The IT industry’s impact on the Indian economy
Based on an online survey of over 42,000 IT professionals, CLSA has come out with an interesting report, – titled “Chain Reactions” – about the impact of the growth of…
State of Indian Life Sciences industry
Business Today has a special feature on the Indian Life Sciences industry including the generics, contract research, original drug development and biotech sectors. Mid-January, Mumbai-based Nicholas Piramal announced a deal…
Is the media celebrating Silicon Valley VCs a bit too much?
This PEHub article on a man – “Anand Lyer Vaidyanathan” (persumably, Anand Iyer Vaidyanathan) – arrested for repeatedly tresspassing Seqouia Capital’s Sand Hill Road office seems to indicate as much.…
Sarbox and Private Equity
Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman pointed out how buy out firms are benefiting from Sarbanes Oxley regulations at the recent Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference. Knowledge@Wharton has an…
Speaker list for Internet & Mobile Connect – Mumbai, March 15
Over 15 leading VC investors and top executives from Online Services and Mobile VAS companies will be speaking at the event. The speaker list includes: Murugavel Janakiraman, Bharatmatrimony.com Alok Mittal,…
Should VCs buy out angels?
Interesting discussion at VentureWoods between Deepak Shenoy and Roshan D’Silva on this “perennial topic“. Here are their first posts (in the comments section): Deepak Shenoy said,Alok, true – there is…
Tax proposal 173 in Budget ’07-08: Impact on Indian Private Equity
At the Venture Intelligence APEX’07 event, an executive from a Fund-of-Funds that invests in India-based Private Equity (PE) funds remarked that his firm did not find much incentive to invest…
The Subhiksha Story
Rediff.com has an interview with R.Subramanian, an IIT and IIM grad who is the Founder & CEO of discount retail chain Subhiksha which is today India’s largest organized retail chain…
VC Market – Feb 21, 2007
The following companies are seeking capital for starting-up / expanding their operations: 07-02-21-1: Real Estate firm is looking for Rs. 10 crores (about $2.2 million) for setting up an IT…
Why JP Morgan’s distressed asset fund is in India
Economic Times has an interview with Sanjai Vohra is the managing director for JP Morgan Chase’s Asia special situations group. Why is there a sudden interest in the NPL space?…