Recent Blogs

The Most Expensive Word in a Startup is “Yes”

By Vaniya Dangwal

The Old SaaS Metrics Are Lying to You About AI Companies

By Abhinav Mahipal

What Remains Durable?

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

When Billion-Dollar Funds Call Themselves “Early Stage,” Everyone Loses

By Abhinav Mahipal

The “SaaSPocalypse” Meets the Real World

By Abhinav Mahipal

Running Two Experiments with AI and Early‑Stage Capital

By Sandeep Chawda

What Really Changes When Founders Put AI at the Core of Their Company

By Madhukar Bhatia

The AI Storm Is Here. What Does It Really Change?

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

What Quick Heal Can Teach Today’s SaaS Founders About Building for Decades

By Sandeep Chawda

Open Source Is the New Freemium

By Abhinav Mahipal

13 Years of Learning That Led to SuperProcure

By Madhukar Bhatia

Selling to Large Enterprises: Insights from Four B2B Founders

By Sandeep Chawda

How Intellithink is reducing industrial downtime with AI

By Madhukar Bhatia

Navigating the AI Hype Curve

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

How India’s Complex Infrastructure Is Creating Better Security Tools

By Navjeet Kumar

The Market Reset in the Venture Landscape

By Abhinav Mahipal

Cybersecurity Is No Longer About Building Walls

By Sandeep Chawda

Bringing Bharat’s Banks Online with OneStack

By Madhukar Bhatia

AI – The Friend that B2B Start-ups Deeply Seek

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

The Pentathlon Approach to AI and GenAI

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

How B2B can democratise GenAI

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

GenAI Challenges for India

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

What AI / GenAI cannot do!

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

The democratisation of AI in B2B SaaS

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Navigating Through the Funding Winter: Challenges and Adaptations for Startups

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Rethinking ABM and Demand Gen in B2B SaaS: Insights from Siddhesh Rane of Sprinto

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Transforming B2B SaaS Marketing Through Content: Insights from Kavan Antani of IndieFolio

By Madhukar Bhatia

Mastering Global Expansion: A Case Study from OnlineSales.ai

By Abhinav Mahipal

Redefining Adaptive Learning: Pentathlon’s Bet on Cerebry

By Ashok Mayya

Indian SaaS and the Art of Going from Local to Global

By Hemant Joshi

Importance of Customer Success During Early Days of Building SaaS: Insights Shared by Nilesh Chhajed

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Rocketlane’s Path to Product Marketing Mastery

By Madhukar Bhatia

First close of Fund 2

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Pentathlon Ventures Launches Rs 450 Cr Fund II to Invest in 25 B2B SaaS Start-ups

By Ashok Mayya

June 2023 – Mumbai

By Abhinav Mahipal

May 2023 – Bengaluru

By Madhukar Bhatia

Supercharge Your SaaS: How Workflow Automation Fuels Scalability & Intelligence!

By Sandeep Chawda

The Not-So-Obvious B2B-SaaS Opportunities

By Hemant Joshi

Tripeur and Pentathlon: A partnership that weathered the storm

By Madhukar Bhatia

Taking the leap: Commoditising ad fraud tech for the benefit of all | Portfolio in Focus: The ClearTrust story

By Madhukar Bhatia

From Acquisition to Retention: Mastering the Art of Customer Loyalty

By Sandeep Chawda

Product-Led Recurring Services – Bringing Higher Valuations of SaaS to Non-SaaS Services

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

SLM – After the WHAT, Deep dive into the HOW

By Madhukar Bhatia

Creative Hiring Strategies for Startup Founder

By Abhinav Mahipal

The Power of Customer Retention and Upselling: Insights from Vipin Raghavan

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Building a Repeatable Sales Model

By Hemant Joshi

Navigating the VC-Founder dynamic

By Abhinav Mahipal

The VCs Dilemma: To advice, or not to advice

By Ashok Mayya

Conquering New Horizons: Flytbase’s Growth Hacks for Global Market Expansion

By Ashok Mayya

Forget TAM/SAM/SOM. ‘SLM’ is the path to global leadership for early stage start-ups!

