Kirani, is passionate about working with start-ups when they are at the ideation stage.
The investor has now put together a fund of $3.75 billion to back private companies.
On a cloudy Monday this month, Mohammed Irshad flew from Kochi to Gurugram to attend an exclusive investor networking event. Among a handful of founders selected for the event, Irshad was to pitch his peer-to-peer learning start-up Notespaedia for funding in front of top venture capital investors such as AngelBay, Elevation Capital, and Inflection Point Ventures. He failed to woo them, but the feisty entrepreneur was determined to continue his hunt.
Start-ups have begun looking at ways to conserve cash.
Freshdesk also launched an IT service management product Freshservice to offer cloud-based service desk solution for smaller companies for their internal IT support.
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