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Yash Jain
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Sparrow Capital • 1y

Hi everyone! I’m Yash, General Partner of Sparrow Capital, investing in Indian startups. Here to answer all your questions regarding startups, venture capital, funding, current market and anything else that you might have. Please put down your qu

Rajat Kumar

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Hi Yash, Venture Capital is dominated by people who come with Pedigree why is that and can someone without IIT and IIM tags get vc money how difficult it is for me to get vc money?

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Yash Jain
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Sparrow Capital • 1y

Thats not true. Sure its dominated but it does not mean that others dont get funding. Its capitalism, if most smart people go to these places its natural they will come out and start companies. In addition, that does not mean other schools dont have smart people

Yash Jain
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Sparrow Capital • 1y

Close to 50% founders in our portfolio and other places I have worked dont have such tags

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