N. Sriram of Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Niren Shah, Managing Director of Norwest Venture Partners, who heads the Silicon Valley firm’s India investments out of Mumbai. Niren was earlier…
These days, there is a lot of good advice online – see examples here and here – on raising Venture Capital in the Indian context. A lot of knowledgeable persons…
I just read VC Bill Burnham’s post on the lessons he learnt from his investment in Stratify. An Internet-era company that was originally founded as PurpleYogi, the company has several…
The following companies are seeking capital for starting-up / expanding their operations: 08-03-19-1: Delhi-based Management Consulting Services firm seeks $1-5 M for expansion 08-03-19-2: Mumbai-based hospitality services company providing conferencing,…
Clean fuels firm seeks $12.5 M (in two tranches of $7 & $5.5 M) Company manufacturing conversion kits to convert diesel engines to CNG is looking to raise about US$12.5…
Corporate lawyer Rajiv Lutha has an article in The Economic Times on the amendments required to various M&A-related laws to facilitate tools to help ward off hostile takeovers. In the…
“We have tempered our growth expectations. But we still expect to see private equity returns commensurate with the risk we are taking, and far in excess of other markets,” says…
Business Today has published the second edition of its list of Hottest Start-ups. The list includes two portfolio companies of IDG Ventures India (IT security start-up iViz and 3D visualization…
New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin has an analysis of Steve Ballmer’s missteps in bidding for Yahoo. ..most of all, Mr. Ballmer didn’t realize — though he had been warned…
Basab Pradhan, CEO of Gridstone Research and former Head of Sales & Marketing at Infosys, has a critical post on Indian IT Services companies “acquiring” the captive outsourcing units of…