Cofounder Shashank Murali reveals the strategy behind chasing angel investors
Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Aprameya Radhakrishna, Utsav Somani and others have backed the startup
TapChief recently raised $650K funding round from over 50 investors
“I don’t care about the cheque size, I want you by my side to tell me everytime I’m stupid,” — TapChief cofounder Shashank Murali remembers telling Freecharge and Cred founder Kunal Shah on a WhatsApp call. That call led to Shah investing in Murali’s gig workers or freelancer marketplace.“Because the mission is much greater than all of us. This is about people, their lives, and we need to punch above our weight, accept criticism with grace, and be better than yesterday because there’s no better way than to emulate and operate like Rahul Dravid,” — Shashank Murali, TapChief.
TapChief’s preference for onboarding marquee investors is well reflected in the angels that have backed it, including the likes of Paytm’s founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Utsav Somani of AngelList India, Flipkart’s former executive Mekin Maheshwari, Slideshare founder Amit Ranjan, TaxiForSure’s founder Aprameya Radhakrishna, Innov8’s Ritesh Malik, BYJU’S CPO Ranjit Radhakrishnan, Praful Thachery of BigBasket, Satyen Kothari of CitrusPay, POSist founder Ashish Tulsian and others.!function(e,t,s,i){var n="InfogramEmbeds",o=e.getElementsByTagName("script")[0],d=/^http:/.test(e.location)?"http:":"https:";if(/^\/{2}/.test(i)&&(i=d+i),window[n]&&window[n].initialized)window[n].process&&window[n].process();else if(!e.getElementById(s)){var r=e.createElement("script");r.async=1,r.id=s,r.src=i,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,0,"infogram-async","https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js");