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?…
VC investing in Internet-based Services and Mobile VAS
Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of research and networking services to the Private Equity and Venture Capital ecosystem in India, is organizing Internet & Mobile Connect, a roundtable event on…
VC Market – Feb 14, 2007
The following companies are seeking capital for starting-up / expanding their operations: 07-02-14-1: Chennai-based Mobile Technology company that provides Enterprise Data across multiple communication channels for enhancing productivity of mobile…
Blackstone’s $275-M investment in Ushodaya
Businessworld has more details on the Blackstone Group’s mammoth $275 million (over Rs 1,200 crore) investment commitment – in return for a 26% stake – in Hyderabad-based, Ramoji Rao-promoted Ushodaya…