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May 10, 2021 at 5:44 am #56441
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That is the one word I would describe how Accio’s journey with 100X.VC has been to date. Straight away we started building a product which would let visually impaired individuals convert written text to braille. Immediately we took a leap of faith and started mobilising the team remotely to start building the robot. But what we did know was this if there was any team capable of pulling something like this off it was ours and if there was any right time to start working on a project like this it was then. Accio Robotics is a startup born in the pandemic with a product line-up best suited for a post-pandemic world.
How 100X.VC Happened Now that we’ve talked about how Accio began let’s get back to the MAGIC. Our pitch couldn’t have gone smoother the warmth that the 100X.VC team showed us was unparalleled. The fact that we were being mentored by Sanjay Mehta one of the most prominent names in the Indian investing circuit; Ninad Karpe a former head of a publicly-traded company and a huge name in the business circuit; Shashank Randev a prominent venture capitalist and someone who is extremely well connected in India’s VC circuit; Yagnesh Sanghrajka who is a finance genius and an industry veteran in the field; and Vatsal Kanakiya who was always just a call away and made everything from our pitches to our time at 100X.VC a smooth experience. Some other stand-out sessions were taken by Vishesh Rajaram who explained the ins and outs of creating a team and building it along with the company; Rajesh Mishra of Google gave a fantastic talk on product development with some interesting concepts such as “pretotyping”. This was followed by another brilliant talk from Uday Sodhi who was the head of SonyLiv. Sajith Pai gave excellent insights into how early-stage VCs like Blume invest in startups. I would also like to iterate the mentoring and the insights provided by Hershel Mehta and Brendan Rogers who spent adequate time understanding our pitch and helping us fine-tune. We have
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