The 2019 Agenda For India’s Startups And Venture Capital
7 Jan 2019 5:49 AM GMT
India?s startups have raised the bar. We now need the government to support its words with real actions, writes Sanjay Nath.
- Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart validated for the Indian ecosystem that funding life cycles work, with every significant stakeholder making money.
- It would help the entire ecosystem to see portfolio—and thus fund—life cycles move to maturation in 2019 and beyond, as LP distributions usually translate to more LPs backing VCs, and in turn, startups, with deeper conviction.
- Amidst this wishful thinking list – the growing occurrences of angel tax and other cumbersome rules and regulations being imposed by our (otherwise startup-minded and friendly) government need to be rectified and streamlined immediately.
- SaaS and enterprise software, the core of traditional India B2B will continue, but a sharp focus on vertical and horizontal specialisation will be key (e.g. again Tricog and Sigtuple in healthcare-AI).
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