“Can Indian tech companies scale?” While we could point to favourable macro indicators such as exceptional demographics and strong GDP / investment growth and make comparisons with similar trends in US and China, the answer we gave was a prediction […]
At the tail end of another trip to India, I am sitting at the Mumbai airport as I write this, trying to coalesce and summarize in my mind the learnings from various interactions over the past six days, across three […]
Years ago, my wife ran a couple of restaurants in the Bay Area. While the endeavors were intellectually stimulating and truly “character building”, they were financially suboptimal (to put it mildly). There were several lessons learned as we picked up […]
I recently spent an afternoon speaking with senior executives at Pearson, the leading education software company. The key topic of discussion was “education of the future, and future of education”. The conversation was part of a much broader exercise by […]
No one has ever said that being an entrepreneur was easy. What I love about entrepreneurs is that even when they know that the odds of success are stacked against them, they barrel ahead with their dreams. What I have […]
Last week, Iron Pillar announced its investment in a life sciences technology company called Vyome. At Iron Pillar, we are on a quest to find the best technology companies and entrepreneurs who possess a remarkable combination of vision, intellectual property […]
This week Iron Pillar proudly announced the final close of its maiden fund, Iron Pillar Fund I, with over $90M in commitments across its India (AIF) and Mauritius vehicles. It’s the culmination of a journey that began in early 2015. […]
Blockchain is such a vast topic and there is much written on it. So, in this article, I want to cut the jargon and keep it simple. The purpose of this article is to help the readers bust two myths: […]
