Latest News – If you happened to be in Hangzhou on a crisp spring morning in late March, you would have witnessed an unusual spectacle: two busloads of Indian startup founders arriving at Alibaba HQ, posing for group selfies, and taking a guided tour of China’s biggest internet success.
The entourage consisted mainly of startups from the portfolio of Blume Ventures, one of India’s earliest and most active seed-stage funds. They were accompanied by both the co-founders and managing partners of Blume – Karthik Reddy and Sanjay Nath.
If not now, when?
Karthik and Sanjay founded Blume in 2010 after connecting as fellow Mumbai angels. They had a lot in common: graduating from premier engineering colleges IIT Roorkee and BITS Pilani, going to the US for MBAs at Wharton and UCLA, working for US multi-nationals like American Express and IBM.
It’s only recently, with the domestic market getting saturated and hyper-competitive, that the Chinese have looked over the Himalayas separating the giant neighbors that (Read More)
