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E133: Navin Honagudi (Managing Partner, Elev8 Venture Partners)

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Navin Honagudi is the Managing Partner at Elev8 Venture Partners, an India-focused $200M Growth-stage fund. Elev8 focuses on Series B and C rounds of financing in hyper growth companies. He bring 18+ years of experience investing in early and growth stage technology firms and also held the positions of Co-founder and Partner at Kae Capital.

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Episode Notes:

  1. Introduction (1:48)
  2. How Naveen entered venture capital (2:24)
  3. Comparing entrepreneurs: 2000s vs. today (4:45)
  4. Indian VC landscape & expected exits/returns in the 2000s (8:38)
  5. What Elev8 looks for in founders (11:45)
  6. Why India is exciting today (18:01)
  7. Opportunities in offline to online transition in India (25:30)
  8. Emerging sectors like faith-tech (28:15)
  9. Next billion dollar opportunities: alcohol, sex-tech, betting, gaming (32:25)
  10. Summarizing investment experiences: CVC, consumer VC, and growth-stage VC (37:25)
  11. Investing in early-stage vs. growth-stage (42:15)
  12. Advice Naveen would give his younger self (45:28)

. . .

Social Links:

  1. Follow ⁠⁠⁠Navin on Twitter⁠⁠⁠
  2. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠Navin on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠
  3. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Desi VC on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠
  4. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠Akash Bhat on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠
  5. Follow ⁠⁠⁠Akash Bhat on LinkedIn
  continue reading

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Manage episode 428159616 series 2769558
Content provided by Akash Bhat. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Akash Bhat or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

Navin Honagudi is the Managing Partner at Elev8 Venture Partners, an India-focused $200M Growth-stage fund. Elev8 focuses on Series B and C rounds of financing in hyper growth companies. He bring 18+ years of experience investing in early and growth stage technology firms and also held the positions of Co-founder and Partner at Kae Capital.

. . .

Episode Notes:

  1. Introduction (1:48)
  2. How Naveen entered venture capital (2:24)
  3. Comparing entrepreneurs: 2000s vs. today (4:45)
  4. Indian VC landscape & expected exits/returns in the 2000s (8:38)
  5. What Elev8 looks for in founders (11:45)
  6. Why India is exciting today (18:01)
  7. Opportunities in offline to online transition in India (25:30)
  8. Emerging sectors like faith-tech (28:15)
  9. Next billion dollar opportunities: alcohol, sex-tech, betting, gaming (32:25)
  10. Summarizing investment experiences: CVC, consumer VC, and growth-stage VC (37:25)
  11. Investing in early-stage vs. growth-stage (42:15)
  12. Advice Naveen would give his younger self (45:28)

. . .

Social Links:

  1. Follow ⁠⁠⁠Navin on Twitter⁠⁠⁠
  2. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠Navin on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠
  3. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Desi VC on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠
  4. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠Akash Bhat on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠
  5. Follow ⁠⁠⁠Akash Bhat on LinkedIn
  continue reading

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