| A periodical round up of all things exciting at Cornerstone Ventures! Learn about our new investments, achievements by our portfolio companies and latest happenings at the fund. And also a few interesting reads that we have curated for you! |
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We are delighted to welcome aboard, Mystifly, a B2B SaaS platform for air travel businesses & airlines to carry out smooth distribution, fulfillment & payment services. With over 3Mn+ bookings from 3000+ clients, it has the ability to process 100Mn+ flight searches per day. It is an all in one operating system for any travel intermediary to start / grow their airline business giving access to global airlines, payments & channel management while saving costs & time for airlines. READ MORE. |
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Despite a rapid surge in tech developments, digital verification and validation processes tend to be slow and manual. Leveraging a blockchain-based infrastructure and application platform helps efficiently deal with these challenges, primarily building on the immutability and intrinsic security capabilities of such platforms. Our investment in Dhiway was driven by this very value proposition. Dhiway has built India's foremost private blockchain infrastructure platform that ensures large-scale data management, sharing and authentication with zero friction. READ MORE. |
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Sharpsell’s clients and other revenue leaders came together at #PowerPlay2023 to together unpack the secret of Sales Playbooks and discover how to create sales champions at scale. Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come." ~ Victor Hugo, inspired by this thought the team decided to unveil their very first Sales Playbooks with 450+ people in just 7 days! Find out how it went! Watch the Sharpsell Co-founder, Arun Subramanium share the journey. WATCH HERE. |
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The 2nd Annual NBFC and Fintech Excellence Awards 2023 hosted by Quantic India was a joyous evening celebrating the accomplishments of Indian financial firms in India. The financial services industry has seen dramatic changes in today’s digital age and the use of emerging technologies to simplify lending processes is becoming increasingly important. Keeping this in mind, these awards celebrated the companies that had made outstanding contributions. This recognition is a testament to Credilio’s foresight in building a truly democratized approach to digitizing financial services in India and their achievements with regards to the scale of impact they are creating in the financial services industry. READ MORE. |
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The ENTERPRISE NEXT accelerator program is for startups building the next generation of enterprise-ready business solutions such as software as a service (SaaS), at a time when India is rapidly becoming a global hub for such innovation. We have evaluated over 70 startups across 10+ industries and shortlisted 4 to join the first iteration of the program. This is an immersive program with intense mentoring covering product development, market access, customer development, pricing, revenue models and more. Designed as a ‘rolling-program’, we expect to nurture several new companies every 6 months, thus making our own little contribution in India’s journey to becoming the Enterprise tech leader of the world! KNOW MORE. |
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Elated to share that our Investment Director, Nanika Kakkar has been invited as key mentor in the Women In Investing (WII) Network. Nanika is excited to take up being a WII mentor and is keen to work with fellow women in the VC world. She truly believes in paying it forward and enjoys working with budding young women in the industry. We are looking forward to her contributions towards shaping careers of 100’s of young women in Investments & Financial Services. READ MORE. |
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Our Managing Partner and Co-founder, Rajiv Vaishnav is a part of the State Empowered Committee of the Maharashtra Innovation Society’s (MSInS), and has been instrumental in the review and evaluation of the performance of each MSInS Incubators. In the 3rd Annual meeting of the Committee recommended subsequent grants to be disbursed to incubators periodically and approved the expenditure budgets of incubators. READ MORE. |
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It began in 2019 with our Investment Director, Nanika Kakkar, who was the first woman to join the founding team. And we set out on an aim to improve diversity in the team. Today our team strength includes women who lead finance, administration, marketing and investment research. Here’s to celebrating the power of women who make our workplace better every day! Standing - (l)Sona Jain/(r)Surabhi Salunke; Seated (l - r) Richa Thakur, Ashwini, Payal Punatar, Nanika Kakkar |
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The Fragile Breaks; the Resilient Endures; the Antifragile Strengthens! Be it the technology sector, or the Indian economy, both have shown antifragility through tough macro-economic times. We have intrinsically adopted antifragility in our investment thesis & allocation strategies resulting in an Antifragile cohort of portfolio companies. Our companies have grown from strength to strength every time they have been confronted with difficult situations be it a global pandemic, or the global economic turmoil, or the current banking crisis – our companies have demonstrated unwavering antifragility every time! Read more in the blog authored by our Investment Director, Vatsal Bavishi. READ MORE. |
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