#58 Cutting 512B Cloud Waste | Fundraising in Q1 2026 | Challenges for Desi Founders in Europe | Vikram Das
Venturing with Vishesh — Startup Founder Interviews on SaaS, AI, Fundraising & Venture Capital. · 2026-01-23 · 52 min
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Episode 58 with Vikram Das, Co-Founder & CEO at Yasu.I'm joined by Vikram Das, the Co-Founder & CEO of Yasu. Vikram spent two decades in the industry with stints at Cognizant, and AWS. He went from closing 50 million dollar cloud deals for AWS to walking into a room of 70 strangers in Amsterdam to find a Dutch co-founder he'd known for weeks, and they recently raised a little over 1 Million dollars to solve the exact problem he helped create! In this episode we talk about what does it take to build an AI Cloud Engineer, finding co-founder love and losing it, Challenges of being immigrant founder in Europe, Some of his learnings from their fundraising journey through all the bubble talk and more!Key Discussion Points: Fundraising is something that every founder is concerned about. Is it a necessary evil, or can you find alternative ways to secure funding? What are the unique challenges faced by Indian-origin founders in Europe, particularly in tech, and how can they overcome them? How can founders balance their mental health while navigating the startup journey, and what role does mindfulness play in this process?