Naveen Tewari of InMobi on SoftBank and Ram Shriram
Extract from The Economic Times profile of the mobile advertising company made famous by the recent $200 million investment that it attracted from SoftBank: On Raising Funds From Ram Shriram.…
Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures invests $4-M in mobile apps developer Genwi
From the Press Release: GENWI (http://genwi.com), the leader in cloud publishing platforms for Tablets and Smartphones, has raised $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by Nexus…
PE firms invest $2.25-B in Q3’11
PE Investments in first 9 months of 2011 surpasses entire of 2010 as deal sizes grow significantlyPrivate Equity firms invested about $2,249 million across 98 deals during the quarter ended…
Nexus-backed Gluster to be acquired by Red Hat for $136-M
Edited excerpts from the Press Release: NYSE-listed Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, has agreed to acquire privately held Gluster, Inc, a…
“The good and the bad of IT firms listing in the US”
Extracts from article by Sudheer Kuppam of Intel Capital in The Mint Investor frenzy around the anticipated future listing of other Internet category leaders, such as Groupon (deal-of-the-day site) and…
Are Indian Ecommerce companies overvalued?
Anand Lunia of Seedfund has an article touching upon this at StartupCentral.
Fund Manager Interview: Mohan Kumar of Norwest
Venture Intelligence spoke to Mohan Kumar, Executive Director, Norwest Venture Partners India, on the firm’s recent investments in the VC segment. Kumar, who had earlier worked for over 18 years…
PE firms continue to be bullish on Education investments
As the only industry in which investments continued to growth through the 2008-09 downturn, Private Equity & Venture Capital investors continue to be bullish about investing in Education companies, reveals…
Deal Alert: Fidelity to invest $15-M in K-12 education firm Mind Shaper
Edited excerpts from the press release: Fidelity Growth Partners India (FGPI) is to invest up to $15M to acquire a significant minority stake in Mind Shaper Technologies Private Limited. Branded…
Deal Alert: Financial software firm Agility raises $5.7 M from IDG Ventures, others
From the press release: BFSI software products company, Agile Financial Technologies (www.agile-ft.com), announces the successful completion of its US$ 5.7mn Series A financing, led by IDG Ventures India (IDGVI). This…