Will invest in India's metaverse, crypto startups: Antler's Rajiv Srivatsa

The real foundational businesses still take 10 years to build. You can't fast forward it beyond a point, says VC fund's India head

Global early-stage venture capital (VC) fund Antler plans to invest more than $100 million across Indian technology startups in the next three years. It has already made over a dozen bets in India after its launch in the country earlier this year. Antler India partner Rajiv Srivatsa, who was a co-founder of online furniture startup Urban Ladder, talks about the fund’s investment thesis in India, the branding game of VCs and the vagaries of a booming market in an interview with Aditi Verma and Deepsekhar Choudhury. Edited excerpts:

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