This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Ash Arora, the youngest Companion at LocalGlobe — the #1 early-stage VC fund in EMEA and a backer of legendary firms like Clever, Canva, Twitter, Robinhood, and extra.
Ash shares her journey from a refugee colony in Delhi to main investments in frontier tech throughout London and past. We dive into her time at Polygon Ventures (the place she managed a $100 million fund with LPs like Sequoia, Lightspeed, and SoftBank), her expertise advising the Indian Prime Minister’s Workplace on rising tech startup investments and strategic coverage impacting 1.5 billion individuals, and the teachings she’s discovered about energy, adversity, and rather more!
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Key takeaways:
- Why adversity builds higher founders
- How intestine intuition is sample recognition
- What VCs typically get fallacious about {hardware} and deep tech
- Why most startups don’t really need enterprise capital
- Tips on how to learn individuals like one of the best traders do
- The worst (and greatest) recommendation she’s ever obtained
