The Entrepreneur Podcast · Eric Janssen and Eric Morse

67. Launching start-ups with Navin Kaminoulu and Scott Kaplanis

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Scott Kaplanis explains that investors prioritize dream and credibility when evaluating startups.
This episode features entrepreneur Naveen Kamanulo and investor Scott Kaplanis discussing their five-year partnership, including raising capital, building Indus AI, and navigating an acquisition by Procore. They share insights on investor criteria, founder-investor relationships, and the realities of exits in the venture-backed startup world.

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A grounded look at how founders and investors decide whether a company is ready to lift off.

This episode stays focused on the founder-investor handshake: how trust gets built, how capital reads traction, and how both sides decide a company is ready to lift off.

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For when you want the founder-investor side of startup building, not the myth version.

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