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How two Indian startups led Santa Monica VC firm March Capital to a billion-dollar return

• March Capital is known for early bets on Southern California enterprise companies like CrowdStrike.
• But it's the firm's Indian portfolio that has been producing the biggest returns lately. 
• Thanks to two Indian exits in the past month, the firm expects to return close to a billion dollars.

Santa Monica-based venture firm, March Capital, is best known for making early bets on Southern California enterprise companies like CrowdStrike, which started in Southern California's Irvine before moving to Silicon Valley's Sunnyvale. 

But it is the firm's small but mighty Indian portfolio – which makes up close to 15% of its more than billion dollars of capital under management – that has been producing its biggest returns lately. 

Thanks to two major Indian exits in the past month, March expects to return close to a billion dollars across its various funds and direct co-investments

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Managing Director of Clearstone Ventures, Sumant Mandal shares his insightful thoughts via crisp videos on different topics that are a must see for entrepreneurs before venturing out.

1. Power of Ideas

Of course just ideas don&#;t make one an entrepreneur but as is seen every big business starts with that one tiny idea..

With supposedly brilliant ideas juggling in your head often, how do you judge what&#;s worth pursuing? 

&#;Do your math and see how many people&#;s lives does your idea impact in a positive fashion&#; says Sumant.

2. Ideas That Get Funded

What is it that your idea basically is?? 

Is it new wine in old bottle with better promises or new wine in new bottle that&#;ll change the world?? If its the latter, you have definitely got the investors hooked. 

3. Incubating Companies

Hand holding from the ideation stage to a point where the company gets sold for millions of dollars, Sumant says they provide the right ecosystem for promising entrepreneurs.