The Road to Series A Just Got Longer & Harder
Deepak Gupta, Co Founder of early stage investment platform Equitycrest, has made an analysis (republished in Inc42) – using Venture Intelligence data – of the “new normal” in terms of…
Are Indian Unicorns Taking the Media for a Ride?
Mint has listed (on its front page) various fancy “GMV” goals totted out by CEOs of Indian E-Commerce Unicorns – at various points to various media outlets – but have…
Did Culture Clash Send Punit Soni B2SV (Back to Silicon Valley)?
Even as the question of whether Flipkart can provide profitable exits to its investors remains a multi billion dollar one, the firm has started to see high profile exits of…
Kishore Biyani’s “It’s Not Very Important to be Online” – Practical Wisdom or Famous Last Words?
The founder of the retailing focused Future Group has declared e-commerce as an optional area in an interview to Mint: “I have been a very good student of e-commerce business,”…
How Much Should You Diss Competition?
From the CB Insights newsletter of April 13, 2016: From the CB Insights newsletter of April 15, 2016: While we can’t help but smile at CB’s pugnacity, at Venture Intelligence,…
Private Equity investments tick up 24% to $3.6 Billion in Q1’16
Quarter sees 12 Mega Deals ($100-M or more) across E-Comm; Financial Services; Healthcare & Infra Private Equity firms invested about $3,620 million across 144 deals during the quarter ended March…
The 10 Worst VC Board Members
From a Tweet by Bessemer Ventures: Creative Reminiscent of Bessemer’s famous Anti-Portfolio. Venture Intelligence is India’s longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity,…
Indian Startup Ecosystem attacked by “Integrity Cancer”: Kashyap Deorah
Kashyap Deorah, author of “The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups” and the former President of the Future Group’s e-commerce venture Futurebazaar.com, has a LinkedIn post describing…
Manish Sabharwal @ Venture Intelligence APEX’16 PE-VC Summit
Manish Sabharwal, Co-Founder of leading staffing services company Teamlease, that pulled off a successful IPO in the choppy environment of early 2016, weighed in with typical flourish on various issues…
B2B Services, EdTech and IT Product Cos witness return of interest even as overall Venture Capital investments dip 32% in Jan-Mar’16
Venture Capital firms invested $242 million over 85 deals in India during the three months ending Mar 2016, data from the Venture Intelligence VC Deals Database shows. The investment activity…