Mumbai-based payment processing start-up firm Citrus Payment Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,has revealed that it, has raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital in return for a minority stake and launched a new…
Gurgaon-based HealthKart, which sells consumer healthcare goods online has raised $14 million in Series B funding from Intel Capital ($8 million) and Sequoia Capital ($6 million). Including the new round…
Akhil Gupta, Blackstone Group “I have always told my international colleagues that India will not be a linear growth story – we will take three steps forward and two steps…
Special Guest at the Venture Intelligence APEX’13 Awards, Ashish Chauhan, CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange provided a witty account of his experiences as an entrepreneur including in founding two startup ventures:…
Sandeep Naik, General Atlantic at APEX’13 Summit & Awards “The sense of complacency – in terms of assuming foreign investors somehow have to invest in India – has cost us…
K.P.Balaraj, WestBridge Capital; Vijay Pattabhiraman, JP Morgan; Akhil Gupta, Blackstone Group; Srivatsa Krishna, IAS; Sandeep Naik, General Atlantic; Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital; Neeraj Bharadwaj, Carlyle For the more detailed APEX’13 Summit…
Ashish Dhawan, ChrysCapital “If we were to shut down the Mauritius route (for investments), there is a real danger that we will destroy Private Equity in the country. And it’s…
Falguni Nayar, former MD and CEO of Kotak Investment Bank, has launched e-commerce portal, Nykaa.com. The venture, which went live in late 2012, offers wellness and beauty products. It is…
Gurgaon-based start-up Bright Lifecare Pvt Ltd, which runs the online health store Healthkart.com, is about to close a Series B funding round of up to $14 million led by Intel…
Multilateral funding agency ADB has made an investment of $2 million (about Rs.1.08 crore) in Bangalore-based Simpa Networks, which offers a prepaid payment platform to enable affordable clean energy solutions…