The ‘what’s Doordarshan?’ Generation
Business Standard has an interview with Dheeraj Sinha, regional planning director, Bates 141 and author of Consumer India: Inside the Indian Mind and Wallet. In his book, Sinha puts Indian…
New Fund Alert: Matrix Partners India closes $300-M 2nd fund
From the Press Release: Matrix Partners India today announced it has closed a $300 million second fund. With the closing of this fund the firm has $600 million under management…
Profile of aroma chemicals maker Privi Organics
From the Times of India profile of the company which recently raised capital from StanChart Private Equity: Two years into the business and Privi had not yet created a sufficient…
VC Interview: Kanwal Rekhi of Inventus Capital
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Kanwal Rekhi of early stage investing focused Indo-US cross-border VC firm Inventus Capital. The firm, which started investing in late 2008, has been among the…
LP Interview: Johanna Klein of ADB
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Johanna L. Klein, Investment Officer, Capital Markets and Financial Sectors Division of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), who is active in the multilateral development financial…
Investing Lessons from Indiana Jones
In his latest blog post, “Super LP” Chris Douvos extracts lessons for investors from Indiana Jones quest for the Holy Grail (in the movie, The Last Crusade). This challenge is…
Deal announcement: Allsec acquires Retreat Capital Management
Technology Holdings’ client, Allsec Technologies, has completed the acquisition of Retreat Capital Management, a full service mortgage BPO company headquartered in Irvine. Technology Holdings was the exclusive advisor on the…
Does the Headstong deal herald more IT-BPO consolidation?
In the context of the recent acquisition of Capital Markets focused IT Services firm Headstrong by BPO giant Genpact, former Infy sales head Basab Pradhan, has an interesting post suggesting…
Press Release: CCCL CEO R Sarbeswar to deliver Entrepreneurship lecture at IIT-Madras
Interactive lecture to feature as part of research firm Venture Intelligence’s “Entrevista” series Venture Intelligence, India’s leading research service focused on Private Equity/Venture Capital and M&A deal activity, has partnered…
PE investments vault to $3.3-B in Q1’ 11
Amount invested more than doubles over previous quarter; Median Deal Size jumps to $14.5-M Private Equity firms invested about $3,296 million across 83 deals in India during the quarter ended…