dersy, co-founder of Inbo...
ClimateTech Founder Journey with Trine Young from Rodinia Generation
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 Building the Future of Fashion, One Shipping Container at a Time 🌍👕Imagine a world where clothes are manufactured anywhere, anytime, in the...
Female Founders Office Hours Initiative with Clare Zhang from Playfair Capital
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From an idea 💡to a thriving community💪🏼Playfair Capital’s remarkable journey with the Female Founders Office Hours (FFOH) initiative showca...
Venture Capital Research Demystified - with Lawrence Lundy from Lunar Ventures
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎯 The Hidden Engine Behind Top VC Funds: Research-First InvestingJust wrapped up a fascinating conversation withLawrence, Partner Research atLunar ...
Decoding Venture Capital Research
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Research: The Hidden Superpower in Venture Investing 🔥🚀 In any investment process, research is the cornerstone. It’s the critical tool that d...
Decoding Startup Valuations
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Valuations topic is confusing and sometimes outright stressful for founders. That’s why I invited Dan Gray, Head of insights of the Equidam platfor...
Female Foundry: A success story from the startup and venture ecosystem
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Success stories from the venture ecosystem and the inspiring Female Foundry community deserve to shine—and Agata’s story is a standout example. 💪...
ClimateTech Fundraising in India
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to successfully fundraise for a ClimateTech startup in India!? Get ready to uncover the answers to this key topic and explore many other insights ...
identity.vc's story of building a VC fund to back LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of TheOnePoint features Til Klein from identity.vc Til and I connected over a shared vision of supporting diversity in our venture ecos...
Quant VC, AI, and Data in the Venture Business
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of TheOnePoint podcast, I interview Guy Conway, co-founder of Koble, to explore how AI is reshaping venture capital. Guy highlights...
Diverse by Default - One Year Later
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last year in September, we published a unique report called ‘Diverse by Default’ (Link) in which we explored the What, the Why, and the How of the...
AI and Data in the Venture Business
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I explore the growing role of AI in the venture capital business with Gabriel Shin, co-founder of Landscape. Massive and rapid adv...
ClimateTech Fundraising
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss pre-seed ClimateTech fundraising with four founders - Johanna Broell from Carbonsate , Laura Laringe from reLi Energy , Ma...
Tech for Good in the VC business
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss Tech for Good concept in the venture capital business with Paul Miller OBE from Bethnal Green Ventures. Paul has been a p...
Growth stage VC investing in India
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss the Growth stage venture capital investing in India with Ashish Kumar from Fundamentum. There is so much to unravel on thi...