Long-form conversations with the founders, operators and investors building India's harder companies: robotics and silicon, credit and insurance, supply chains and studios.
IIT Madras and Unicorn India Ventures have closed ₹450 crore of a deep tech fund of up to ₹1,000 crore, with a window into the institute's labs. Bhaskar Majumdar on valuing companies with no cash flow, hiring PhDs over MBAs, and investing outside the big three metros.
Read the deep dive →Nine clips on who to sell to, how the sale actually runs, and what compounds
Follow the path →From whether to raise at all to the terms you will live under
Follow the path →Frames first, then build or buy, then the deployments that pay for themselves
Follow the path →Market maps, the numbers under the first order, and distribution that does not burn
Follow the path →Instruments, capital ladders and the numbers a funder should ask for
Follow the path →Build order, non-dilutive money, hardware GTM and the regulator you did not plan for
Follow the path →Every conversation is tagged and weighted into six families. See which themes hold the catalogue together, and pull any thread to find the episodes and clips behind it.
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UpStreamVoice is a series of long-form conversations with the founders, operators and investors building India's harder companies: robotics and silicon, credit and insurance, supply chains and studios. We go upstream of the headline, to how the thing was actually built.
Every episode ships with a listening lab: a sixty-second brief, the ideas worth carrying into your own work, and the lines worth keeping. The flagship dives add the numbers drawn as charts and the hour mapped chapter by chapter.
