We closed our partnership over a Gypsy handshake!

We closed our partnership over a Gypsy handshake!

Team Yap are down to earth founders with handshake quality! That’s just what we did – shook hands after 2-hour long meeting with the co-founders – Madhu, Muthu and Prabhu in mid-2019. This handshake is now often referred to as “Gypsy Handshake” (inspired by the...
I just had a great gut feeling about them!

I just had a great gut feeling about them!

Our journey with BharatPe like most of our other partnerships came through our network when one of our portfolio founders introduced us through email back in 2018. On my first hour-long call with Ashneer, CEO and Co-Founder, he presented his idea of how and why he...
Our very own local king

Our very own local king

My ties with Sendo goes way back to when the very idea of Sendo was being conceptualized. My mentor in Japan, Mr.Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO of SBI Holdings, was in talks with his Vietnamese business partner to set up an e-commerce business in 2011. This was an ambitious...