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Startup Fridays S5 Ep2: Vinod Shankar’s journey from software techie to lending books to deep tech investor

Startup Fridays S5 Ep2: Vinod Shankar’s journey from software techie to lending books to deep tech investor

Update: 2024-02-09
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In this episode, Vinod Shankar, founding managing partner at Java Capital in Bangalore, talks about his passion for backing deep tech entrepreneurs. Vinod started out as a software engineer but found himself repeatedly drawn to new experiences. His insatiable thirst for knowledge has taken him from a software startup to leading marketing for a library chain to angel investing to eventually working at a VC firm before starting one of his own. Vinod talks about why he wants to invest in deep tech, and how he identifies entrepreneurs worth backing.

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Startup Fridays S5 Ep2: Vinod Shankar’s journey from software techie to lending books to deep tech investor

Startup Fridays S5 Ep2: Vinod Shankar’s journey from software techie to lending books to deep tech investor

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