NASSCOM and ICICI Knowledge Park have promoted the NASSCOM ICICI Innovation Fund (NIIF) to stimulate technology innovation in India through providing seed capital funding for opportunities in emerging technologies. The…
Bloomberg has an article on how the Vikram Pandit-founded Old Lane (which was acquired by Citigroup recently) has performed post the sub-prime crisis. Old Lane LP, the hedge-fund firm acquired…
Helion Ventures-backed Anatara Solutions has attracted a lot of media buzz including in a Businessweeek column around its “second generation” outsourcing model. Extract from the Businessweek column: They call their…
I recently came across an interesting angel-backed company, Woodstock Ambience, which has launched a residential hostel in Bangalore to provide accommodation specifically to bachelors who work at BPO/IT Services companies.…
Businessworld has an article providing a spirited defense of organized retail against the violent protests and lobbying by the middlemen. Traditional traders and middlemen are angry about the way organised…
The following companies are seeking capital for starting-up / expanding their operations: 07-08-29-1: Bangalore-based diversified group seeks > $5 M for investing in Hospitals, Mining Wind Farm, Hydel Power, &…
Businessworld points out how Indian telecos are cashing in by spinning off their tower businesses. For Indian companies, this serves two purposes. One, it unlocks the value that is stuck…
Are Indian companies going to be able to provide enough jobs for the increasing millions of young Indians that are going to graduate each year? If not, the oft spoken…
Today’s DNA has an article quoting VCs like Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners and Ashish Gupta of Helion VC – who were earlier Internet entrepreneurs themselves – saying how they…