Siliconindia Magazine

Banking On Startup Success: Ishpreet Singh Gandhi, Founder And Managing Partner, Stride Ventures

While it is still early days for the Indian startup ecosystem, it is a great time to be an entrepreneur in Asia's third-biggest economy. For every aspiring entrepreneur toiling incessantly as nights blur into days, there is present a Venture Capital institution, an incubator or an angel invest or ready to foster their fledgling innovation. However, no economic success story can ever be complete without the fundamental role of banking institutions. In this era of unicorns and soonicorns, it is easy to lose sight of startup failures. Reasons for these failures may be aplenty, but not knowing how to navigate through financial challenges is a recurring one. Owing to the idiosyncratic and continuously-changing nature of startups, banks can play varying roles at different stages of a...