From Food-tech Nonprofit to Zomato Acquisition with Srishti Kawatra

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week on The Exit: Srishti Kawatra describes her journey from founding her food distribution nonprofit while working at her corporate job in India, to being acquired by one of India’s largest food-tech companies, Zomato. She discusses how what started as a partnership inquiry turned into the offer, and what specifically made Zomato so interested in acquiring her business. She wasn’t planning to exit, but she shares how she ultimately concluded that moving forward with the sale was the right choice for business. Since then, the brand has grown by 1000x, and Srishti is now a Stanford MBA graduate and general partner at the 24 Fund, a Silicon-Valley-based seed fund. For more details and insights from her entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit. Srishti Kawatra is an entrepreneur who is passionate about supporting women entrepreneurs and women-oriented solutions in HealthTech, FinTech and more. She founded a food-tech company in India that was later acquired by Zomato, and is currently a General Partner at The 24 Fund. Where they are focusing on early-stage investing in founders/startups coming out of Stanford MBA Class of 2024. Srishti is also currently an investor with The MBA Fund. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishtijainkawatra/ For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by Flip Up the number one platform to buy and sell online businesses
0:05.9	Flipa manages over a billion in deal value annually and combines expert buy and sell side advisory with its market
0:13.0	leading valuation tool, deal room, off market offering,
0:16.3	market insights, an AI-based deal by deal matching engine.
0:20.7	Now for the exit.
0:22.0	The exit is a 30 minute podcast featuring awesome
0:24.4	entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to
0:27.6	operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes. You learn
0:31.5	how they did it, why they did it and get
0:33.8	exposure to the world of exits it's a world occupied by a small few but
0:38.2	accessible to many on this episode the exit I sit down with thristy
0:42.4	Kowatra She's a fantastic
0:45.1	entrepreneur and investor now and we walk through her whole journey from
0:50.6	starting a food tech company to getting acquired by a very large
0:56.0	successful company in India and now she's at Stanford really digging in and
1:02.4	learning about investing and
1:04.3	entrepreneurship. So really cool story of how this works out and one of my
1:09.6	favorite parts of this interview you're definitely going to want to listen through to the end but in the middle we talk about the timing and how to be prepared for these these types of transactions to take place and we talked about basically being a zero to one founder
1:25.8	and what that means and going from, you know,
1:29.4	starting from scratch to scaling it up to an exit is just such a difficult thing to do and having a
1:37.8	potential acquirer that you reach out to that as a partner eventually you realize like oh wow this company can actually
1:46.0	acquire us and they're the ones that suggest in M&A there's like this light bulb
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