Why GoZoomo shut down & returned VC money and What It Means
A TechInAsia article chronicles GoZoomo’s story and its shut down: The issues faced by the peer-to-peer used car marketplace company were: 1. Poor unit economics due to low conversions for…
Co-founder Quitting? Do you have these Protective Clauses?
“(Ashok) Arora, a B-Tech from IIT-Bombay (a colleague said he walked into the entrance exam unprepared and came out with flying colours), who wrote most of the critical programs for…
Making Indian Entrepreneurship More Desi
Cross posted from The Startup Journey Blog Writing in Founding Fuel, Baba Prasad, CEO of Vivekin Group who teaches entrepreneurship in B-Schools, bemoans the fact that a lot of the…
RBL Bank: PE Backed IPO Analysis
Login into the Venture Intelligence Deal Database and click on the below links to view transaction and other details: RBL Bank Company Profile & PE Investments in the Company Venture…
What’s Next for Fintech?
Data from the Venture Intelligence Venture Capital Deals Database shows that, even in 2015, when E-Commerce/Online Retail was ruling the roost (grabbing over 45% of the investments), Fintech investments had…
The Colorful Story of Div Turakhia & the Media.Net Exit
On August 23, Dubai and New York-based ad-tech firm Media.net announced its acquisition by Chinese Consortium led by Zhiyong Zhang, the chairman of Beijing Miteno Communication Technology Co. Ltd, in…
Government Standing Up to Foster Startups: Archana Khosla, Vertices Partners
“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow” ― Shannon L. Alder Gone are the days of uncertainty and incertitude…
How the fintech sector is gearing up for digital disruption: Article by Vinayak Burman, Vertices Partners
“By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your…
RBI Proposes To Expand The Investment Arms For FPIs: Article by Archana Khosla of Vertices Partners
Following the Union Budget 2016-17, RBI plans to expand the investment ambit for FPIs by allowing them to put capital in unlisted debt securities as well as in securitized debt…
Proposed norms for P2P lending: A setback for cash-poor but promising startups? Article by Archana Khosla of Vertices Partners
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein True to what Einstein said, comes the…