Deal Alert: SVB releases report on Indian angel investments
Silicon Valley Bank has released the India Halo report providing a snapshot of investments made by angel groups in India from 2005 to 2012. The report shows that the Median…
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…
Deal Alert: Education content firm InOpen raises funds from Japan’s Benesse Holdings
InOpen Technologies, an education content company incubated in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), has raised a strategic investment in return for a small minority stake from Japanese education firm…
Deal Alert: Rajan Anandan invests in online food ordering service TravelKhana
Google India head Rajan Anandan has acquired minority stake in TravelKhana, an online food delivery service for railway passengers. Anandan and associates of Pushpinder Singh, chief executive of New Delhi-based…
Deal Alert: First Light invests in pre-school chain Sudiksha
Sudiksha Knowledge Solutions, which runs 22 pre-schools in and around Hyderabad, has attracted an investment from US-based First Light Investment. Sudiksha works mostly in slums and among low-income communities with…
Deal Alert: Trivone Digital acquires Godot Media
Trivone Digital Services, a digital media and content company backed by Accel Partners, has acquired Bangalore-based content services company Godot Media. Trivone will now use services offered by Godot Media…
Entrevista with Cosmic Circuits Founder Ganapathy Subramaniam
Cross posted from the Entrevista Blog Interview with Ganapathy Subramaniam, Founding-CEO of Bangalore-based semiconductor tech company Cosmic Circuits. (Cosmic was acquired in early 2013 by Silicon Valley-based, Nasdaq-listed electronic design…
Digital marketing co Flamingos Media gets acquired by UAE-based Kreata Global
Kreata Global, a Facebook preferred marketing developer based in UAE, has acquired Flamingos Media, a Digital & Mobile marketing company based at Startup Village, Kochi. Flamingos Media, which has a…
Telecom billing firm Qubecell acquired by US-based Boku
Boku, Inc., the global leader in carrier billing and cross-platform mobile payments, today announced the acquisition of Mumbai-based direct carrier billing firm, Qubecell. The agreement includes the purchase of all…
Deal Alert: Hive Technologies invests in data analytics firm Flutura
Hive Technologies, an investment and incubation firm backed by brothers Arihant Patni and Amit Patni, has made its first investment – in Bangalore-based Flutura, which provides data analytics solutions with…