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4 Stellar VC Pods

Stellaris Venture Partners $300 million Fund III   has attracted significant attention in the ecosystem - including for its size and the speed with which it was raised. The three original partners of Stellaris - Ritesh Banglani, Alok Goyal and Rahul Chowdhri - have recently shared details of the fund raise, via two different podcasts. While Ritesh and Alok spoke on the Neon Show , while Rahul appeared on Prime Venture Partners' podcast  (along with Gautam Mago of A91 Partners). The newest partner at Stellaris, Naman Lahoty, had also joined Stellaris' founders in an Yourstory Podcast  where they covered broader startup ecosystem related topics (than just the fund raise).  Stellaris has meanwhile launched its own podcast (but naturally?) - where, as part of the first episode , Rahul Chowdhri, has interviewed Kirti Varun Avasarala (a senior product executive at Meesho  and Flipkart, who has since moved to Uber). All well worth a watch / listen - especially fo...
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