Country Focus: India is a hot bet but how to play it right?

  • Anurag Ramdasan, Partner, 3one4 Capital
  • Veenu Mittal, Partner & CFO, Anicut Capital
  • Anup Jain, Founding Partner, India focused Early Stage VC
  • Rahul Shah, Partner, EvolutionX
  • Vibhuti Sharma, India Correspondent, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has weathered challenges over the past eighteen months, including mass layoffs, accounting discrepancies, and inflated valuations, leading to substantial investor losses. Nevertheless, fund managers remain undeterred, focusing on supporting companies with robust unit economics. Furthermore, the active capital raising by fund managers has meant that dry powder, readily available for deployment, has reached new peaks. Do these trends signal confidence in India’s long-term investment prospects?