Rahul Chandra is the co-founder and managing director of Helion Ventures. He has seventeen years' experience in venture capital investing and corporate development in technology products and services companies in India and the US. A graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (1993), he also has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
India's start-up revolution began in 1998, when the first venture capitalists (VCs) arrived from the US and backed early businesses in IT services for global corporations. The second wave came in 2006, when home-grown VCs raised large amounts of capital and funded products and services companies for Indian consumers.
This is a gripping, behind-the-scenes account of a VC's journey, right from the beginning of the second start-up revolution in India in 2006 until the end of the funding frenzy in 2016. A story about how global conditions, local consumers, founder ambition and good old greed shaped the start-up story in India.
Rahul Chandra tells us in this candid memoir about his journey building one of India's oldest venture capital firms. In a remarkably gripping manner, he recounts his adventures in India's hyper-funded start-up ecosystem.
The Moonshot Game gives readers an insight into the secret world of VCs, with unguarded stories involving large bets and big mistakes, and tales of how one juggles several investments at the same time.
Rahul shows why being a VC is a constant journey of ups and downs, why building value is a long-term business and why no amount of failure can be an excuse to lose optimism in the power of entrepreneurship.
