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This Shark Tank-inspired Indian web series gets 18 winning pitches earning Rs 41.5 Cr in funding in Season 1

Horses StableEntrepreneurs holding stellar business ideas, a panel of investors, and the winning pitches have held the Indian reality series, Horses Stable, applying the tried-and-tested Shark Tank formula. Talking about the same in an interview on a prime media platform, Founder Prashant Agarwal revealed what takes into making of a successful deal.

Mark Cuban, Robert Herjavec, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Daymond John, and Kevin O’Leary held the top positions from ABC’s business reality programme, Shark Tank. The extremely popular show featured a rotating group of investors, business experts and billionaires, including a host of number of aspiring entrepreneurs. Over the years, it has evolved as a major platform to bring in new entrepreneurial ideas to life.

Bengaluru-based Horses Stable worked on the same principle with a group of hand-picked entrepreneurs, panel of investors, and a winning pitch. The Shark Tank-styled web show strives to offer a funding platform for the Indian businesses. The goal behind roles in to help the businesses find the ideal investor and open up exciting opportunities to investors.

“The idea is inspired by Shark Tank but with a few twists and tweaks. We have a deal master on-board, which helps all the Indian entrepreneurs understand the valuation of their companies and structure a proper deal with the investors or the Horses,” mentioned Prashant Agarwal, Founder, Horses Stable.

Besides the deal master himself, the show also introduces a rich panel of Horses (the ‘Sharks’ equivalent), including investors like- Sandeep Agarwal, MD of M/s Karnataka Plascom Engineers Pvt Ltd; Kevin Saboo, CEO of FlatWorld Mortgage; Sandeep Agarwal, a business critic; and Rajesh Kumar, MD of Daemon India.

The series was conceptualized around December last year and started filming in February 2019 and here the first season with around 13 episodes, spotlighting over 50 pitches from the aspiring entrepreneurs from around the country is completed.

Explaining about the impartial choice for the web series, Horses Stable, Prashant explained, “To keep the entire process impartial, the selection, scrutiny, screening, and short listing of entrepreneurs and company founders has been outsourced to the team of Natio Cultus, a consulting and financial advisory company. The top quartile is shortlisted once an investor-readiness report is generated by the team.”

“We coach them, we groom them for the pitch day,” he further adds.

The web show is currently streaming on YouTube, offering a unique opportunity for infusing better entrepreneurial ideas to life that aren’t always funded. With over 59 pitches heard over the course of Season 1, around 18 businesses – including a mix of start-ups and SMEs and cracked successful deals, it has garnered an overall funding of Rs 41.5 crore from the investors.

Horses Stable is currently taking in applications for Season 2, which is scheduled to start production around August this year.

Preeti Singh

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She is an aspiring writer and has been into our the domain of content writing since a year. She joined CT as an intern and soon took over full-fledged writing for Bollywood. She contributes news articles for CT and intends to write on diverse issues on Bollywood.
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