We’re excited to have Srikanth Iyer, co-founder & CEO of HomeLane, with our host Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, on Season 4 Episode 3 of That One Idea!

We’re excited to have Gautam Sinha and Divya Chethan, co-founders of CBREX, with our host Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, on Season 4 Episode 2 of That One Idea!

We’re excited to have D Venkatesh (DV), co-founder & CEO of Lentra, with our host Rahul Boggaram, Co-founder of Yellow Metal (a WaterBridge Ventures portfolio company), on Season 4 Episode 4 of That One Idea!

In this episode, Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBirdge Ventures, unravels the personal and professional journey of one of India's most insightful market minds.

In this episode of That One Idea, we have Saurabh Jain, co-founder of Stable Money, with our host Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures!

We’re excited to have Abhik Ghosh, Anushka Mahanti and Varun Deo, co-founders of Trampoline, with our host Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, to kickstart Season 4 of That One Idea! Trampoline is B2B cross-border home decor platform, delivering a full-stack experience across the value chain – from curation, design, sourcing, consolidation and quality control to logistics. Trampoline raised $5M in seed funding from us at WaterBridge Ventures and Z47 (fka Matrix Partners India) earlier this year, to disintermediate and streamline the procurement value chain for retailers in UK and Europe. Prior to starting up, Abhik spent 8+ years at Amazon and Wayfair, leading their UK & EU home decor business. Varun has 7+ years of experience across Wayfair, (Head of the UK Decor business), and Amazon, (launched Amazon’s speciality retail stores in the UK). Anushka has 8+ years of experience across Amazon UK, where she worked as the head of brand and marketing at Freevee, and Arla Foods (a $12B Danish FMCG major), where she headed product launches globally. Key Moments in the episode: (00:00): Welcoming Abhik, Anushka and Varun, co-founders of Trampoline to S04 E01 of That One Idea podcast (00:15): Anushka’s eclectic Parsi/Odiya upbringing across Bangladesh, Cambodia and India (06:00): 2X Bharat Vapsi Varun’s childhood centred around his love for Chemistry (09:02): Abhik’s childhood growing up in a Navy family (11:04): 2X founder Abhik’s experiences at GE, Philips, INSEAD, Amazon & Wayfair (14:01): Anushka's switch to Amazon's ad-supported streaming (15:57): Varun finally letting go of chemistry, for Amazon Luxembourg (19:00): Amazon - the common thread tying Abhik, Anushka and Varun (22:24): Learning to find customer love for Home & Decor at Wayfair (25:00): Trampoline - the name inspired by a cafe in London rehabilitating Syrian refugees (30:55): Anushka driving Trampoline's penchant and passion for design (33:55): Trampoline in a nutshell (39:00): Learnings from the first few months (41:46): Building up the team during the first 100 days post $5M seed funding (46:31): Audacious plans for 2025 Relevant Links: WaterBridge Ventures: https://www.waterbridge.vc/ Trampoline: https://trampolinestore.uk/ Linkedin Profiles: Abhik Ghosh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhik-ghosh-a722459/ Anushka Mahanti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anushka-mahanti-64669213/ Varun Deo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-deo-21a29317/ Anjali Sosale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkamma/ WaterBridge Ventures: www.linkedin.com/company/waterbridgeventures You can also listen to this podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MFFTmXKB8pk

In this episode, we have Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, chatting with Ayushi Gudwani, founder and CEO of FS Life. FS Life is a house of brands running three brands: FableStreet - a premium western-wear clothing brand for women, Pink Fort - a modern Indian wear brand re-imagining traditional clothing for women, and March - a sterling silver and semi-precious jewellery brand. Before founding FS Life, Ayushi spent 7 years at McKinsey where she consulted various organizations on strategy, growth and scale. Ayushi is an engineer from NSIT, Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, from where she graduated as a silver medalist.

In this episode, we have Abhinav Adlakha, part of the investment team at WaterBridge, chatting with Neeraj Menta, co-founder of SuperK. From a single store in Anantapur to now 130+ supermarket stores across Andhra Pradesh, SuperK’s journey has been nothing short of remarkable. Driven by its mission to bring modern retail experiences to Tier 3+ towns in India, SuperK empowers entrepreneurs to easily own and operate supermarkets using its data-driven, tech-enabled operating model. The co-founders of SuperK, Anil and Neeraj, began their adventure in college at BITS Pilani. After graduating, Neeraj was with Future Bazaar, Flipkart and Zeta, before he decided to start SuperK. Anil on the other hand was very bullish on franchising as a business. He tried to scale the multiple growing franchises such as FirstCry, McDonalds, ZoomCar and DriveEasy. Both Neeraj and Anil took inspiration from this concept and set their heart on solving for the modern and general trade industry.

In this episode, we have Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, chatting with Akash Gupta, co-founder & CEO of Zypp Electric.

In this episode, we have Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, chatting with Saurabh Pandey, founder & CEO of Eloelo.

In this episode, we have Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, chatting with Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, co-founder of Wakefit.

In this episode, we have Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, chatting with Rajiv Kumaar, CEO of Adster, and Ketan Chandak, CPO of Adster. Adster focuses on helping mobile app & web publishers monetize better through hyperscaling their revenue from Ads. With over 2 decades of experience in building Ad Tech platforms, the Adster founding team has a unique understanding of challenges faced by publishers. Rajiv has previously worked in product management roles across Vizury, Truecaller, DailyHunt, and Melorra, and had served as the product and tech head for ads at Truecaller. Ketan gained extensive experience across data engineering during his stint at Truecaller, in addition to software and ML experience at Twitter in the Search and Home Timeline engineering teams. We dive deep into their journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them to building Adster.

In this episode we have Anjali Sosale, Partner at WaterBridge chatting with Varun Sadana, co-founder of Supertails. Supertails.com’s full-stack platform offers pet supplies, online vet consultations, and online behavioural training. Varun, who is a pet parent himself, has always felt that the industry has not paid enough attention to the pet parenting journey and that there is a lack of an organised and easily accessible ecosystem for pet care needs. With Supertails.com, Varun is building a holistic pet care platform for India's growing pet care industry. We dive deep into Varun's journeys and the series of experiences and events that led to them to building Supertails.