Fidelity Growth Partners India (FGPI), the private equity arm of Fidelity International, has taken a significant minority stake in PL Engineering, a leading engineering services outsourcing player with a focus…
US-based Cloud.com, formerly VMOps, has raised an $11 million Series B round led by new investor Index Ventures. Current investors Redpoint Ventures and India-focussed Nexus Venture Partners also participated in…
Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal has an interesting post on the topic: Being a VC in an emerging markets like India is like being a VIP. You are at a very…
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Mintoo Bhandari who heads global PE firm Apollo’s India subsidiary in Mumbai. Apollo recently consummated its first PE investment in India – a $100 million…
Did you know that Micromax is the third-largest GSM mobile phone vendor in India with a 6% market share (after Nokia (62%) and Samsung (8%))? Neither did I. In fact,…
Sample this from Sanjay Chandra, MD of real estate firm Unitech, in a Business Today article on his lessons from the 2008-09 crisis. …the media really worsened the situation. The…
…is Microfinance, points out Vijay Mahajan, founder of Basix tracing the evolution of the sector in an article for Business Today. With the exception of the mobile telecom, perhaps no…
Forbes India has an article on how the plans of Ajay Singh-, BVR Subbu- and Ashish Deora-founded Argentum, which had acquired the bankrupt Daewoo Motor’s plant in Haryana to produce…
Subroto Bagchi has published an interview with Rajeev Mecheri, Co-founder of building security technology firm iMetrex, in Forbes India magazine. In time, they became the go-to organisation for every high-rise…
Extracts from the interview with Subrata Mitra, Partner at Accel Partners India that appeared in the GIVCA-Venture Intelligence India Venture Capital Report-2009 (that provides a synopsis of VC investments during…