Salone Sehgal On Raising An Interactive Media And Games Fund Through A Pandemic With The Desi VC

Raising a fund is hard. Raising one in 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, for a category as young as Interactive Media and games in India is another matter.

On The Desi VC, Salone Sehgal, Founder and Managing Partner of Lumikai, a fund dedicated to interactive media, digital platforms and games, looks back on the fund’s first year and the journey that led to it.

She explains how a fund’s thesis shapes its fundraise, how LPs look at gaming and what is working in Indian games. She also covers how to solve for monetisation at scale, how gaming startups can build an India strategy, the role later-stage funds and VCs play in shaping regulation, and where fantasy sports sits in the skill versus chance debate.

If you’re building a games company in India, or deciding whether to back one, this hour is well spent.

Press play and rewind to year one.