EP 117 : Powering Venture Capital through Data & Tech - Abhishek Goyal (Co-founder, Tracxn) | Fundraising | Founders | Scaling

Abhishek Goyal is the co-founder of Tracxn, a startup enabling faster and easier deployment of Venture Capital to startups through their platform. He has also been an investor in several startups like flipkart, delhivery and the like. In this episode he spoke about going  from Idea to product to company, the nuaces of building a data and research platform, balancing human intervention and tech innovation and more with Roshan Cariappa. Key Highlight: (00:00) Introduction (01:25) What is driving the current fundraising frenzy (05:55) Are we at peak FOMO? (09:22) Abhishek's investment thesis (12:56) Difficult problems that startups CAN solve (14:08) Founders of 2008 vs Founders of 2021 (15:57) Abhishek's thoughts on SaaS (17:55) Abhishek's thoughts on Fintech (19:58) Abhishek's thoughts on Edtech  (22:26) Building Tracxn - going from Idea to product to company (24:45) Nuances of building a data & research platform (26:57) Balancing Human Intervention & Tech Innovation (28:39) How are teams structured at Tracxn (32:48) SaaS pricing Strategies (35:08) Nuances of Selling to VCs (37:07) The skill of Sourcing and Organizing proprietary data (38:33) High level challenges Abhishek is solving at Tracxn (39:39) Why should startups partner with tracxn? (41:17) What's coming up next at Tracxn (42:16) Books and Podcasts Abhishek recommends ------------------------------------- Connect with Abhishek: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishekgoyal/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhishekTracxn ------------------------------------- Connect with Us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​​ ------------------------------------- If you liked this episode, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message