The first season of Shark Tank India aired on SET India (Sony Entertainment Television). It featured seven investors or Sharks as described by the show who listen to entrepreneurs pitch ideas for a business or product they wish to develop. These self-made multi-millionaires judge the business concepts and products pitched and then decide whether to invest their own money to help market and mentor each contestant. The show featured total 121 ideas and of them 67 got funded. The total capital raised in the first season was ₹ 42.5 crores.
We analyzed how sharks invested their money in the ideas of their likings and created different categories based on their investment style. We present the Shark Tank Awards
Nominations – The Sharks
Ashneer Grover from Bharat Pe, Aman Gupta co-founder of boat, Anupam Mittal CEO of Shaadi.com, Ghazal Alagh co-founder of MamaEarth, Namita Thapar ED of Emcure Pharmaceuticals and Peyush Bansal CEO of Lenskart were the seven featured sharks for season one. The sharks invested their own money for the ideas they made the deal on.
Awards
The Big Ticket Shark
This shark paid the most amount for single idea. This shark was so obsessed with the idea that he didn’t mind what amount he ended up paying.
Note only the amount paid for equity will be considered.
Any Guess? Who wrote the biggest cheque?
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Its Aman and Peyush for paying a sum of ₹ 1 cr. Aman paid this to buy his competitor Hammer Lifestyle while Peyush paid the same amount to Insurance Samadhan.
Big Shark of Small Pond
This shark bought the highest % of equity in the company, regardless of the money paid. This shark wants to be the big fish in a small pond.
And the big shark is:
Again Peyush Bansal. He invested ₹ 25 lakh plus ₹ 22 lakh debt for a whopping 75% stake in Sid07 Designs.
Small shark of Big Pond
This shark has the opposite approach of the previous one. This shark doesn’t want a huge stake, but is happy with a tiny bit stake in a big or potentially big company. This shark wants to be a small fish in a big pond.
The shark is:
Anupam and Aman. They both invested ₹ 50 lakh each to get a tiny holding of .75% for each of them.
Herd Shark
This shark prefers to collaborate with other sharks. This shark seeks approval and investment of other sharks before investing. This shark follows the hear. This shark made maximum investments when another shark was involved.
The Shark is:
Aman Gupta. He made total of 24 investments in which another shark was involved. But he is not far off, most sharks invested in collaboration with others. Like Anupam invested in 22 ideas along with other sharks.
Lone Shark
The brave shark, the shark who likes to go solo. This shark sees potential where other sharks doesn’t. This shark made maximum solo investments.
Any guess who the shark is.
Its Peyush Bansal. He made total 7 investments in ideas where no other shark was involved. Surprisingly the shark who came second is actually – the Herd Shark Aman Gupta who made 5 solo investments.
Greedy Shark
This is the real shark. This sharks want to get maximum equity % by paying the lowest rupees. This the shark among the sharks, the most greedy shark.
The award for being the most greedy shark goes to:
Vineeta Singh. She made total 16 investments and got total 136% equity across the companies by paying investment amount of ₹ 3.35 cr. She ended up paying average of ₹2.47 lakh per 1% of equity she received, the lowest amount per 1% of equity among other sharks.
Diversified Shark
Investments 101: Diversify your investment. This shark follows investment 101 to diversify their investment and buy in on as many ideas as possible. If one doesn’t work other might.
The shark who invested in most number of ideas is:
Aman Gupta, he invested in 29 ideas. He topped the table by a narrow margin of just one extra investment. Peyush who invested in 28 ideas came in second.
The Poor Shark
This is the poorest shark among all sharks. They invested least amount of money in overall season 1 of Shark Tank
The Poor Shark is, any guess?
Ghazal Goel, in total she invested ₹ 1.3 cr in the first season.
The Rich Shark
Saving the best for the last. This is the richest shark. This shark had deep pockets and splurged it all on shark tank.
The shark with maximum bank balance is?
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Aman Gupta. He invested total ₹ 8.94 cr in 29 ideas.
Thanks for joining in for the Shark Awards this season. We’ll be back with more awards next season. Please suggest what other categories we should cover in next season.
If you think we should cover any other event for awards, please let us know in comments.
Hitesh Gulati, CFA 