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Dream Sports Lost Its Cash Engine. Now It Wants the Rest of the Fan's Day
The company that taught millions of Indians to manage imaginary cricket teams is attempting a harder rebuild: turning one enormous audience into many smaller businesses without the paid contests that once funded the machine.
Joydeep Bhattacharyya
Joydeep Bhattacharyya is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, a leading venture capital firm, where he focuses on enterprise and cloud platform investments - particularly in cybersecurity and automation. A former Microsoft engineer who helped shape Office 365 and Skype for Business, and a one-time enterprise investor at Shasta Ventures, he brings deep operational and strategic experience to early-stage companies. An immigrant from India, he is a known advocate for international founders navigating the U.S. startup ecosystem. His portfolio includes companies like Dragos, Snyk, Human Security, MindTickle, and Contentsquare. Outside the boardroom, he plays the sitar, roots for the Indian cricket team, and co-founded a rural welfare initiative in India.
Ankur Nagpal
Ankur Nagpal is an Indian-American entrepreneur, investor, and capital-efficient founder who built Teachable from a dorm-room frustration into a $250M exit, then reinvented himself as a solo-GP venture investor (Vibe Capital, $70M+ raised), fintech builder (Carry, acquired by AngelList in 2026), and prolific financial educator (Silly Money newsletter, 86K+ subscribers). In April 2026 he joined AngelList full-time as GP of USVC, a public venture fund co-chaired by Naval Ravikant with stakes in xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vercel.
Rohit Sharma
Rohit Gurunath Sharma - nicknamed 'The Hitman' - is India's most decorated ODI batsman and the only cricketer in history to score three double centuries in ODI cricket. A scholarship kid from Borivali, Mumbai who grew up partly with grandparents while his father worked as a transport storehouse caretaker, Rohit rose to captain India to the 2024 T20 World Cup (the first undefeated campaign in tournament history) and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. Holder of the ODI world record score of 264, 33 ODI centuries, and captain of Mumbai Indians for five IPL titles, he retired from Test cricket in May 2025 and is now targeting the 2027 ODI World Cup.