Zomato investment signals ascent of Corporate VCs in India?
In the context of online restaurants review service Zomato raising about $20M with revenues of less than $2M, seed investment specialist Anand Lunia has a quora post on how corporate…
PE investments decline 67% to $1.3 B in Q3’13; 9 month figure drops by 38%
IT deals claim 45% of pie; Buyouts in Manufacturing on the Rise Private Equity firms invested about $1,300 million across 75 deals during the quarter ended September 2013, according to…
Why Canaan Partners wants to back more Online Classifieds ventures
Canaan has already invested in Indian online classifieds firms like Bharatmatrimony, Cartrade and Indiaproperty and is hungry for more investments in the segment. Alok Mittal who heads the US headquartered…
Crucial Connect to Venture Capital & Private Equity Investors
Accelerators, Incubators, Angel Networks, Seed Funds, Early Stage VC Funds, Growth Stage VC Funds, Mid Market PE Funds, Buyout Funds, Large/Global PE Funds…. the Indian PE/VC Investor Ecosystem is getting…
Stars Aligned to Foretell Future of Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital
Dear Colleague, In 2004, the buzz around one mega exit – of Private Equity investor Warburg Pincus from Bharti Airtel – got institutional investors across the world excited about the…
Should Angels Bet on Follow-on Funding from VCs?
From the post by Alok Mittal – who incidentally wears both hats – at VentureWoods: The venture capital industry in India is relatively small. And besides sporadic instances of “spray…
A “Bansal Mafia” in E-Commerce?
From a TiE Mumbai SmashUp e-poster: We’ve heard of “McKinsey Mafia”, “IIM-A Mafia”, etc. being used to refer to the sheer number of alum of these hallowed institutions that go…
Rob Chandra of Bessemer on E-Commerce Valuations
Forbes has a video interview with BVP Partner Rob Chandra in which he talks about Internet and e-commerce company valuations. He also talks about the impact created by Internet companies…
Deal Alert:Ventureast invests Rs.25-Cr in meat processing firm VKS Farms
Edited excerpts from the press release: Ventureast Life Fund, an early growth and growth stage fund focused on the food and agriculture, clean environment and healthcare delivery sectors, has invested…
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.…