Kerala’s moment: Five lessons from IvyCap’s Vikram Gupta on turning talent into scale

e27 - Nov 13, 2026

In 2019, Ubisoft invited me to Paris. As I strolled through Station F, the sprawling startup campus that French billionaire Xavier Niel opened in 2017, I ran into a name I never expected to see nearly 8,000 km from home: Kerala Ventures. A venture capital firm, founded by French partners, named after the state I […] The post Kerala’s moment: Five lessons from IvyCap’s Vikram Gupta on turning talent into scale appeared first on e27.

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