We are #WTFunded

Sneak-peek into an evening with Nikhil Kamath and co

Big big news to share - BioCompute is now backed by India’s biggest and boldest non-dilutive grant for young founders.

The WTFund is a passion project of Nikhil Kamath, the super successful founder of Zerodha, Gruhas and True Beacon, who started out as a first-generation entrepreneur fairly young in life, and this fund is his way of paying it forward to young entrepreneurs in India.

After a rigorous selection process spanning many months, several (not-so-easy) rounds and competing with 1500+ applicants from across India, we have emerged as one of the top 9 companies for the grant.

Image Description: Top 9 teams of WTFund with Nikhil Kamath, some of the coolest entrepreneurs in India today

All the winning teams spent a fun evening together at the WTFund office in Bangalore recently, and I absolutely loved it.

It was like being inside the WTF podcast with Nikhil, but 10X better. WTF is one of my favourite podcasts given how incredibly curious Nikhil is, how well he articulates questions and gets his podcast guests to dig deeper into their life experiences. In fact, I decided to apply to the WTFund after I listened to the episode with the biotech titan Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (also mostly because my then intern Samriddhi kept nudging me to apply, thanks Sam).

I got to sit right next to Nikhil, speak to him for 15ish minutes about my journey, what we are building at BioCompute and what our biggest challenges are, and share Oh! Nuts chips with him. He listened very attentively, asked meaningful questions and offered to support in any way he can apart from the grant itself.

Image Description: Anagha with Nikhil Kamath at the WTFund office

This was also an opportunity to connect and learn from the other founders in the room who are creating a dent in their own spaces, and become a part of a life-long community of other entrepreneurs I can reach out to at any stage of my journey. Check out the other companies funded by WTFund here (yes we have been featured on Economic Times and the likes).

Super grateful to the small and audacious team at WTFund who made this happen - Harnidh, Suchet, Vivek and Arshia you guys are awesome. In fact, Arshia made sure I was well-fed during the event (especially because my health was in tatters) and Suchet texted me to make sure I had got home safe. And I don’t think many funders (apart from gradCapital, of course) go to this extent to make founders feel so much at home.

Image Description: The one with the WTFund team

Can’t wait for the journey ahead, onward and upward!

P.S. We are hiring for full-time in-person MEMS and microfluidics engineers at BioCompute, check out the JD and shoot us an application