In this episode of Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sat down with Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner and Investor at Antler India, to discuss his professional journey.

00:00 Intro
02:13 Leaving Urbanladder
03:27 Moving on to Antler
09:42 How Antler India started?
15:04 Meeting cofounder(s)
16:46 How to start a VC firm?
21:39 Antler's Business Model
26:38 Founder Hat to Investor Hat
28:33 Antler India's sectoral focus
30:27 India: Building for the world
34:01 Being flexible as an investor
37:10 Future plans

Rajiv Srivatsa started his professional career with corporate roles in companies like Infosys, Congizant and Yahoo.

He started Urbanladder in 2012 with his IIMB batchmate Ashish Goel and ran it for almost 7 years. At it's peak company was valued at over 1 Billion dollars.

In 2019, Urbanladder was acquired by Reliance and Rajiv moved on to his next adventure.

During this time he was approached by Antler Global team to start Antler in India and Rajiv along with his cofounder Nitin, started Antler India in June of 2020.

Antler India partners with earlystage founders to build scalable startups, by guiding them through the entire process from inception to raising a Series A. They offer a stipend of Rs 1 lakh and a preseed fund after 10 weeks for selected startups.

Rajiv's plan for the near future is to strengthen entrepreneurship in India through Antler, and he feels startups are the way for our country to progress.

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