An Exclusive Interview with Mr. Tushar Kansal

Tell us something about yourself. I am Tushar Kansal – Founder/ CEO of Kansaltancy Ventures (https://www.Kansaltancy.com ) – an accomplished professional, a “Thought Leader/ Influencer”. Over the years, I have supported Companies & Investors in diverse sectors (90+ Recommendations on LinkedIn). I help by means of Venture Capital, SME/ Mainboard IPO. Debt, Consulting, Virtual CFO & Strategic Services, leveraging 450+ Investor/ Lender connects. The range of deals is USD 1-50 million. I contribute to a portfolio of 360+ Startups in 60+ countries with Loyal VC, the INSEAD-led Canadian VC Fund, as their Venture Advisor. An avid reader and a Hindi singer, I am a Speaker at Ivy League Institutions/ Corporates. My expert opinion is often sought by leading Channels/ Publications like CNN-News18, VCTV (Venture Capital Tv), Business World & TechThirsty. More than 500 talks of his including TedX are in the public domain – Check Google/ YouTube Links: https://linktr.ee/tusharkansal https://www.Kansaltancy.com https://www.TusharKansal.com https://www.IndusChurning.com https://www.youtube.com/c/TusharKansal What key challenges did you face in the initial stages of building Kansaltancy Ventures, and how did you overcome them? The initial stages of building Kansaltancy Ventures in 2016 presented several key challenges. At that time, the concept of Startups was relatively new in India, supported primarily by the Startup India Initiative launched by our PM Shri Narendra Modi. This initiative had only 416 registered Startups, and terms like ‘Investment’ and ‘Venture Capital’ were not widely understood. The knowledge gap in the market posed a significant challenge as very few people were familiar with Investment processes and how Venture Capital worked. How do you balance maintaining a hands-on role in Startup advisory while also growing Kansaltancy Ventures as a business? We realized early that Startups struggle quite a lot and they basically require three things: one is a Network. Network from which they can get Investment and network from which they can get business, so we provide that. Secondly, they need Capital, so we provide Venture Capital, Angel funding and we do SME IPO also and they require Debt also like Loans so we do Debt for them also. The third thing they require is Management know-how, so we know the best practices globally which Startups follow and the Startup founders follow so we handhold these Startups bases that best practices and international know-how. And while growing Kansaltancy Ventures as a business, we charge on the basis of the work we do like the Business plan, Pitch deck, Teaser, Financial Model and Valuation. All the documentation we create is up to the Investor standards and secondly, we charge basis the funding which we get for the Founders and anybody who wants to talk to us can do it by the Topmate account which has charges which they need to pay while taking Advisory. And we take Equity also as a part of our Advisory but that is only in very very selected companies. Our founder Tushar Kansal is an independent director on the board of big companies like GP Eco solutions which has done SME IPO so he advises the Board of reputed companies. Could you discuss a pivot or shift that a Startup made during your engagement that led to a successful outcome and what factors drove that decision? Well there are many examples – you know in Covid, almost 70% Startups were about to shut down and they had to make a shift so many of them actually pivoted – many of them whatever business they were doing, started selling health products like disinfectants and gloves and started trading these products and most of them jumped onto the internet to offer contactless service and started planning towards that. So, pivots are very common in Startups but you know at the end of the day you have to focus on one or two products or services for which you find the secret sauce ie your secret formula of success. I will give you some examples of pivots and shifts here: Read More: https://enterprisereview.com/an-exclusive-interview-with-mr-tushar-kansal/ Source: https://enterprisereview.com/ #TusharKansal #KansaltancyVentures #GlobalMediaOrganization #Globalbusinesmagazine #BusinessEMagazine #BusinessMagazineGlobal #TopBusinessMagazine