Mint revisits goings on at Helion Ventures
Mint columnist, Snigdha Sengupta, who had written a piece titled “The trouble with Helion Venture Partners” in December 2015 (when three of its junior partners – Rahul Chowdhri, Ritesh Banglani…
How 26/11 caused a 2 year set back to Seedfund
At the recent Venture Intelligence APEX PE-VC Summit, Bharati Jacob, Managing Partner, Seedfund shared how the closure of Seedfund’s second fund got set back by more than two years because…
The Road to Series A Just Got Longer & Harder
Deepak Gupta, Co Founder of early stage investment platform Equitycrest, has made an analysis (republished in Inc42) – using Venture Intelligence data – of the “new normal” in terms of…
Are Indian Unicorns Taking the Media for a Ride?
Mint has listed (on its front page) various fancy “GMV” goals totted out by CEOs of Indian E-Commerce Unicorns – at various points to various media outlets – but have…
Did Culture Clash Send Punit Soni B2SV (Back to Silicon Valley)?
Even as the question of whether Flipkart can provide profitable exits to its investors remains a multi billion dollar one, the firm has started to see high profile exits of…
Kishore Biyani’s “It’s Not Very Important to be Online” – Practical Wisdom or Famous Last Words?
The founder of the retailing focused Future Group has declared e-commerce as an optional area in an interview to Mint: “I have been a very good student of e-commerce business,”…
How Much Should You Diss Competition?
From the CB Insights newsletter of April 13, 2016: From the CB Insights newsletter of April 15, 2016: While we can’t help but smile at CB’s pugnacity, at Venture Intelligence,…
Private Equity investments tick up 24% to $3.6 Billion in Q1’16
Quarter sees 12 Mega Deals ($100-M or more) across E-Comm; Financial Services; Healthcare & Infra Private Equity firms invested about $3,620 million across 144 deals during the quarter ended March…
The 10 Worst VC Board Members
From a Tweet by Bessemer Ventures: Creative Reminiscent of Bessemer’s famous Anti-Portfolio. Venture Intelligence is India’s longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity,…
Indian Startup Ecosystem attacked by “Integrity Cancer”: Kashyap Deorah
Kashyap Deorah, author of “The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups” and the former President of the Future Group’s e-commerce venture Futurebazaar.com, has a LinkedIn post describing…