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Podcast: VC10X - Investing, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Private Equity, Family Office
Episode: VC10X - VCs need to keep founders in check - Avik Ashar, Principal, Artha Venture Fund
Description: Avik Ashar has been building or investing in businesses for the past 12 years. He is currently a Principal @ Artha Venture Fund, focused on early-stage investments (seed - series A) in India.
He previously ran a single-family office for the Sutariya family, based in Bombay, investing across India & SEA and scaled Zilingo across 5 geographies, $100mn P&L responsibility with a team of 60, and raised $280mn for the business. He also founded a SaaS startup in the auto insurance space (exited).
In this episode, we talk about -
- How Artha prefers a "Company friendly" approach and not a "...