Entrepreneur-turned-VC launches blog
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…
Warburg Pincus-Bharti saga ends; Nets $1.324 Billion for PE firm
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…
Digital distribution of feature films picks up momentum
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…
EMS firms beeline to India
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…
“Real Estate Investment Opprtunities in India”
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…
Why Warburg Pincus prefers PIPEs
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…
Lessons a VC learned from a good exit
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…
“The Infosys of auto components”
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…
Low cost airlines in China and other markets
Of course, everyone knows about the low-cost revolution in the US skies thanks to pioneers like Southwest Airlines and more recent entrants like JetBlue. But how about other countries? Did…
What motivates a corporate VC?
Until 2004, Intel Capital was probably the sole active corporate VC investing in the Indian technology sector. 2005 has seen the VC arms of Nokia, Cisco, IBM, TI and other…