Why Are Most Startups Not Able To Raise Series-A Funding?

Most startups, even those who get angel funding or seed-stage funding or investments from accelerators/incubators, are unable to get follow-on funding. Why is Series-A funding so elusive? When Angel Investors invest in a startup, they do so after assessing whether the startup will be able to raise follow-on capital. That's how they have a chance of getting an exit for their investments. Why then, are startups not able to raise follow-on...

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Webinar on Legal Aspects While Raising Series A

Webinar at 3:00pm-4:00pm, on Friday, 19th December 2014 Are you a startup gearing up for Series A funding? Have you completed all your legal  paperwork and formalities? Arm yourself with the knowledge of the entire legal deal and  ensure a smooth sailing for your startup. Click here to Register Join us for insights and perspectives from Payal Chawla and Anurag Kapoor    Anurag Kapoor Excutive Director GHV Accelerator View...

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What is Proof of Concept or POC?

Proof of Concept or POC, as the name indicates, is a test that provides evidence that the hypothesis on that concept has been proven. In business context, especially startups, POC could be a - hypothesis around a technology innovation, service, value proposition, price-point, business model or anything that needs to be proven or demonstrated. For example, if you are building a software or hardware product, a POC could be done...

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What is Proof of Concept or POC? (ENTREPRENEUR INDIA)

Proof of Concept or POC, as the name indicates, is a test that provides evidence that the hypothesis on that concept has been proven. In business context, especially startups, POC could be a - hypothesis around a technology innovation, service, value proposition, price-point, business model or anything that needs to be proven or demonstrated. For example, if you are building a software or hardware product, a POC could be done to demonstrate that the product works and performs the tasks that it is intended to do. In addition, when...

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Webinar on Unable Failed to get Series A funding

Are you a startup gearing up for Series A funding? Or are you a startup that tried and failed? Either way, hear the experts share their views on what could go or could have gone wrong. Watch this for insights and perspectives from Vikram Upadhyaya and Deepak Srinath – Mentors who have helped startups reach and close Series A, and beyo...

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Green House Ventures Accelerator ties up with LetsVenture

Green House Ventures Accelerator ties up with LetsVenture Gurgaon-based Green House Ventures (GHV) Accelerator has joined hands with deal discovery platform LetsVenture(LV) in a collaborative model to create easier access to capital for seed ventures. "LetsVenture has access to good quality startups. With this partnership we will get access to good curated startups, and it reduces our time frame for evaluation since one level of curation...

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Green House Ventures Accelerator ties up with LetsVenture (Economic Times)

Gurgaon-based Green House Ventures (GHV) Accelerator has joined hands with deal discovery platform LetsVenture(LV) in a collaborative model to create easier access to capital for seed ventures. "LetsVenture has access to good quality startups. With this partnership we will get access to good curated startups, and it reduces our time frame for evaluation since one level of curation will be done," said Anurag Kapoor, executive director and co-founder, GHV. For startups listed on LetsVenture, this partnership gives them access...

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How to raise funding for a prototype? (ENTREPRENEUR INDIA)

In the context of a startup, a prototype should be anything that will help you to demonstrate that not just the product, but also whether the intended users of the product are actually as excited about the product as you are. A prototype is something that allows you to test the various assumptions that you have made for your venture. A prototype has to be a very basic version of your product – just enough to give your consumers a feel of what you are building or something that will demonstrate that your technology or innovation actually works. Most...

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Why are most startups not able to raise Series-A funding?

Most startups, even those who get angel funding or seed-stage funding or investments from accelerators/incubators, are unable to get follow-on funding. Why is Series-A funding so elusive? When Angel Investors invest in a startup, they do so after assessing whether the startup will be able to raise follow-on capital. That’s how they have a chance of getting an exit for their investments. Why then, are startups not able to raise follow-on capital despite the mentoring and advice they receive from their angel investors...

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Team, the most important ingredient in a start-up (ENTREPRENEUR INDIA)

Ask any investor or successful entrepreneur, and they will reiterate that the most important factor in a start-up is the quality of its founding team. A team is more important than the idea or the size of the market or the technology or the business case, or indeed any other factor that investors will review to check the investment-worthiness of a venture. Even if  - the product is great; the technology is cutting-edge; the market is large and the company has a strong chance to be a dominant player in that large market - investors will...

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Green House Ventures Accelerator partners with Japanese VC fund World Innovation Lab (Economic Times)

Delhi-based Green House Ventures (GHV) Accelerator, which launched operations earlier this month, has inked a partnership with (WiL), a Japan-based venture capital fund that invests in disruptive startups with global appeal. WiL helps startups bridge the gap between their home markets and US markets and this partnership marks its entry into the Indian startup ecosystem. WiL is founded by serial technology and internet entrepreneur Gen Isayama and ex-chief incubation officer of Yahoo, Masataka Matsumoto, who will both come on board as mentors...

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Angel Investor Vikram Upadhyaya Launches Green House Ventures (GHV) Accelerator (Economic Times)

Entrepreneur and angel investor Vikram Upadhyaya has launched Green House Ventures Accelerator (GHV), which will fund and mentor startups between the incubation and venture capital stages. "GHV will house startups at pre-venture capital stage but post incubation," said Upadhyaya, chief mentor at GHV who has invested in companies like Druva, Stayzilla, Merinews, IndiaCollegesearch. "They should have gone through an incubator or passed the criteria of an incubation stage, proof of concept, paying customers,...

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Govt ropes in advisor for stuck telecom projects (The Hindu Business Line)

The Government has roped in Vikram Upadhyaya, Co-Founder of the Indian Angel Network Incubator, as an advisor to projects being undertaken through the Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE). The primary objective of roping in Upadhyaya is to ensure that the ideas generated by TCOEs are taken from conception to commercial deployment based on sound business. The Government had set up TCOEs in a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership in the telecom sector. There are eight Telecom Centres of Excellence across the country working on key issues...

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