Author: Arun

Businessworld has an article on Titan’s entry into the emarket. Every third person in India wears glasses. And that translates into a Rs 1,800-crore prescription eye wear market. While small…

Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and the EVCA Institute (part of European Venture Capital Association) are organizing a workshop titled “Foundation Course in Private Equity & Venture Capital” on April…

T&I’s Jerry Borrell has an interesting interview with Jay Jegannathan, Managing Director of Evolvence India Fund, the first Private Equity Fund of Funds focused exclusively on the Indian market. Some…

I just read an interesting 2002 profile of US-based hedge fund Galleon Group and its Sri Lankan-born founder, Raj Rajaratnam, in the Financial Times. (Galleon has begun to invest in…

Economic Times has a profile of Nitish Mittersain, Founder & CEO of Mobile VAS firm Nazara Technologies. The first area that the company forayed into was online gaming, through a…

Economic Times had an article on the future of independent software testing vendors in the wake of EDS’ acquisition of RelQ. (Ranga Reddy, CEO of Maveric Systems) says: “That is…

Businessworld has an article on how The Sona Group is using a round of PE financing from JM Financial to accelerate its growth – which had slowed down a bit…

Kamla Bhatt has an interesting podcast with IDG Ventures India’s Sudhir Sethi which has recently announced its first investment in the country. The interview covers the fund’s background, focus areas…

The Deal Blogs has an article providing a listing of Khosla Ventures’ portfolio companies based on a recent speech by VK. Most of the companies are based around the general…

Deepak Thomas and Vineet Buch have published a case study on YouTube. The reasons behind Google’s acquisition seem quite intuitive. YouTube falls in line with Google’s strategy of converting user…