The document discusses the changing landscape of angel investing in India, highlighting that approximately 200-300 startups receive funding annually despite a large potential market. Key factors impacting funding include limited access to investors and long investment lead times, though there is a rising interest in early-stage funding with new capital sources emerging. Let’s Venture aims to simplify and enhance the startup funding ecosystem by connecting startups with investors and facilitating online engagement.

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Changing Landscape of Angel
Investing
Startup Funding Made Easy
Manish Singhal, Founder & CEO
@manish_saarthi

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Incredible
India
Population
1,23,70,00,000
(17.5%
of
world
populaltion)

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Incredible
India
Population
1,23,70,00,000
(17.5%
of
world
populaltion)
Babies Born/Day
42,434

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Incredible
India
Population
1,23,70,00,000
(17.5%
of
world
populaltion)
Babies Born/Day
42,434
Engineers produced/Year
7,50,000

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Incredible
India
Population
1,23,70,00,000
(17.5%
of
world
populaltion)
Babies Born/Day
42,434
Engineers produced/Year
7,50,000
Voters in 2014 General Elections
81,40,00,000

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However…

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No.
of
startups
Funded
in
India
~200-­‐300
/
year
Source:
ventureintelligence
Unconfirmed
reports
say
~500-­‐700
Angel
Investors
in
India
0
50
100
150
200
250
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
Value
US$
Million
No.
of
Deals

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Current
Situation
Early Stage Funding in India is broken!
Hardly 200 investments a year!
WHY?

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Several
Factors
at
play
Limited
Access
to
Investors
Syndicating
deals
not
easy
for
an
Entrepreneur
Long
lead
times
on
closing
investment
rounds
Lack
of
Transparency

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Startup
Funding
Scenario
–
India
India
vs
USA
2012
|
200
deals
to
1,749
deals
2013
|
293
deals
to
1,858
deals
Startups
Funded
in
India
by
Sector

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There
is
a
hope
though!

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Things
that
will
define
the
Early
Stage
Funding
in
coming
days..
3

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One
NEW
FOUND
LOVE
FOR
STARTUPS
ESP
EARLY
STAGE

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New
Capital!
ì Folks
with
Disposable
Income
With
syndication
platforms
available,
the
average
contribution
is
coming
to
~5L
INR
per
deal

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New
Capital!
ì Folks
with
Disposable
Income
With
syndication
platforms
available,
the
average
contribution
is
coming
to
~5L
INR
per
deal
ì Number
of
lead
investors
are
increasing

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New
Capital!
ì Folks
with
Disposable
Income
With
syndication
platforms
available,
the
average
contribution
is
coming
to
~5L
INR
per
deal
ì Number
of
lead
investors
are
increasing
ì Institutional
Investors
are
getting
involved
in
early
stage
deals
5
deals
out
of
10
had
an
institutional
investor

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New
Capital!
ì Folks
with
Disposable
Income
With
syndication
platforms
available,
the
average
contribution
is
coming
to
~5L
INR
per
deal
ì Number
of
lead
investors
are
increasing
ì Institutional
Investors
are
getting
involved
in
early
stage
deals
4
deals
out
of
10
had
an
institutional
investor
ì Increased
M
&
A
activity
Little
Eye
Labs,
CoolTok
etc
iSprit
initiative

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Two
INCREASING
FOCUS
ON
DOMESTIC
MARKET
&
B2B

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Domestic
Market
&
B2B
ì Increasing
interest
from
investors
to
look
at
“India
Story”
Startups
focusing
on
serving
India
is
picking
traction
Servesy,
OnlineRTI

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Domestic
Market
&
B2B
ì Increasing
interest
from
investors
to
look
at
“India
Story”
Startups
focusing
on
serving
India
are
picking
traction
Servesy,
OnlineRTI
ì B2B
startups
are
getting
more
traction
Increased
acceptance
from
businesses
to
work
with
startups
POSist,
FRROLE

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Three
PLATFORMS
ARE
ENABLING
DISCOVERY
ACROSS
GEOGRAPHIES

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BlueGape

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OnlineRTI

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Scenario
Investors
are
comfortable
looking
at
details
of
the
startups
and
committing
online
Startups
are
comfortable
in
putting
their
key
details
and
making
connections
to
Global
Investors

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§ Founded
-­‐
May
2013
§ Private
Beta
Launched
-­‐
Sept
2013
§ Public
Beta
Launched
-­‐
Dec
5
2013
STARTUP
FUNDING
MADE
EASY
ü Make
Early
Stage
Funding
for
Startups
easy
for
the
Indian
ecosystem
ü Enable
a
Connected
Startup
Ecosystem
(Discover,
Connect,
Build)
LetsVenture

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LetsVenture
in
last
10
months
1401
Startups
585
Investors
255
478
107
from
16
countries
Actively
Fundraising
Angel
Investors
Institutional
Investor
700+
Investor
Connections
Made
14.57
Cr
Total
Funds
Committed
101
Investors
Participated
in
10
deals

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Platform
Traction
1272
Startups
561
Investors
234
457
104
from
16
countries
Actively
Fundraising
Angel
Investors
Institutional
Investor
700+
Investor
Connections
Made
12.25
Cr
Total
Funds
Committed
82
Investors
Participated
in
9
deals
7
Days
To close first syndicate – bluegape.com
9
Syndicates Closed Recently
12
Cr
Funding Committed so far – Online

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Angel
Trends
on
LV

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-­‐
Funded
&
Announced
Last
10
Months
–
Startups
we
made
a
difference
to..

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Thank You!
Manish
Singhal
manish@letsventure.com
www.letsventure.com
Startup Funding Made Easy