Sound Bite: Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital at APEX’13 Summit & Awards
Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital “If we were to shut down the Mauritius route (for investments), there is a real danger that we will destroy Private Equity in the country. And it’s…
How Real Estate financing has adapted to the New Normal
From a recent Business Today Cover Story: There was a rush of foreign direct investment into Indian real estate when the sector was first opened, but that is now drying…
Profile of Manipal Hospitals
From the profile in The Smart CEO: Today, Manipal Health Enterprise’s network encompasses 10 corporate hospitals with 1,600 beds and five teaching hospitals with 3,300 beds, across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,…
Getting to Series A
Gaurav Saraf of Epiphany Ventures has a post in StartupCentral guiding founders to solutions to getting around the current crunch for “Series A” (first round of VC investments). Venture Intelligence…
What should count as true traction
Sumanth Raghavendra, serial/parallel entrepreneur (currently founder of Q-Prize winner Deck App Technologies and Live Inbox and previously founder of Sabeer Bhatia- and SoftBank-funded InstaColl), has a great post on what…
E-tailers warm up to “pop-up stores” at malls
From a Businessworld article: The assistants at the kiosk walk consumers through the process of shopping online, availing exciting discounts and buying products. Since its launch on 21 December, the…
Deal Alert: Health food chain Zao scouting for VC funding
Zao Foods Private Limited, a health food chain started by former investment banker Mitali Kalra, is scouting for venture capital investment for scaling up. The company is also looking for…
Crucial Connect to Venture Capital & Private Equity Investors
Accelerators, Incubators, Angel Networks, Seed Funds, Early Stage VC Funds, Growth Stage VC Funds, Mid Market PE Funds, Buyout Funds, Large/Global PE Funds…. the Indian PE/VC Investor Ecosystem is getting…
Stars Aligned to Foretell Future of Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital
Dear Colleague, In 2004, the buzz around one mega exit – of Private Equity investor Warburg Pincus from Bharti Airtel – got institutional investors across the world excited about the…
Deal Alert: Analytics firm Ideas Software and Consulting acquired by US-based Saxon Global
Saxon Global Inc., an Irving (Texas) based Data and Analytics consulting company, has acquired Bangalore-based Ideas Software and Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (ISAC Global), a boutique big data and web intelligence…