Aakash Kumar is a Managing Director at Z47 & DeVC. Aakash likes to partner with founders in that early stage to enable them to generate maximum momentum.

In the past, as an active angel investor, he has enabled 100+ founders to start and build compelling businesses.

In this episode, we talk about -

- Aakash's operator experience at companies like Housing(dot)com & Hotstar

- The investment thesis at Z47

- Why did they rebrand from Matrix Partners to Z47?

- The thinking behind investing in companies like Ola Electric, Razorpay, OfBusiness in the early stages?

- The massive India opportunity

- Common mistakes founders make in the early stages of the business

& lots more

Links:

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