Deal Alert: Madrat Games raises funding from Blume Ventures, others
MediaNama Blume Ventures, along with First Light Ventures, has invested $500,000 in MadRat Games. Adit Parekh from Blume will join the MadRat board. Bangalore-based MadRat Games makes offline and online/mobile…
New Fund Alert: US-India tech fund Naya Ventures announces first close on $50-M fund
Naya Ventures, a venture capital fund specializing in early stage companies in the mobile and cloud markets, has announced the first closing for its $50 million fund. Headquartered in Dallas,…
Extreme Startup Hiring
I was recently a guest at the Insead “India Business Dialogue” event at Bangalore. The event aimed to provide Insead grads – who are naturally mostly employed at large corporations…
Know the level (of thy company) before you “let go”
And other vignettes from TiECon Chennai-2012 “I’m going to just stay still like you,” said the rabbit to the owl on the tree branch above. And proceeded to stay still.…
Deal Alert: AR Rahman-promoted Qyuki scouting for strategic investors
Economic Times Qyuki, the fledgling digital media venture promoted by director Shekhar Kapur and composer AR Rahman, is looking for strategic investors in a second round of funding. It had…
Deal Alert: Analytics software & services firm NettPositive acquired by Equifax
NYSE-listed Equifax Inc. has acquired a controlling stake in NettPositive, a Bangalore-based provider of analytics and business intelligence solutions to the financial services, insurance, retail and telecommunications industries. NettPositive, co-founded…
Deal Alert: Cloud app development firm MindHelix to join Alchemist Accelerator program
Yourstory.in MindHelix, a Startup village Cochin incubatee, has been selected to be a part of the Menlo Park, California (USA) based Alchemist Accelerator. MindHelix is a new generation Enterprise Cloud…
Deal Alert: Cloud security startup CipherGraph attracts invests from Chamath Palihapitiya
Yourstory.in Bangalore-based startup CipherGraph Networks which provides enterprise cloud security solutions, focusing on cloud security and accessibility has raised money from US-based former Fecebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. The funding raised…
Web First, Mobile Next
From the post titled “Why Mobile First is not the Right Strategy!” on being practical: There are some brilliant mobile apps created by startups in recent years, the biggest challenge…
Deal Alert: Hyderabad Angels invests Rs.2 Cr in Whistle Talk
FirstPost.com Bangalore-based Whistle Talk, an online employee referral site, has raised close to $400,000 (about Rs 2 crore) from Hyderabad Angels. Whistle Talk uses social networking sites, such as Facebook,…