This week, Citigroup announced the first customer – Chennai-based Secova eServices – for its new “venture lending” service to Venture Capital-backed companies in India. Apart from providing a term loan,…
In the context of the launch of large buyout-focused PE funds like Blackstone and The Carlyle Group in India, Raghuvir Mukherji, a consultant with the Financial Securities Group of Infosys…
Extract from a recent The Deal.com report: (Tim Draper, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson) is best known for self-promotional stunts such as singing at conferences, dressing up as Batman…
In this podcast interview to VentureVoice, Brad Feld of Mobius VC talks Issue of products vs. consulting, VC-CEO relationship, relevance of business plans, working with other VCs, dealing with lawyers…
In this downloadable mp3 audio interview (“podcast”) to PodTech.NET, Bessemer Ventures General Partner Rob Chandra talks about the industry segments that his firm is actively investing in these days, about…
Business Today has a fascinating profile of PE-backed stock broking and financial services firm Indiabulls (A) striking feature of Indiabulls is its ability to raise money. In 2000, it had…
Sanjiv Sidhu founded supply chain software i2 Technologies seems to have emerged back from the brink, says this BusinessWeek article, providing a lot of credit Michael McGrath, who took over…
Business Today has published a detailed profile of ChrysCapital co-founder and Sr. Managing Director Ashish Dhawan, who has managed to successfully transform his firm from an early-stage, Internet services focused…
Venture capitalists never like deals where their money is used to buy the shares owned by founders and other early investors. They like their money to go “into building the…
Business Today has a good article on India’s gaming software sector and its players. Mobile telephony! That’s what’s driving mass gaming in India. Telecom operators say subscribers are downloading 500,000…