Janus Venture Journal
Perspectives on capital markets, deep tech, and the craft of building enduring ventures. Written by practitioners, for founders.
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India's innovation ecosystem sits atop a vast, largely untapped reservoir of government grants, sovereign funds, and strategic debt instruments. The founders who learn to navigate this landscape retain control — and build faster.
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How splitting a round into milestone-linked tranches can reduce dilution, extend runway, and align incentives across the cap table.
India's PLI and CHIPS-equivalent programs remain dramatically underutilised by early-stage founders. A practical guide to navigating the application landscape.
A family office partner reads 300 decks a year. Here is what earns a second look — and what gets a deck closed in three slides.
The difference between a family office and a VC isn't just check size. It's time horizon, governance expectations, and what they want from founders post-close.
DCF doesn't work. Comparable multiples barely work. Here are the frameworks sophisticated investors actually use when pricing early-stage hardware and IP.
Two identical businesses with different narratives will raise at materially different valuations. The craft of translating technical complexity into institutional prose is a skill — and it's learnable.
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