Profile of employability training firm Talent Bridge
Smart CEO has profile on this company which focuses on making youth from Tier II and III cities more employment ready. After three years of research, the Graduate Certificate in…
Off Topic (Slightly): Impact of Financialisation
NPR’s Planet Money has a very interesting podcast with Satyajit Das, a finance professional-turned-author, where he talks about the imbalances created by finance (and financial engineering) driving businesses, rather than…
Data Highlight: Blackstone Lights Up Q3’11 Investing Over $500-M
US-headquartered Private Equity firm Blackstone stepped on the gas on its India investments, committing to invest over half a billion dollars in just the three months ended September 2011, according…
VC firms invest $217-M in Q3’11
Venture Capital firms invested $217 million over 43 deals in India during the three months ending September 2011, according to a study by Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a research service focused…
Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures invests $4-M in mobile apps developer Genwi
From the Press Release: GENWI (http://genwi.com), the leader in cloud publishing platforms for Tablets and Smartphones, has raised $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by Nexus…
PE firms invest $2.25-B in Q3’11
PE Investments in first 9 months of 2011 surpasses entire of 2010 as deal sizes grow significantlyPrivate Equity firms invested about $2,249 million across 98 deals during the quarter ended…
“Who’s Afraid Of Private Equity?”
Extract from an article by Haigreve Khaitan of corporate law firm Khaitan & Co. in The Economic Times. Promoters may be able to assess investors’ intentions from the manner of…
Nexus-backed Gluster to be acquired by Red Hat for $136-M
Edited excerpts from the Press Release: NYSE-listed Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, has agreed to acquire privately held Gluster, Inc, a…