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Arriving at a custom-fit marketing strategy for your niche B2B product | Portfolio in Focus: The Mogi story

By Madhukar Bhatia

SaaS Product Positioning: How to differentiate in a Competitive Market

By Abhinav Mahipal

Building a Successful Sales Engine with Shreyas Nair

By Ashok Mayya

Scaling Your Business Beyond Boundaries: Insights from a Global Perspective with Harishankar Kannan

By Hemant Joshi

‘Be the Buffalo charging at the storm’ Portfolio in Focus: The Tripeur story

By Sandeep Chawda

A (tried and tested) recipe for success in the SaaS world!

By Madhukar Bhatia

DNA of Scale # 6 | Achieving Success with SaaS Enterprise Sales in the United States for Make-in-India Companies

By Sandeep Chawda

The next SaaS Goldrush is here – and API’s are driving it!

By Madhukar Bhatia

Deciphering the ‘Series A’ Code: The Holy Grail For Early-Stage Companies

By Madhukar Bhatia

The Evolution of Indian E-Commerce

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

DNA of Scale # 5 | Corporate Collaborations: Scaling is a team sport

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Emerging SaaS opportunities in the E-commerce space

By Abhinav Mahipal

DNA of Scale # 4 | Startups need ESG

By Madhukar Bhatia

Bias To Action

By Hemant Joshi

Levelling Up with Gamification

By Madhukar Bhatia

Thinking Big and Scaling Growth: The Mindset Shift

By Abhinav Mahipal

How to build a self-driving Culture

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

DNA of Scale # 3 | AI in Clinical Decision Support: Part 2

By Abhinav Mahipal

Is Party round right for you?

By Madhukar Bhatia

DNA of Scale # 2 | AI in Clinical Decision Support: Part 1

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

The Rise of E-Commerce Enablers

By Abhinav Mahipal

Pricing Right

By Madhukar Bhatia

Growth vs Scale

By Hemant Joshi

How to build a start-up in an AI-first world

By Madhukar Bhatia

Stumbling Blocks to the 1st Million ARR

By Abhinav Mahipal

How to make the perfect SaaS investor pitch deck

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

DNA of Scale # 1 | AI in Recruiting

By Abhinav Mahipal

Decoding sales-led growth vs. product-led growth

By Madhukar Bhatia

The Most Expensive Word in a Startup is “Yes”

By Vaniya Dangwal

The Old SaaS Metrics Are Lying to You About AI Companies

By Abhinav Mahipal

What Remains Durable?

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

When Billion-Dollar Funds Call Themselves “Early Stage,” Everyone Loses

By Abhinav Mahipal

The “SaaSPocalypse” Meets the Real World

By Abhinav Mahipal

Running Two Experiments with AI and Early‑Stage Capital

By Sandeep Chawda

What Really Changes When Founders Put AI at the Core of Their Company

By Madhukar Bhatia

The AI Storm Is Here. What Does It Really Change?

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

What Quick Heal Can Teach Today’s SaaS Founders About Building for Decades

By Sandeep Chawda

Open Source Is the New Freemium

By Abhinav Mahipal

13 Years of Learning That Led to SuperProcure

By Madhukar Bhatia

Selling to Large Enterprises: Insights from Four B2B Founders

By Sandeep Chawda

How Intellithink is reducing industrial downtime with AI

By Madhukar Bhatia

Navigating the AI Hype Curve

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

How India’s Complex Infrastructure Is Creating Better Security Tools

By Navjeet Kumar

The Market Reset in the Venture Landscape

By Abhinav Mahipal

Cybersecurity Is No Longer About Building Walls

By Sandeep Chawda

Bringing Bharat’s Banks Online with OneStack

By Madhukar Bhatia

AI – The Friend that B2B Start-ups Deeply Seek

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

The Pentathlon Approach to AI and GenAI

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

How B2B can democratise GenAI

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

GenAI Challenges for India

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

What AI / GenAI cannot do!

