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By 2031, over a million mid-sized companies in India will need automation for finance workflows. While companies strive for order and growth, outdated finance operations often lead to complexity and inefficiency.
With Mysa, Arpita Kapoor and Mohit Rangaraju are transforming how businesses manage their finances. With their deep understanding of customer pain points and a stellar team to execute, Mysa is perfectly positioned to build this future.
Read our latest blog to know more about Mysa:
neon.fund/blog/why-neon-invested-in-mysa/
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Congratulations to the SpotDraft team on their $54M Series B raise!
As the leading CLM platform empowering in-house legal teams, SpotDraft is transforming how contracts are managed at scale. We at Neon Fund are proud to be part of their journey and excited to see them continue redefining the legal tech space.
Read more about their mission here: lnkd.in/gxTFPhK8
Shashank Bijapur | Madhav Bhagat | Rohith Salim
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In 1995, Masayoshi Son, often referred to as Masa made one of his first bold investments— a $100 million for a 30% stake in Yahoo. This helped SoftBank enter the U.S. market and establish Yahoo Japan, which became hugely successful.
In 1999, Masa made an even bigger move, investing $20 million in Alibaba, a year-old e-commerce startup.
At the time, few believed in the potential of e-commerce in China.
But Masa’s belief paid off. Over 23 years, that investment turned into a $72 billion gain, making it one of the most successful tech investments ever.
SoftBank continued to back some of the biggest names in tech, including Uber, WeWork, Slack, and DoorDash. In 2014, he brought in Alok Sama who had a key role in some of SoftBank’s biggest successes, like the $32 billion acquisition of ARM and the $59 billion Sprint-T-Mobile merger. He also helped SoftBank make big moves in India, investing in companies like Ola and Snapdeal.
In this episode of The Neon Show, Alok Sama, a former President and CFO of SoftBank, takes us behind the scenes of his journey at SoftBank, where he played a crucial role in shaping the group's global investments and strategy. Alok shares insights into working alongside Masayoshi Son, the dynamics of managing the Vision Fund, and the challenges of betting on transformative entrepreneurs.
Tune in now!
https://youtu.be/6znktav8TPE?feature=...
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"Learn to Sell, Learn to Build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."
Shikhil Sharma and Ananda Krishna are a founder-duo who excel at both.
A testament to this fact is that, at such an early stage of their journey, they have over 650 customers, of which ~75% are inbound.
Read our latest blog to know more about the journey and mission of Astra Security: neon.fund/blog/why-neon-invested-in-astra-security…
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Watch our ep on the fascinating history of semiconductors, their evolution over the years, the rise of old giants and new disruptors, and explore why India has yet to produce a leader in one of the most important technological races of all time.
Raja Manickam, a serial entrepreneur in the semiconductor industry, shares from his decades of experience about the business and science of semiconductors and offers a glimpse into the future.
Tune in now!
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The founders of TrueGradient have worked on supply chain optimization systems at Amazon, Walmart, Fidelity, Dunzo, and Mondelēz, managing $200B+ in daily sales.
They realized that while giants can afford large data science teams, most consumer goods, retail, and e-commerce companies cannot—despite supply chain inefficiencies costing them millions in lost revenue.
Read our latest blog to understand how Ankur, Siddharth, Namrata and Jasneet are solving this complex problem at scale for mid-sized companies here:
neon.fund/blog/why-neon-invested-in-truegradient/
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Two years ago, Neon and the Gallabox founders decided that this journey would be more rewarding—and a lot more fun—together.
Since then, I’ve watched Gallabox build one of the best GTM teams across India, the Middle East, and LATAM for AI-powered SMB solutions.
Together, we’ve scaled from early revenues to multi-million-dollar growth.
Karthik, Yathindhar, Yogesh and I have had tens of lunch meetings over delicious thalis at Nagarjuna in Bengaluru.
We had many hours long discussions and workshops on building a world class GTM team. And credit to their impeccable execution—today, Gallabox runs one of the strongest GTM engines sitting out of Dubai and Chennai and serves thousands of businesses across 45+ countries, powering over 200M conversations.
Congrats to the team on raising their seed round from one of Seattle’s top VCs!
And Neon Fund is proud to double down—both in effort and investment—as we work towards making Gallabox a $100M ARR company, putting Chennai on the global AI map.
Super proud!
- Siddhartha
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Humantic AI is changing the rules of sales by shifting from me-first selling – (my quota, my products, my services) – to Buyer-First selling.
Amarpreet has been working on making software intelligent and humane for close to a decade. He knew sales had to evolve in a world where it has become increasingly easy to spam and no matter how many GenAI sales tools come into the picture, the truth will always remain PEOPLE BUY FROM PEOPLE and not from machines.
Read more about Humantic AI and what really made us join Amar's and Vishal's mission Here:
lnkd.in/g4hG7qsF
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Find us in Today’s Economic Times! We are featured among the top investors in Indian AI Startups in 2024 along with PeakXV & Accel India!
We have been investing in core AI startups since 2020. And we are proud to be part of 55 companies being built by the brightest Indian Founders ❤️
Just found out that we run a VC fund too? Head to www.neon.fund to know everything about Neon Fund :)
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So much to share and talk about our upcoming episode! We had an incredible time with Montek Sir at his residence that's filled with books, maps, papers, and photos that reflects his entire life he lived along with Isher Mam.
It almost felt like stepping back in time to witness the work done by the rockstar team that laid the foundation for the new India.
This episode is truly special for all of us at Neon packed with insights you won’t want to miss.
Subscribe to the channel so you get to listen to this great conversation dropping super soon 💚
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Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journey from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys.
Hence was born The Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes.
We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as better entrepreneurs and professionals after absorbing the learnings.