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…
Entrevista with Cosmic Circuits Founder Ganapathy Subramaniam
Cross posted from the Entrevista Blog Interview with Ganapathy Subramaniam, Founding-CEO of Bangalore-based semiconductor tech company Cosmic Circuits. (Cosmic was acquired in early 2013 by Silicon Valley-based, Nasdaq-listed electronic design…
Digital marketing co Flamingos Media gets acquired by UAE-based Kreata Global
Kreata Global, a Facebook preferred marketing developer based in UAE, has acquired Flamingos Media, a Digital & Mobile marketing company based at Startup Village, Kochi. Flamingos Media, which has a…
Telecom billing firm Qubecell acquired by US-based Boku
Boku, Inc., the global leader in carrier billing and cross-platform mobile payments, today announced the acquisition of Mumbai-based direct carrier billing firm, Qubecell. The agreement includes the purchase of all…