Panel on VC funding scene in the US
Extracts from a report on a recent panel discussion organized by IBD Network on the US VC funding scene: * Where venture dollars are going (consensus): Open Source software, wireless,…
Profile of IDFC’s new CEO
Businessworld has a profile of Rajiv Lall, the newly appointed CEO of Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) and former Managing Director at Warburg Pincus. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of…
Why Shriram Transport Finance attracts PE firms
Chryscapital, CitiGroup and FMO-Netherlands have invested into this Chennai-based listed truck financing firm. Why? Businessworld explains in a recent article: The Shriram group has three truck finance companies – Shriram…
“The Swami of Enterprise Software”
SiliconValleyWatcher conducted a short interview with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group, on the sidelines of Software 2005, Sand Hill’s annual enterprise software conference: The software-as-a-service sessions have been…
Silicon Valley Bank gets more buzz
I have blogged earlier about the good PR that Silicon Valley Bank’s Bangalore office is getting in the media. Well, here’s more PR for the office, this time in the…
TiE connections fetch Clearstone $100-M
From a Red Herring article: Clearstone (Venture Partners) has tapped into the Indian entrepreneur community via venture partner Vish Mishra and TiE, a worldwide entrepreneurship network with a mostly Indian…
Will US PE firms’ recent troubles in China, Korea favor India?
A new regulation prohibiting the creation of offshore companies “is bringing foreign private equity investments in China to a halt”, says a news item in Private Equity Week: VCs came…