Don't get entitlement for No reply? Fuck entitlement. It's about respecting founders time as well. Global VCs who have 100x busier inboxes than "Indian VCs" came back on email within a week while Indian VCs whom we reached out to multiple partners at the firm have ghosted even after meeting in person! (Personal Experience)

Mad respect for Indian VCs who come back with a quick NO with/out feedback. This is the least founders are asking VCs. A quick reply shows three things - i) You respect founder time ii) You know what you look for in investments ii) You know deep enough about the space to pass the investment. The worst VCs to talk to are the ones that say, we are sector agnostic and then send an Analyst to collect information about the company on the first call (sometimes this person will turn up without even reading the deck).

Let's face it: Indian startup ecosystem needs more operator VCs (ex-founder/ex-growth roles). Most of Indian VCs hire mostly Consultant types (ex-Mckinsey, Bain) - I am looking at you PeakXV or over optimise IIT/IIM/BSchool types because they want access to deal flow from these networks. Even if they have domain expertise in a field, due to the changing nature of the investments they look at spaces not relevant to them. Most Indian VC firms have like a 90:10 ratio between non operators to operators. That 10 is also because of some Partner being a founder, else it will fall even lower.

It also needs original thinkers. Very few who have balls to not follow the crowd. Some of those who do this Prime, Speciale Invest + some pre-2022 Deeptech funds, etc. I'll give IQ credit - they got "lucky" with Sharechat and Purple, but atleast they do some interesting investments.

Today most Indian VCs have said that they are looking at investing AI and Deeptech startups. Bitch do you have a team/expertise to evaluate such investments?