When Investors Entered Our Journey for the First Time

📍 November 2014
Just two months after launching TruckSuvidha publicly, we had our first brush with something we had only heard about in startup stories: investors.

Coming from a business family background, our definition of growth was traditional – you earn, reinvest, and expand step by step. The idea that someone from outside could put in money, trust your vision, and help you scale faster was completely new for us. Words like valuation, term sheet, equity, dilution were just jargon floating in startup circles.

And suddenly, here we were, talking to real investors who were curious about logistics. They wanted to know what we were building, how the model worked, and where we saw ourselves in the coming years. For them, it was about opportunity. For us, it felt like entering a whole new world.

To be honest, we were not prepared.

• We didn’t have a pitch deck – in fact, we didn’t even know what one was.
• We couldn’t answer questions about market size, dilution, burn rate, exit strategy.

At that stage, all our energy was on solving adoption problems, building trust, and proving that a truck-and-load matching platform could actually work in India.

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But that first interaction opened our eyes.
We realized that investors see businesses differently than founders.

• Founders are buried in execution – customer calls, daily firefighting, product tweaks.
• Investors zoom out – they look at scale, vision, and the bigger market play.

For first-time founders, this can feel intimidating. You’re still figuring out the basics, yet you’re asked to imagine five years ahead. But these interactions matter. They expand your horizon. They force you to think beyond survival and start imagining scale.

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That meeting in 2014 did not bring us funding, but it gave us perspective. We walked away knowing three things:

✅ Investment is not just about money, it’s about partnership.
✅ To attract capital, you must first show clarity of vision.
✅ You cannot wait until you “need” funding to start learning – you must be prepared before the knock comes.

For us, this moment wasn’t about raising money.
It was about realizing that building a company is not only about customers and technology, but also about learning to speak the language of investors – without losing sight of the ground realities of logistics.