Delhi-based mostly Divyaanshu Makkar experienced only just one objective even though enrolling in the Btech system at IIT Delhi: to consider the maximum spending job when he acquired out of higher education and take care of dollars-related woes.

He finished up joining the EY-Parthenon team, a Mumbai-dependent management consulting firm right after graduation. 

Decades later on, he embarked on the route to entrepreneurship with his first undertaking in the edtech house, Join2 Instruct in London, and then again with SaaS startup Sourcewiz in 2021.  

In the most recent episode of the 100X Entrepreneur Podcast, Divyaanshu demonstrates on his journey: from staying an entrepreneur to starting to be a VC and then returning to entrepreneurship, his learnings and networks from his VC interval, and additional.

Entrepreneurial journey

Divyaanshu has been a founder formerly then grew to become a VC with EY- Parthenon team to see how VCs see founders differently, how VCs examine and so forth.,

“Very appealing few of yrs there. Normal operate, system, consulting, private equity owing diligence, but it gave me the publicity that I truly essential. I was capable to help you save adequate cash to choose a possibility and start my 1st organization. I ran Hook up2Train for about two yrs,” Divyaanshu recalls.

With Join2Instruct, he was setting up software program options for bigger instruction. Divyaanshu ran that for about two and a fifty percent a long time after which he could not scale the business enterprise as anticipated due to several components.

“My co-founder and I experienced extremely distinctive ambitions. She arrived from a relatives enterprise track record and would have been content with a rewarding, modest-scale, recurring small business. But at 24, my ambitions had been really, really unique, particularly coming from IIT, and viewing what was going on all-around me in the planet of technology and how rapidly businesses were being scaling,” he recalls.

This, alongside with COVID, modified his designs, delaying his MBA at the University of California, Berkeley, by a year. A VC agency then seemed like a fantastic solution and

he shortly dropped out of school to be part of the VC organization Bessemer Undertaking Associates. Here, he targeted on edtech and shopper tech for India/SEA and business/SMB SaaS becoming designed from India/SEA for the environment.

“I joined the agency to build a founder community of my…