PE investments in 2010 almost double to $7.9-B
Highlights from the Venture Intelligence Indian 2010 Annual Private Equity Roundup Report Private Equity firms invested $7,974 million over 325 deals in India during the 12 months ending December 2010,…
Announcing APEX’11 PE/VC Summit & Awards
Don’t miss renowned speakers including Gurcharan Das, Ex-CEO of P&G India and author of India Unbound and The Difficulty of Being Good, confirmed to address the 2011 Awards Function. This…
Deal Alert: Ojas Ventures invests in RiverSilica Tech
Bangalore-based early stage VC fund Ojas Ventures has invested in RiverSilica Technologies, a company that provides a hardware-based solution for speeding up video streaming services. RiverSilica’s solution accelerates video streaming…
Cleantech Investors Set Sight on Solar, Water Related Cos.
Catalyzed by new government policies favouring Solar Energy and multiple demand-driven opportunities for water-related companies, Private Equity & Venture Capital firms are focusing keenly on these Cleantech sectors, reveals a…
Is Bangalore losing its start-up edge?
Deepak Srinath of Viedea Capital, an angel funded investment bank that recently opened its first non-Bangalore office in Mumbai, has a post on why the firm “does not have a…
Can Premji and Narayanamurthy alter the Indian VC landscape?
In the context of Azim Premji of Wipro and N.R. Narayananayamurthy of Infosys carving out funds for VC-type investments from their family offices, here is an extract from an article…
VC Interview: Venetia Kontogouris of Trident Capital
Venture Intelligence recently spoke with Venetia Kontogouris, Managing Director of Trident Capital. The US-based VC firm has invested into six companies with significant operations in India including Elucido, Microland, MingleBox,…
“BFSI presents great entry point for consumer, infra sectors”: PE Investors
Microfinance, Infrastructure Finance and service providers to financial services firms, are among the favourite sectors of PE & VC investors within the industry, a survey by research firm Venture Intelligence…
How Sequoia changed the face of VC in India
Outlook Business has an article on how Sequoia Capital India (formerly Westbridge Capital) – among the few VC firms in India from the 2000-era which continue to make early-stage investments…
Localize and simplify: The Indian Web 2.0 mantra
The Telegraph has an article profiling Indian “Web 2.0” start-ups. Exciting as all this is, the fact remains that most of these new websites are modelled on popular international formats…