VCs turn cautious in 2013; investment activity down 18% to 206 deals worth $805-M
IT & Healthcare deals dominate while Education, Financial Services and Cleantech cos drop from favor Venture Capital firms invested about $805 million over 206 deals in India during the twelve…
Pros and Cons of investing in Holding Companies: The PE Perspective
Darius Pandole, Partner at PE Firm New Silk Route, has an article in Business Standard on the topic. Extracts: The +ves: Secondly, it can assist in raising capital based on…
Secondary transactions between PE firms dominate landscape in 2013
Overall PE investments plunge to lowest levels since 2009 Private Equity firms invested $7.5 billion (over 384 deals) in India during the 12 months ending December 2013, according to analysis…
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…