April | 2018
Last week, I had the honor of speaking on the panel at ACG Silicon Valley’s C-Circle event Venture Capital: What to Expect in 2018 in Palo Alto, California. The event focused on a range of topics including funding trends, corporate venture activity and emerging technologies from Blockchain to Conversational Interfaces.
Emerging technologies are rapidly transforming industries around the globe and in turn driving a massive shift in technology consumption patterns for corporations. For startups in the Enterprise Software space, it is imperative that they choose investors who can help them navigate the same as part of their growth journey.
An entrepreneur should keep the following points in mind when evaluating corporate/strategic investors for an upcoming round:
The most important step towards picking a suitable investor is identifying your own needs, goals and objectives, both now and in the future. Once you have clearly thought through your goals and needs, you can begin to identify which investors are best suited to help.
At Wipro Ventures, we seek to help our portfolio companies in the following manner:
Biplab is a Managing Partner at Wipro Ventures and serves as a board observer for Altizon Systems, Demisto, IntSights and Tricentis.
Prior to this position, Biplab held several operating roles, primarily in the enterprise applications services domain at Wipro, Genpact, and PwC. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and an MBA with concentration in finance and systems from IIM Bangalore, India. He is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt and a Kauffman Fellow.
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