Episode 6: Investing in consumer brands for Bharat! Ft. Arjun Vaidya, Co-Founder, V3 Ventures
Download MP3Today’s guest at the founder academy, is someone who has been a founder and investor.
As a founder, Arjun founded Dr. Vadiya’s. Scaled it to one of the fastest growing Ayurveda D2C brands in the country and sold it for 100 crores in 4 years.
As an investor, Arjun founded V3 ventures and raised over $100M to invest in some of India’s best consumer brands.
In this episode we discussed:
- Arjun's personal journey while growing up and what inspired him to entrepreneurship
- Building and scaling Dr. Vaidyda's
- Selling Dr. Vaidya's to RPSG group for INR 100 crores
- Journey as an angel investor and Arjun's top 3 investments featuring Lahori Jeera, P-TAL and Knya Med
- Starting V3 Ventures and raising a $100M fund to invest in consumer brands
- Advice to early stage founders on fund raising
- Top sectors and categories Arjun is excited by
- Top investments from the fund featuring - Kuku FM & Dil Foods
- Investing with Empathy and building a partnership with founders
- Importance of work life balance
- Rapid fire with Arjun featuring many things people don't know about him.
Catch the full episode and let us know what you think.
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Content Timelines:
- 00:00 - Pre-cap
- 01:30 - Intro
- 02:35 - Arjun's personal journey
- 04:02 - Building Dr. Vadiya's
- 08:20 - Figuring out your strengths and MOAT while building a D2C brand
- 10:45 - Challenges in raising money for Dr. Vaidya's
- 11:50 - Selling Dr. Vadiya's for INR 100 crores
- 16:50 - What inspired Arjun to start angel investing
- 18:50 - 3 of Arjun's top investments as an angel
- 23:45 - Starting V3 ventures and raising $100M for the first fund
- 30:00 - Importance of content creation for brands and founders
- 31:05 - 3 categories that V3 ventures is excited by
- 37:00 - Unique investments from V3
- 40:30 - Transition from founder to investor
- 43:00 - 3 questions that founders need to answer before starting a brand
- 44:00 - Rapid fire with Arjun
- 46:30 - Arjun's association with ACLR8
- 48:00 - Future of WA commerce in the country featuring Business on Bot
- 49:10 - Ending remarks
