Anant Vidur Puri has seen the markets in China and Indonesia from close quarters, and worked in the US for a large part of his career. For the past three years, he has been in India as a Partner with venture capital firm Bessemer.
He sits on the boards of Travel Triangle, Cashify, and Remedinet, apart from being involved with Urban Company, Swiggy, and StayGlad.
In this interview with YourStory, Anant talks about Bessemer Venture Partners’ latest $220 million India fund.
YourStory: How much has Bessemer invested in India, prior to the latest fund of $220 million?
Over the past 15 years, we have invested between $700 million and 800 million in approximately 60 ventures.
YS: What has been the Bessemer philosophy of investing in startups?
We follow what we call the ‘roadmap-driven’ approach to investing, which means that we are stage-agnostic. We can come in at the seed, series A, series B, series C across the range as long as the company fits our roadmap.
To give you an example, we…
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