With a mission to solve boredom for the 400+ million Indians online, Pocket Aces is India's leading digital entertainment company focused on mobile video. The company operates five socially distributed content brands:FilterCopy (short videos), Dice Media (multi-episode web series), Gobble (food, travel, home videos), Jambo (young-adult animation) and Nutshell (infotainment videos), as well as a direct-to-consumer platform: Loco (e-sports streaming platform).The company's socially distributed video network has amassed >12 billion video views with a current run rate of over 500 Million monthly views. Following the success of Dice Media’s marquee webseries Little Things on YouTube and Facebook (garnering more than 200 million minutes watched), Season 2 and 3 were picked up as Netflix Originals and aired in more than 193 countries, in 5 different languages. Loco, is one of the fastest growing apps in the country today with more than 23 million registered users with active users spending over 30 minutes daily on the app. The company has grown its team strength to 210 with offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Delhi.Pocket Aces has worked extensively with large advertisers including PepsiCo, Flipkart, Amazon, Samsung, One Plus, Google, Kingfisher, Kotak Mahindra Bank, etc. The company's content has also been syndicated to various OTT platforms such as Ola Play and Reliance Jio, airlines such as Emirates and Cathay Pacific, cable partners such as Tata Sky, and international platforms such as China's Youku Tudou and Bytedance.Major investors in Pocket Aces include Sequoia Capital, North Base Media, 3one4 Capital and the co-founders of India's largest IT services firm, Infosys. In July 2019, the company announced a ₹100 crore investment from Sequoia India, DSP Group and 3one4 Capital, besides other prominent investors.To find out more, please visit http://www.pocketaces.in, or email us at pocketaces@pocketaces.in.

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After building up a stellar team for I3N, I am now advising on strategy and growth.

Intellecap is a 12-year old advisory firm dedicated to working with scalable for-profit business that have a clear social impact on the ground. We work across the sectors of Education, Healthcare, Agri, Clean Energy, Financial Inclusion, Water and Sanitation. The annual Sankalp Forum hosted by Intellecap is currently the largest convening in the social enterprise space globally bringing together over 1000 stakeholders each year ranging from enterprises to investors, corporates, foundations, governments, policy makers, the press, etc. With the goal of opening up such investment opportunities to domestic investors, we launched the Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N or I-cube N) about 3 years back, which I have been heading. I3N is India's first angel network focusing on funding social enterprises, and is an exclusive network of ~85 investors including some influential individuals and early stage funds, who come together to co-invest into deals. Investors join the platform for the love of supporting brilliant entrepreneurs who are building sustainable models to solve developmental challenges.I3N's uniqueness lies in leveraging the 100-people Intellecap team to source the best social enterprises, and provide extensive support to them before and after investment. We have quarterly in-person showcase meetings where we showcase ~5 carefully vetted enterprises looking for investment. In the last couple of years since inception, we have screened over 1100 companies, showcased over 50 companies to our investors, and 10 of these companies have received investment, and 4 have already raised further rounds.

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