Excited to share the results of our month long exploration of India and the startup ecosystem 🎉
You can read the complete Indus Valley Report here:
It has been a pleasure working with (the man himself)
@sajithpai
and
@anurag_pagaria
on this report!
The Indus Valley Report 2024 - 3rd edition is here!! 🎉
This report is our take on India and the Indian startup ecosystem, through different lenses to sensemake what we call as “Indus Valley” - a catch-all moniker for the Indian startup ecosystem
Here are 15 lenses or frames…
🎮India has a 500M large gaming population, and accounts for 15% of mobile game downloads across the globe.
At Blume, we are are building a thesis on How India Games, and if you are a gamer, we would love for you to participate in our survey, linked here:
If you are still making your way through the 132 power-packed slides of the Indus Valley Report, worry not - we now have a video companion guide to assist you on your journey!
Here is Indus Valley Annual Report 2024 deconstructed!
@sajithpai
@anurag_pagaria
@BlumeVentures
After much ado,
@radhika_agar
and I have put together and launched our HRTech thesis which is an amalgamation of several conversations, deep research, and a strong conviction in the space.
We’re excited for you to read it, and look forward to your thoughts 😁
As we draw the curtains on Blume Day 2024, the theme for the year lingers on, and leaves a lasting impression - "Winning Beyond Boundaries" and this theme resonates in several key parts of the Indus Valley Report 2024.
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@sajithpai
@anurag_pagaria
(1/6)
While the uber-popular Indus Valley Report
@BlumeVentures
comes out later this weekend, here’s a sneak preview ~ a slide that talks about our “embedded finance” play built over the last two years > international remittance, education loans & immigrant banking
@flydotfinance
…
The Rule of 30 and why we at Blume believe the outer limit of the Indian consuming class is ~30m households!
The Indus Valley Report 2024 edition releases this fri! Now, one of the charts we have as a fixture is our split of the India Consumer Market into India1, 2 and 3.…
Do you ever have a song come on, & you're listening to it at normal volume, & you recognise that the song is going to hit peak in 3 seconds, so you increase the volume, & the volume rises with the progression of the song, meets the peak, and then you become the song itself?
Everytime I tell people I broke my arm trying to get off a ledge, they immediately assume I was trying to kill myself. Like nah b! Surely I'd be more successful than just a broken arm if I was trying to kill myself?!?!?!?!?!!!
Twitter's suddenly behaving like those people on youtube who comment under random videos "Hey if you're reading this I just want you to know that you're beautiful and special and the best thing to happen to the world", like I just want to watch this dumb vine compilation?!?!?!?!
My dad just called me into the room, pointed to the tv, and went "what is this? what is she doing?" It was Billie Eilish's all the good girls go to hell
4) Fintechs while building in an incumbent-heavy market have targetted underserved consumer segments like new-to-credit and young users, and underserved categories like wealth, personal loans (5/6)
@SarveshCK
We were supposed to do a long distance thing at one point so he created an email address and sent emails to it with pictures of doggo, pictures of galaxies, an email about why he loves me, and some erotica he wrote for when it gets lonely 😔 lost the account after we broke up
Artist, teacher, doctor, firefighter, or a startup founder?
Chhutki, a young girl from a small village in India, is confused about what she should aspire to become when she grows up.
Embark on a journey with Chhutki through a day filled with curiosity and discoveries, where she…
1) While unicorn minting has slowed down, Indus Valley's founders have gone the route of main board and SME board IPOs to scale their ventures with the support of public markets and retail investors (2/6)
@ideaforge_tech
@mamaearthindia
@infollion
@e2enetworks
I wildcarded in the last 30 minutes before deadline, and brought in Leicester assets. Not gonna lie, that definitely heightened the game-watching experience 🙏🏼
Been counting down the days, hours, seconds to the game. Subscribed to hotstar so I could watch it irrespective of where I was, only to have
@HotstarVIP
let me down. And now I'm not watching the game. I'm whining on the internet, and trynna find alt links. RIP
3) Despite constrained budgets, India's space sector has dared to dream! This ethos is well ingrained and true of the many Spacetech startups in the country.
@PixxelSpace
launched their first hyperspectral imaging satellite Shakuntala to space with ~$35m in total funding (4/6)
A brilliant dissection of the Indus Valley Annual Report 2024 by
@waitin4agi_
Thoroughly enjoyed this and all the additional insights the video furnishes!
2) In a highly competitive wearables market, India's consumer electronic insurgents are leading the charge.
@RockWithboAt
is now the second largest global wearables brand (3/6)
I just want to say, Jonathan Van Ness is now a large part of my invigorated spirit for change, curiosity, and always staying informed.
@jvn
the whole crew loves you, thank you for the hope, and high spirits, in these troubling times.