In part two of a candid conversation, Vani Kola, founder and managing director, Kalaari Capital, talks about why there are raging governance lapses across startups and what's the endgame as she decodes the relationship between founders and investors as they navigate pitfalls in the journey of value creation
The relationship between founders and investors can be complex. “We are in this interesting emotional equation where founders hope and expect that when the chips fall, investors will step up for them. Of course, they step up if they have the confidence that the setback can be overcome, and value creation has a reasonably high probability in their interest. They can’t put money knowingly to lose it. It’s a very simple fact, but in the emotions, it gets lost,” says Vani Kola, one the leading pioneers of venture capital (VC) investing in India, in an exclusive and wide-ranging conversation on Forbes India Pathbreakers.