034 SaaS Accelerator and early-stage fund for SaaS founders | Podcas with Prasanna Krishnamoorthy - Upekkha

Upekkha is a value SaaS accelerator and early-stage Fund helping founders with growth and optionality. Losing optionality is not worthwhile chasing growth. Upekkha helps founders craft Value SaaS businesses. Value SaaS is different from Vanity SaaS. It is building a subscription business in a capital-efficient way and getting there fast. Connect with Prasanna 👇 Upekkha: https://www.upekkha.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasannainindia/ Tekpon is a SaaS marketplace born out of the genuine desire to help people change how they consume and purchase software products and services. Tekpon has behind a team of enthusiastic tech lovers whose main goal is to help users boost their lives and businesses with the right software. Connect with Tekpon ⚡ Tekpon: https://tekpon.com SaaS Entrepreneurs & Startups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tekpon The topics we've discussed 🕐 00:00 Intro 00:12 What is Uppekha? 00:25 Focused only on B2B SaaS 00:35 Revenue is a must 01:00 Is it only in India? 01:24 SaaS is growing in India 02:37 How long is the program? 03:20 3 batches a year 03:30 15-20 startups /batch 03:40 Why should a SaaS start-up join Uppekha? 05:25 What are the Uppekha fees? 05:40 What are the top lessons founders learn? 08:48 How do you find mentors? 10:17 Online community 10:40 Remote cohorts 11:32 How can investors join? 11:58 $700,000 worth of credits in other SaaS 13:00 The community is exclusive 13:34 When is the next cohort? 13:48 How did you find your first startups? 14:37 When did you start Uppekha 14:47 Uppekha team & co-founders 16:37 What is your story, Prasanna? 17:30 Top 3 biggest mistakes B2B founders make 19:56 Co-founder relationships *must watch 21:00 Piece of advice from Prasanna 22:06 What's your favorite software? 22:26 Outro