Vinayak Kamath, Co-Founder and Mg Partner, Hearth Ventures
- Vinayak is the co-founder and partner of Hearth Ventures, India’s first Mentor Fund for Craft and Circular Economy Enterprises.
- Vinayak is also an alumnus of the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.
Podcast
Overview
India’s rich cultural diversity and heritage provide a unique and huge resource for developing craft products. The handicraft industry is one of the important segments of the decentralized sector in India. Today we have Vinayak Kamath with us to discuss the topic in depth.
00:35- About Vinayak Kamath
- Vinayak is the co-founder and partner of Hearth Ventures, India’s first Mentor Fund for Craft and Circular Economy Enterprises.
- Vinayak is also an alumnus of the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.
01:04- About his journey
- I started off with two degrees an engineering degree from BITS Pilani and then a management degree from Jamnalal Bajaj.
- My professional journey is in four parts. First was as a corporate executive. Another part was as an entrepreneur. The third is an investor. Now you could say I’m in the fourth leg which is investing with purpose.
02:20- About Hearth Ventures
- Hearth Ventures is India’s first Mentor Fund for Craft and Circular economy Enterprises.
- Our vision is to ignite a vibrant ecosystem of growth capital for handmade crafts enterprises and circular economy ventures.
- With our capital and mentoring, we expect to create role models of successful businesses which leads to more innovation in this sector.
08:27- How do you define the word “Mentor Fund”?
- There is native entrepreneurial ability but there are no examples of scale in the sector.
- All of us who have founded this venture has run large global-level businesses.
- We’ve also been investors, and mentors to startups.
11:09- What do you look for before making an investment?
- We look at the quality of the entrepreneur. are they really purposeful, and impactful?
- One or two native skills in addition to this purpose.
- You overlay that with they would have done something substantial in an earlier avatar.
22:53- Three lessons
- Find a purpose and latch on to it.
- There is no limit to what you can achieve if you don’t mind who takes the credit.
- Life is not a zero-sum game.
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- Vinayak is the co-founder and partner of Hearth Ventures, India’s first Mentor Fund for Craft and Circular Economy Enterprises.
- Vinayak is also an alumnus of the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Sciences.
