Crickter Sachin Tendulkar has picked up an 18% stake in Smaaash Entertainment, the sports simulation venture, started by serial entrepreneur Shripal Morakhia. Morakhia earlier founded brokerage firm Sharekhan and investment…
Sequoia Capital has bought a minority stake in Ahmedabad-based Vini Cosmetics Pvt. Ltd for Rs.110 crore. Of this, Rs.35 crore was used to purchase the stake of an unnamed investor.…
PE funds including Tata Capital and Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity will pick up a significant minority stake in fourth round of funding for urban micro-lender Janalakshmi Financial Services for…
Canaan has already invested in Indian online classifieds firms like Bharatmatrimony, Cartrade and Indiaproperty and is hungry for more investments in the segment. Alok Mittal who heads the US headquartered…
From a post by Mukund Mohan of Microsoft Ventures As we start to invest in the early stage startup ecosystem in India, it is important to calibrate the possible returns…
Mukund Mohan of Microsoft Ventures has a numbers-based post on the probability of funding and the equity dilutions Indian entrepreneurs face depending on whether they go to an Accelerator first…
Microsoft will take on board 8 companies as a part of its winter batch for 2013. The companies are: AdSparx: Enables monetization for digital video delivered through the Internet for…
Zodius Capital has invested $3 million (around Rs 18 crore) in Bangalore- and Singapore-based big data and analytics company Antuit. Part of the investment has been used by Antuit, founded…
Intel Capital has invested $9 million (Rs.54 crore) in Bangalore-based start-up NxtGen Datacenter and Cloud Technologies that offers data storage services to corporations in India. This is the first round…
eBay-backed online marketplace Snapdeal has raised $75 million from Softbank. Three months ago, Snapdeal had closed a $75 million investment round from Ebay, Intel Capital, Russian venture fund ru-Net, Saama…