{"podcast":{"title":"The Neon Show","slug":"the-neon-show-862453","podcast_index_feed_id":862453,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1601695.rss","website_url":"https://neon.fund/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/4me3nndjub23jxn91gn772p77ooa?.jpg","author":"Siddhartha Ahluwalia","episode_count":382,"summary":"Hi, I am your host Siddhartha! I have been an entrepreneur from 2012-2017 building two products AddoDoc and Babygogo. After selling my company to SHEROES, I and my partner Nansi decided to start up again. But we felt unequipped in our skillset in 2018 to build a large company. We had known 0-1 journey from our startups but lacked the experience of building 1-10 journeys. Hence was born the Neon Show (Earlier 100x Entrepreneur) to learn from founders and investors, the mindset to scale yourself and your company. This quest still keeps us excited even after 5 years and doing 200+ episodes. We welcome you to our journey to understand what goes behind building a super successful company. Every episode is done with a very selfish motive, that I and Nansi should come out as a better entrepreneur and professional after absorbing the learnings.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T02:20:15.730302+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453"},"episode":{"title":"What Top 1% Investors Look For in AI Startups | Umesh Padval, Seligman Ventures, Ex- Bessemer","slug":"what-top-1-investors-look-for-in-ai-startups-umesh-padval-seligman-ventures-ex-bessemer","published_at":"2026-02-13T11:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453/what-top-1-investors-look-for-in-ai-startups-umesh-padval-seligman-ventures-ex-bessemer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1601695/episodes/18673968-what-top-1-investors-look-for-in-ai-startups-umesh-padval-seligman-ventures-ex-bessemer.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1601695/episodes/18673968-what-top-1-investors-look-for-in-ai-startups-umesh-padval-seligman-ventures-ex-bessemer.mp3","summary":"Do startup valuations today make sense? Umesh Padval, an early investor in Cohere, now valued at about $7 billion shares why Cohere stood out at the time of his investment. He shares what he saw early that made him believe this was not just another AI model company. Umesh is the Founding Managing Partner, Seligman Ventures and previously at Thomvest and Bessemer Venture Partners. He brings experience from investing across multiple tech cycles, from chips to cloud to AI. Umesh talks about how ...","meta_description":"Do startup valuations today make sense? Umesh Padval, an early investor in Cohere, now valued at about $7 billion shares why Cohere stood out at the time…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3117,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-neon-show-862453/episodes/what-top-1-investors-look-for-in-ai-startups-umesh-padval-seligman-ventures-ex-bessemer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453/what-top-1-investors-look-for-in-ai-startups-umesh-padval-seligman-ventures-ex-bessemer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}