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Keeping Your Company Afloat

During COVID-19 Crisis

01st May 2020 | 12:00 PM IST

Webinar Overview

  • Efficient ways to manage your cash runway
  • How to deal with down rounds ?
  • Possibilities of mergers & acquisitions during COVID-19
  • Should you accept a bailout?

Points of Discussion

  • The first casualty during any recession is liquidity followed by a spike in market volatility
  • Start-ups and enterprise globally will face increased challenges.
  • Changing tactics and preparing for the onslaught of bad economy is key
  • Manage your cash runway in such a way that you have a control over your current and future expenses, through real time projections
  • Customer retention needs to be prioritised over customer acquisition
  • Reinvent your purpose and adapt better and faster to a post-crisis world through identifying and creating targeted solutions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions could emerge as the new survival tactic as the symbiotic relationship between a Start-up and larger firms can shell out beneficial deals
  • Accepting the possibility of having to bailout rather than folding. This could be a potential rich strategy in the long run than an instant remedy
  • experienced management, tightly run operations and an ability to act and respond fast will emerge as frontrunners
  • Innovation with a single-minded focus on profitability should be the strategy to surf the recession tide
  • Funding drought will lead to down rounds causing a rise in arbitrariness with respect to valuations. With the decrease in funding amounts and investors, start-ups will have to look at institutional investors.

Who Should Attend ?

  • CEOs & CFOs
  • Success-oriented Business Owners
  • CXOs working towards Business Strategies
  • Startups & Entrepreneurs
  • nvestors, VCs & Accelerators
  • Finance, Operations, Marketing & HR Professionals

Our Expert

Nandini Sankar

Nandini Sankar

Founder & CEO, TOPPEQ

Nandini Sankar is the Founder & CEO of TOPPEQ, India’s first of its kind Equity & Cash Table management company that provides a one-stop-shop for online cap table and ESOPS management, electronic share certificates and professional services support with agreements and filings. With more than two decades of experience, Nandini is a well-known name in the global market for hedge funds and equity management. Nandini has proven her expertise in identifying market needs and innovative and strategic cost management with a demonstrated track record of building revenue streams and scale.

Nandini Sankar is the former MD for APAC at SS&C GlobeOp as well as the President and COO for the company’s India segment. She was the Director of Technology with GlobeOp Financial Services prior to the company getting acquired by SS&C at a valuation of 950 M USD in 2003. She was also associated with Long Term Capital Managements, where she was responsible for LTCMs credit exposure and treasury management applications as the Technology Strategist.

Nandini has many laurels in her hat, GlobeOp being featured among top 5 Great Places To Work under her leadership is one among them. She also has a successful entrepreneurship track record with her previous venture, 201K, a platform that helps domestic workers with their pension plan scheme that was sold as a successful startup in 2019.

Nandini’s core foundation is built on the principle of ‘Never Give Up’. She strongly believes that there is always more than one way to get the work done and taking the traditional approach is never her first preference. Driven by a solution-oriented mindset and creative thinking, Nandini’s latest venture is poised to disrupt the world of equity and cash management for start-ups in the coming years.

Nandini holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Rochester. A mother of two and an ardent soccer fan, she describes herself as a big picture person, a design fiend and a generally curious person. She says she is more likely to attend the funeral of a fish if the invite looks cool enough.