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

The democratisation of AI in B2B SaaS

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Navigating Through the Funding Winter: Challenges and Adaptations for Startups

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Rethinking ABM and Demand Gen in B2B SaaS: Insights from Siddhesh Rane of Sprinto

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Transforming B2B SaaS Marketing Through Content: Insights from Kavan Antani of IndieFolio

By Madhukar Bhatia

Mastering Global Expansion: A Case Study from OnlineSales.ai

By Abhinav Mahipal

Redefining Adaptive Learning: Pentathlon’s Bet on Cerebry

By Ashok Mayya

Indian SaaS and the Art of Going from Local to Global

By Hemant Joshi

Importance of Customer Success During Early Days of Building SaaS: Insights Shared by Nilesh Chhajed

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Rocketlane’s Path to Product Marketing Mastery

By Madhukar Bhatia

First close of Fund 2

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Pentathlon Ventures Launches Rs 450 Cr Fund II to Invest in 25 B2B SaaS Start-ups

By Ashok Mayya

June 2023 – Mumbai

By Abhinav Mahipal

May 2023 – Bengaluru

By Madhukar Bhatia

Supercharge Your SaaS: How Workflow Automation Fuels Scalability & Intelligence!

By Sandeep Chawda

The Not-So-Obvious B2B-SaaS Opportunities

By Hemant Joshi

Tripeur and Pentathlon: A partnership that weathered the storm

By Madhukar Bhatia

Taking the leap: Commoditising ad fraud tech for the benefit of all | Portfolio in Focus: The ClearTrust story

By Madhukar Bhatia

From Acquisition to Retention: Mastering the Art of Customer Loyalty

By Sandeep Chawda

Product-Led Recurring Services – Bringing Higher Valuations of SaaS to Non-SaaS Services

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

SLM – After the WHAT, Deep dive into the HOW

By Madhukar Bhatia

Creative Hiring Strategies for Startup Founder

By Abhinav Mahipal

The Power of Customer Retention and Upselling: Insights from Vipin Raghavan

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Building a Repeatable Sales Model

By Hemant Joshi

Navigating the VC-Founder dynamic

By Abhinav Mahipal

The VCs Dilemma: To advice, or not to advice

By Ashok Mayya

Conquering New Horizons: Flytbase’s Growth Hacks for Global Market Expansion

By Ashok Mayya

Forget TAM/SAM/SOM. ‘SLM’ is the path to global leadership for early stage start-ups!

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Arriving at a custom-fit marketing strategy for your niche B2B product | Portfolio in Focus: The Mogi story

By Madhukar Bhatia

SaaS Product Positioning: How to differentiate in a Competitive Market

By Abhinav Mahipal

Building a Successful Sales Engine with Shreyas Nair

By Ashok Mayya

Scaling Your Business Beyond Boundaries: Insights from a Global Perspective with Harishankar Kannan

By Hemant Joshi

‘Be the Buffalo charging at the storm’ Portfolio in Focus: The Tripeur story

By Sandeep Chawda

A (tried and tested) recipe for success in the SaaS world!

By Madhukar Bhatia

DNA of Scale # 6 | Achieving Success with SaaS Enterprise Sales in the United States for Make-in-India Companies

By Sandeep Chawda

The next SaaS Goldrush is here – and API’s are driving it!

By Madhukar Bhatia

Deciphering the ‘Series A’ Code: The Holy Grail For Early-Stage Companies

By Madhukar Bhatia

The Evolution of Indian E-Commerce

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

DNA of Scale # 5 | Corporate Collaborations: Scaling is a team sport

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

Emerging SaaS opportunities in the E-commerce space

By Abhinav Mahipal

DNA of Scale # 4 | Startups need ESG

By Madhukar Bhatia

Bias To Action

By Hemant Joshi

Levelling Up with Gamification

By Madhukar Bhatia

Thinking Big and Scaling Growth: The Mindset Shift

By Abhinav Mahipal

How to build a self-driving Culture

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

DNA of Scale # 3 | AI in Clinical Decision Support: Part 2

By Abhinav Mahipal

Is Party round right for you?

By Madhukar Bhatia

DNA of Scale # 2 | AI in Clinical Decision Support: Part 1

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

The Rise of E-Commerce Enablers

By Abhinav Mahipal

Pricing Right

By Madhukar Bhatia

Growth vs Scale

By Hemant Joshi

How to build a start-up in an AI-first world

By Madhukar Bhatia

Stumbling Blocks to the 1st Million ARR

By Abhinav Mahipal

How to make the perfect SaaS investor pitch deck

By Gireendra Kasmalkar

DNA of Scale # 1 | AI in Recruiting

By Abhinav Mahipal

Decoding sales-led growth vs. product-led growth

By Madhukar Bhatia