
Episode 16 / June 13, 2019
Kanwaljit Singh, Fireside Ventures
Kanwaljit Singh is the Managing Partner and Founder of Fireside Ventures. Fireside Ventures is early stage Venture Capital Fund investing only in Consumer Brands.
Kanwaljit Singh is also known as the gardener of new Consumer Brands in India. Before Fireside, he invested personally in Paperboat, IDFresh. Both of them showed interesting sparks of what was happening in the Indian consumer market.
He continued to personally invest in Epigamia, Licious, Yogabar, Vahdam Teas.
FireSide has invested in 18 companies in the last 2 years which include MamaEarth, boAT lifestyle, Bombay Shaving Company.
Kanwaljit Singh talks in the 100x Entrepreneur podcast about:
1. Why he started FireSide Ventures ?
2. How Indian consumer has changed in the last 5 years ?
3. What’s are two large factors coming together in India which will give rise to hundreds of new consumer brands ?
4. How new brands can be built in 5-7 years ?
5. The new channels of engagement and sales which have completely shifted how new age brands are built ?
6. Why disruption is must have thesis for the companies Fireside invests in ?
7. What Founder DNA he is looking to invest in ?
8. The evaluation process Fireside Ventures follows in investing ?
9. His advise for Founders to deliver excellence in their business ?
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