How to Trigger Explosion of the Angel Investment Market in India? Ask for Less!
Prajakt Raut of Applyfi feels more startups need to ask for INR 50 lakh cheques versus wasting precious time trying to raise INR 3 Cr in their first angel round.…
What VCs Do; How Long They Work; On What; etc
Microsoft Ventures head Mukund Mohan has posted some extracts from an US academic paper on “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?“. Some highlights: VC-backed Cos Dominate the IPO Scene Roughly…
E-Commerce Malaise: Is GMV or Valuation Expectation the Real Villain?
The Lessons E-Commerce Entrepreneurs & Investors Should Learn from their Microfinance Peers In an article for Economic Times, Private Equity investor Vivek Singla points why blaming the measurement parameter Gross…
Media Mention: South China Morning Post on rising interest of Chinese investors in Indian startups
South China Morning Post uses Venture Intelligence data to quantify the rising interest of Chinese VC and Strategic Investors for Indian startups. According to venture capital tracker Venture Intelligence, from…
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas tops League Table for Legal Advisors to M&A Transactions in H1 2016
AZB & Partners, Trilegal complete the top 3 slots; Khaitan & Co. tops by deal volume Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (CAM) topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables for Legal Advisors to…
StanChart tops Transaction Advisor League Tables for M&A deals in H1 2016
Standard Chartered Bank topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables for Transaction Advisor to M&A transactions for H1 2016 advising M&A deals worth $2,844 million (across 2 qualifying deals) followed by…
AZB leads Legal Advisor League Table to Private Equity Transactions in H1 2016
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas claim No.2 & No.3 slots AZB & Partners has retained its status as the top Legal Advisor for Private Equity transactions during the first…
Nexus Ventures’ Naren Gupta bemoans “short-termism” among current Indian startup founders
Naren Gupta, the highly respected Silicon Valley based founding partner of Indo-US cross-border VC firm Nexus Ventures, has published an article in Forbes India highlighting some areas in which the…
Podcast Interview with Mark Kahn of Omnivore Capital
US-based AgFunder has a podcast interview with Mark Kahn, Co-Founder of pioneering India-focused agri-business focused VC firm Omnivore Capital. In the interview, Kahn contrasts the Indian agtech startup scene with…
VCs Skip Vacations in May; Month Witnesses 45 Investments
Data from Venture Intelligence’s VC Database shows the month of May was the most brisk month for Venture Capital so far in 2016 – with investors making as many as…