Aviral Bhatnagar

ajvc

Investing in Indian pre-seed startups - if you're building a startup please apply at ajuniorvc.com

Founder and Managing Partner

Built a platform for deeply researched opinions & enabling entrepreneurs that evolved into AJVC - the Fund

Founder

Venture Highway LLP

Led investments in SaaS, consumer and AI. Managed and built the student venture program.

Investor

Guild Capital

Set up the India investing practice and focused on early-stage/venture investments

Morgan Stanley

Private equity summer internship with large infra-asset focus

Stealth Startup

Built two startups while in college at IITB. Award-winning startups focused on opening career options for Tier 2 city students and science learning

Co-Founder

I am the Founder and Managing Partner of ajvc, a pre-seed fund investing in Indian startups

If you want to connect with the fund for a company you've started, please apply at ajuniorvc.com. If you would like to speak with me, reach out at aviral@ajuniorvc.com

I graduated top of class from IIM Ahmedabad and built my first few startups at IIT Bombay

Making startup conversations more accessible - find out more at ajuniorvc.com

My personal principles:

1. Health > Family > Career
2. Optimists make money, pessimists sound smart
3. Work as long as I can, never retire
4. Purpose over money
5. Courage is rare, show it
6. Empathy is rarer, feel it
7. Take risks, life is short
8. Be thoughtful, life is long
9. Attitude > Aptitude
10. Share as much as you can
11. Write for yourself, before others
12. Respond to all thoughtful people
13. Live below your means, learn above your means
14. Money is a scoreboard, not a goal
15. Good things take time
16. Don’t stop, keep going
17. Support people who want to make a difference
18. Things come down as fast as they go up
19. Choose slowly, commit wholly, execute rapidly 
20. Give back as you’re privileged
21. If you try to make everyone happy, you never will be

Startups are increasingly using Zoho over Google for a lot of products

Not just GMail, but also Drive, Looker and Forms are being replaced

Founders find Zoho products much easier to use an economical, something that wasn't true before

Zoho is transforming into a heavy hitter

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