Blume Ventures

“An IPO is never an exit for the founders, It’s a trust vote from the public” - Srishti Baweja, co-founder of E2E Cloud (Fund I vintage). We bring you a snippet from E2E co-founders Tarun Dua and Srishti's conversation with Karthik B. Reddy on the 4th season of the Blume Podcast, where they share the behind-the-scenes story and learnings from their remarkable IPO journey. Here’s a teaser. After failing to raise a Series A despite doubling revenue year-on-year, they took an unconventional path in 2018 - an SME IPO that was oversubscribed 70x. The ₹57 stock hit ₹85 on day one. But here's the twist: For five years, the stock barely moved. Then came the explosion - from ₹22 Cr market cap at listing to over ₹9,000 Cr at its peak. What changed? A contrarian bet made in 2018-19 that nobody understood at the time. Multiple employees became crorepatis. And even we - the only institutional investor until the IPO - have a confession to make about missed opportunities. Watch the full video to discover: - Why Tarun almost gave up on going public - The strategic decision that positioned E2E as "India's power grid for AI" - How they stayed frugal even with money in the bank - The inside story of India's most dramatic SME-to-mainboard journey https://lnkd.in/d3tBByrr Ashish Fafadia, Sanjay Nath, Arpit Agarwal, Sajith Pai, Rohit Kaul, Ria Shroff Desai, Mitul Mehta, Alok Mehta, Deepika Jain, Sarita Raichura, Gautham Sivaramakrishnan, Vikram Gawande, Elton C.

At LightFury Games, we believe growth begins where comfort ends. Every breakthrough, every innovation, every line of code we write comes from pushing boundaries - not staying within them. We are building something incredible, one brick at a time. 😎 #Ecricket #Lightfurygames #Games #Gaming #Ecricket #Esports #GamingIndustry #GameDevelopment #CricketGaming #CricketGames #CompanyCulture #Innovation #GrowthMindset #Teamwork #BuildingGreatness #Startup

PicSee (Fund IV) is transforming how we reclaim and share photos. Built on a unique 'give to get' philosophy, it helps users automatically discover and exchange photos with friends - no manual sharing required. With end-to-end encryption and privacy-first design, users maintain complete control over their sharing preferences. As Marmik Mankodi from the Blume investment team shares "I discovered ~1400 new photos of myself with the help of PicSee; I'd post a screenshot but the app does not let me take one! (its very privacy first)" The numbers speak for themselves: 7500% growth purely through user invites, presence in 27 countries, and over 150,000 photos exchanged. Notably, 30% of users have discovered more photos of themselves on PicSee than in their own galleries. In a world with 15 trillion photos and 2 trillion new ones annually, PicSee is addressing a massive opportunity by making photo sharing effortless and secure. Try it at https://www.picsee.com/

Blume's Latest Exits: Rs 175 Cr Managed Secondary and additional $4.5M Spinny (Fund II) Stake Sale In this month's edition of "Decoding Exits", Karthik B. Reddy highlights some exciting developments in the Blume Portfolio's secondary market activities. We have orchestrated a managed secondary deal involving three portfolio companies: Servify (Fund II), Purplle.com (Fund I vintage), and IDfy (Fund I vintage). A single Indian investor has acquired these pooled assets, valued at ₹175 Crore, with Blume continuing to manage the secondary. Additionally, building on our recent announcement of our largest exit to date, we're excited to share another milestone: a $4.5M secondary sale of our stake in Spinny. This transaction brings our total realised value from Spinny to $22M, and we maintain approximately half of our original stake in the company. Watch the full analysis to understand what these movements signal for founders and investors: https://lnkd.in/dMs_8wy2 Ashish Fafadia, Sanjay Nath, Arpit Agarwal, Sajith Pai, Rohit Kaul, Ria Shroff Desai, Mitul Mehta, Alok Mehta, Deepika Jain, Sarita Raichura, Gautham Sivaramakrishnan, Vikram Gawande, Elton C.

I discovered ~1400 new photos of myself with the help of PicSee; I'd post a screenshot but the app does not let me take one! (its very privacy first) Share & get your photos: join.picsee.com

#ProductLaunch 🚀 Want 1000s of your unseen pics from your friends? You need PicSee 👉 https://join.picsee.com Your friends’ phones are treasure chests — full of photos of you that you’ve never received. PicSee gets them all back for you — magically. - No follow-ups. - No awkward “send me my pics.” - No more manual effort. - Just memories — finally home. PicSee website 👉 https://www.picsee.com ----------------------------- 💥 PicSee is different: - Works on the ‘give to get’ philosophy - Unlike all the one-way sharing apps - The only mutual photo sharing app - Zero manual effort - Get high resolution pics We find your friends from your gallery, help you invite and approve them. After a one-time approval, you can exchange pics with them forever. You get 24 hours to review outgoing photos. ----------------------------- 🔐 Built with Privacy at the Core: - Photos stay on your phone (we can’t see or store them) - End-to-end encryption - No screenshots - Sensitive photos auto-filtered - You choose what and with whom you share Probably one of the safest photo apps ever built. You can read about our security here: https://lnkd.in/gq-nNrMW ----------------------------- 🌍 Our Soft Launch Numbers: - 7500% growth purely through user invites - Users in 27 countries & 160 cities - 1,50,000+ photos exchanged - 30% of users have more photos of themselves on PicSee than in their gallery! Once you use PicSee with your friends, you'll realize why early users are loving it. ----------------------------- 🌍 Market size: - 15 trillion photos in the world - 2 trillion new photos every year - 4.8 bn smart phone users Everyone is a photographer but very few share. PicSee is here to change that, and photo sharing forever. ----------------------------- To everyone who believed, tested, waited, and cheered us on — thank you 🙏🏼 We’re starting small — so please bear with us if there are hiccups as we scale. This one’s been built with all our heart and built to win a billion more. We're building this in the open and you'll get nothing but full transparency from us. Because you deserve it. Here’s to bringing your memories home ❤️ The team that created PicSee: Gurteshwar Singh Muthu kumaran Madhubalan Appachi Ankit S. Nagendra Rao Vipul Kumar Sai Raghu Varma Kallepalli Bharani Dharan Nand Kishore Verma Yogesh Joshi Download 👉 join.picsee.com Website 👉 https://www.picsee.com Vision 👉https://lnkd.in/gGb9SVDp