Hemu Ramaiah – Story of an Indian Retail Pioneer
At Venture Intelligence, we recently had a great experience interviewing Hemu Ramaiah, founder of the Landmark bookstore chain (in which the Tatas acquired a majority stake in 2005). For me,…
Deal Alert: Mayfield invests Rs 40-Cr in higher education firm Centum Learning
Edited excerpts from the Press Release: Mayfield India Fund has made an investment of Rs 40 crores in higher education firm Centum Learning Ltd, a Bharti Group firm. Mayfield’s Vikram…
The LP view of VC Funds
Chris Douvos has put up an interesting set of slides on how institutional investors view VC funds as an asset class. (Section 4: Whither Venture Capital Allocations? is especially interesting.)…
“India tops BRICs for Infra Investments”
The Deal magazine has a Cover Story on infrastructure investment opportunities in the BRIC countries with a special highlight on India. Of all the emerging markets, India best illustrates the…
Deal Alert: Agri-logisitcs firm Sohan Lal raises Rs 10-Cr from Nexus Ventures
Edited excerpts from the press release: Sohan Lal Commodity Management (SLCM), an agri-commodity logistics and procurement company based in Delhi, has received a Rs 10 crore investment from VC firm…
Deal Alert: Komli acquires Australian online advertising firm PostClick
Nexus Ventures- and Helion Ventures-backed Komli Media has acquired PostClick, Australia’s leading premium website representation firm, to become the leading digital media network platform across Asia Pacific. Together, the company…
Event Alert: Urban Transport Congress on June 24-25
Ideas Exchange is organizing Urban Transport Congress (UTC) India 2010 at the JW Marriott Hotel on June 24–25. The event will be a forum for decision makers in the infrastructure…
Young Entrepreneurs’ Summit on June 18, 2010
The Indian Young Entreprenurs’ Forum is organizing its summit on June 18 in Mumbai to provide a platform for networking, contact building and understanding new opportunities and challenges for young…
Is Bangalore losing its start-up edge?
Deepak Srinath of Viedea Capital, an angel funded investment bank that recently opened its first non-Bangalore office in Mumbai, has a post on why the firm “does not have a…
The Shale Gas Revolution
In an article in the Economic Times, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar argues how new technology is helping economically extract gas from shale rock, which in turn promises to revolutionise both…