Can accelerator demo days become more data driven?
Stanford’s Steve Blank believes that, with his methodology, VCs can do to start-up investments what Brad Pitt (in the movie Moneyball) did to baseball management. We focus on evidence and…
Profile of Pune-based Realty Firm Vastushodh’s Founder Sachin Kulkarni
From the ET profile: We were on a roll till 2008, signing several similar joint ventures for luxury construction projects, but then the recession resulted in losses worth Rs 1.5…
Profile of Security and Intelligence Services founder R.K.Sinha
From the ET Profile The next milestone came three years later, when we learnt that Australia’s largest security agency, Chubb Security, was up for sale. Its revenue was nearly four…
The Man Behind Indian Private Equity’s Favourite Bank
In Indian Private Equity circles, one often tends to hear of Rantakar Bank spoken of in almost fawning terms. Not surprising since, as the Venture Intelligence PE Deal database indicates,…
Blow-by-Blow Accounts on Private Equity-Promoter Blowups
Economic Times has a roundup up of the various recent blowups between Indian promoters and their Private Equity investors. The article starts with how employees of Sagar Ratna restaurants –…
Why NEN’s Srikrishna wants Indian entrepreneurs to stop reading Techcrunch
From Srikrishna’s blog post (emphasis mine) Every time I hear an entrepreneur in India tell me “It’s Angel List meets GitHub” I try not to grimace…Silicon Valley, even within the…
Deal Alert: Accel, Ventureast invest Rs.48-Cr for 30% in K.Ganesh’s in-home healthcare firm Portea
Accel Partners and Ventureast have together acquired 30% stake in Portea Medical, a tech-enabled, in-home healthcare services company, majority-owned by serial entrepreneur duo Krishnan Ganesh and Meena Ganesh. Accel and…
Rajiv Bajaj, The Maverick Scion
From the Business Today cover story profile of the Bajaj Auto Managing Director in the context of Bajaj Auto’s plans to launch a controversial Quadricyle: The company had already proved…
Startup Events Galore
From a Business Today article on the phenomenon: Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) &…
Zomato investment signals ascent of Corporate VCs in India?
In the context of online restaurants review service Zomato raising about $20M with revenues of less than $2M, seed investment specialist Anand Lunia has a quora post on how corporate…