E146 - Operator (Founder of Cloudnine Hospitals) turned Institutional Investor w/PeerCapital's Rohit M A

Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

In this episode, we host Rohit M A, Managing Partner of PeerCapital and Co-Founder of Cloudnine Hospitals. Rohit M A is one of the OGs of the Indian Startup ecosystem, having Co-Founded Cloudnine Hospitals in 2006 and transforming maternity care. He is one of the few new age founders to have gone through institutional building, raising large scale capital from the likes of Matrix, Peak XV (previously Sequoia India), Temasek and the likes. Recently, he moved on from his active role at Cloudnine to start his own institutional fund - PeerCapital to invest in early stage founders. Through this detailed conversation, we uncover a bunch of learnings from Rohit's 17 year long journey of being a part of the ecosystem. His experience of having built an institution at scale and starting one now is very unique in many ways. Tune in for a phenomenal experience. LinkedIn Profile of Rohit M A - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitoncloud9/ LinkedIn Profile of Jivraj - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jivrajsinghsachar/ 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Founders turned Investors 05:16 - Why Founders turned Investors win? 07:47 - Founders knowing too much as an Investor 09:30 - How has Healthcare evolved? 18:47 - Tech Enabled Service Business Layers 25:24 - How to align objectives in Healthcare? 33:18 - Angel Investing Excellence 41:30 - What has changed in Angel Investing? 48:25 - Why the Investing Journey? 53:19 - The PeerCapital Story 57:58 - Right to Win for a new Fund 1:02:01 - Value Systems for Rohit 1:04:45 - Proof Points for Outlier Founders 1:07:39 - How do Founders define Rohit as an Investor? 1:10:30 - How do you manage to do the boring bits of your company? 1:14:10 - Learnings from the Journey!

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