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Podcast: The Desi VC with Akash Bhat
Episode: E40: Vinod Shankar (Partner, Java Capital)
Description: Vinod Shankar is the Co-Founder and Partner at Java Capital, an investment syndicate investing in sectors such as healthtech, consumer internet, deep tech, SaaS and EdTech. Prior to founding Java Capital, Vinod was the Associate Vice President at Kalaari Capital and before that was the Head of Sales & Marketing at Just Books Inc. In this episode we cover:Why launch an investment fund in the middle of the pandemic? (1:57)Challenges of raising a fund during the pandemic? (5:29)Vinod’s journey into VC (11:23)How do you do cold outreach to VC...