This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Ash Arora, the youngest Partner at LocalGlobe — the #1 early-stage VC fund in EMEA and a backer of legendary companies like Wise, Canva, Twitter, Robinhood, and more.
Ash shares her journey from a refugee colony in Delhi to leading investments in frontier tech across London and beyond. We dive into her time at Polygon Ventures (where she managed a $100 million fund with LPs like Sequoia, Lightspeed, and SoftBank), her experience advising the Indian Prime Minister’s Office on emerging tech startup investments and strategic policy impacting 1.5 billion people, and the lessons she’s learned about power, adversity, and much more!
Video version of episode 118:
Audio version of episode 118:
Key takeaways:
- Why adversity builds better founders
- How gut instinct is pattern recognition
- What VCs often get wrong about hardware and deep tech
- Why most startups don’t actually need venture capital
- How to read people like the best investors do
- The worst (and best) advice she’s ever received
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/05/eu-startups-podcast-episode-118-ash-arora-partner-at-localglobe/
