Deal Alert: IAN invests in London-based workforce management software startup SwiftShift
Indian Angel Network (IAN) is to make an investment in UK start-up SwiftShift, a provider of software solutions. London-based SwiftShift has developed a software solution that allows companies to quickly…
Deal Alert: Helion, Accel invests in e-commerce search firm Zettata
Helion Venture Partners and Accel Partners have invested in Bangalore-based e-commerce search firm Zettata. Founded by Srinivasan Seshadri and Vikram Srinivasan, two former academics who had also worked at Bell…
Deal Alert: Vishal Gondal founded wearable tech firm GOQii raises funds from Google exec, others
Former Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal’s new wearable tecg venture GOQii has raised several million dollars from angel investors including Google Senior Vice President Amit Singhal, Flextronics CEO Mike McNamara, EDventure’s…
Deal Alert: Ankur invests Rs. 1.5 cr in 3 early stage rural ventures
Mumbai-based impact investment fund, Ankur Capital, has invested in three early-stage ventures that focus on rural markets. The three firms are: CropIn, a cloud-based farm management systems company, home compost…
Deal Alert: AngelPrime leads Rs.3.1 Cr round for coder hiring startup HackerEarth
HackerEarth, a start-up which helps multinational companies hire programmers, has raised Rs 3.1 crore seed funding from Angel Prime as it prepares to expand operations in India and overseas markets.…
Entrevista with Raj Nair, Founder of Avalon Consulting
Cross Posted from the Entrevista blog. Interview with Raj Nair, Founder-Chairman of Avalon Consulting, the Mumbai-headquartered, international consulting firm and also research and analytics firm Ugam Solutions and artificial intelligence…
Deal Alert: Lionrock Capital, Nisa Godrej, others back baby products e-tailer Hopscotch
Singapore-based investor LionRock Capital, besides Industrialist Adi Godrej’s younger daughter Nisa, Skype co-founder Toivo Annus and Diapers.com co-founder and CTO Wei Yan, have invested $2 million in Hopscotch, a Mumbai-based…
Who Killed Growth Capital in India?
A huge pall of uncertainty surrounds the future of Growth Capital investing in India. Is the segment, that represents the bulk of both the supply and demand for private equity…
Profile of Boutique Investment Banks
From the Economic Times article: Two deals lifted their fortunes. The first: advising Dr Reddy’s to purchase Group Pharma, a smaller drug firm, for Rs 25 crore, which fetched them…
Deal Alert: Gray Matters India receives equity funding from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Gray Matters India Pvt.Ltd (GMI), an organization that has been incubated and co-funded by Atlanta-based Gray Matters Capital(GMC), announced today an INR 45 million equity investment from Michael & Susan…