Profile of Blackstone’s Indian Ops
Businessworld has a cover story on Blackstone’s Indian operations. For the Blackstone India team, closing a transaction is just the beginning. The pressure to show high returns starts building up…
“Indian PE industry grew too fast over the last 3-4 years” – Interview with Ashish Dhawan, Senior Managing Director, ChrysCapital
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Ashish Dhawan who, over the last two years, has been sounding a skeptical note on unsustainable valuation levels linked to the ever-inflating public markets. What…
“The PE Guys Have Lost Money! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
This morning, I saw yet another article on how PE firms, which have made investments in listed companies, are now sitting on significant paper losses. These days, such articles have…
Stanford Panel Discussion on Mobile VAS in India
ContentSutra has videos of an interesting panel discussion hosted by Stanford University titled “Indian Wireless Market—Why Mobile?, Why India?, Why Now?”. Speakers on the panel included Ashok Narasimhan of July…
Professional vs. User-generated content
At a time when user-generated content is threatening the viability of several “professionally” generated/edited media business models, Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting debate on this topic. Turow points out (that) navigating…
Flurry of business media launches
Businessworld has an article on the heightened activity in the business media sector. Global titles, such as Fortune and Forbes, are clearly betting on their brand name and India’s growing…
Profile of the fashion retail-focused Murjani Group
Businessworld has a profile of the Murjani Group which is focused on high-end fashion retail. Mohan Murjani was legendary, not for starting a design house or his own label, but…
“Cos. we invest in should be able to match or better the ‘Reliance Rate of Return’” – Interview with Harshal Shah, CEO of Reliance Technology Ventures
Venture Intelligence recently spoke with Harshal Shah, CEO of Reliance Technology Ventures Limited (RTVL) which has announced a series of investments in telecom technology companies like Sequans Communications, Stoke, E-Band…
“Funds from corporate groups not a challenge to existing PE firms” – Interview with Brian Lim of CDC Group
Venture Intelligence recently spoke with Brian Lim, Portfolio Director (Pan-Asia) at CDC Group, on recent trends in the Indian Private Equity market. CDC, a UK government-owned fund-of-funds with net assets…