Public Markets Watch: Jul-Sep 2012
From the latest Venture Intelligence quarterly PE Roundup report: The leading Indian stock market indices – the BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty – closed Q3 2012 up almost 8%, bettered…
Deal Alert: Fulcrum Venture India ‘exits Casa Grande with 10x net multiple’
From the Press Release: Fulcrum Venture India, a highly successful early stage venture capital investor started in 2000 by Krishna Ramanathan as a proprietary fund, today announced its exit from…
Deal Alert: Vyome Biosciences Raises Series A Financing
From the Press Release: Vyome Biosciences Private Limited, an innovation driven dermatology company focused on developing novel and innovative treatments for common skin conditions such as dandruff, acne, pigmentation disorders…
“Avoid Mind Blocks & Artificial Boundaries” – Pandia Rajan & Latha Rajan of Ma Foi
Cross Posted from the Venture Intelligence Entrevista blog: Latha Rajan & K. Pandia Rajan of Ma Foi ( Bios) In conversation with K. Satyanarayan, Co-founder of regional language publishing firm…
New Age Real Estate Brokers
From Business Today …lately a new breed of brokers has emerged, who want to break out of this image. “The first question customers ask is: ‘Why should I trust you’,”…
Profile of broadband services Tikona
From Business Today: Analysts say Bajpai has been lucky to get 4G spectrum dirt cheap compared to rivals such as Reliance Infotel, which paid $2.7 billion for its pan-India licence.…
Profile of local TV ads firm Amagi
From Businessworld Amagi’s key message was to explain the benefits of local advertising to television channels and cable and DTH operators. In June 2008, the trio purchased a set-top box…
PaaSage from Cuddalore to California: The OrangeScape Story
Rediff.com has an interesting profile of the Chennai-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) software product firm and its founder Suresh Sambandam (who grew up in the small Tamilnadu town of…
Corporate Japan’s Craving For Indian Assets
(Click on the image for a larger view) Note: The above data from the Venture Intelligence M&A Deal database includes only majority control transactions and does not include minority investments…
Gloom Amidst the Boom: Why Solar Panel Cos are Wilting
From a Business Today article: Though more and more solar energy is being produced in India – installed capacity rising exponentially from just 20 megawatts (MW) in 2009 to 980…