Anand Sridharan of Bessemer Venture Partners-India and Roshan D’Silva, Managing Partner of Middle East technology incubator One Nine Three (and co-founder of IIT-Bombay incubatee MyZus Infotech), have an interesting debate…
Vineet Buch, a Principal at BlueRun Ventures, has launched a blog titled Venture Explorer Update: Buch recalls how he was hired away in March 2005 by BlueRun Ventures when the…
Alok Mittal, the co-founder of JobsAhead.com (acquired by Monster.com in 2004) and now a venture capitalist with Barings India Private Equity, has launched a blog titled VentureWoods. In one of…
The Investment (1999-2001) Between September 1999 and July 2001, Warburg Pincus invests $292 million in Bharti Tele-Ventures in return for a 19% stake, the first tranche being invested in September…
Businessworld has an article on the various players that have introduced the digital distribution of movies to cinema theaters across India. It emphasises more firmly than ever India’s position as…
Never mind infrastructure issues. Leading global contract Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) firms are opening plants in India at a rapid pace. The latest addition to the list is Sanmina-SCI, the…
Why are PE and VC firms scurrying to set up real estate focused funds in India? The streaming video of the presentation on “Real Estate Investment Opprtunities in India” by…
Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article explaning why Warburg Pincus is bullish on India. After the usual tale and numbers about the firm’s investment and hugely profitable partial exit from Bharti…
Bill Burnham of Celsius Capital has a great post on the lessons he learned from investing in Datapower, a company that was recently acquired by IBM. The entrepreneur “sometimes” knows…
Business Today has a detailed profile of Baba Kalyani-led Bharat Forge, including nominating the firm as “the Infosys of the auto components sector”. I couldn’t get past a couple of…