Microfinance: The Road Ahead
Vineet Rai of social VC firm Aavishkaar makes several interesting points as part of a Business Today roundtable on the sector. One tipping point was in 2004-05 when the partnership…
Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures invests in cloud computing firm Arayaka Networks’ $14-M first round
Edited excerpts from the press release: Aryaka Networks, a provider of cloud-based application acceleration and WAN optimization solution, has raised $14 million in Series A funding from Trinity Ventures, Mohr…
Forbest India profile of Tech Support BPO iYogi
Forbes India has a profile of the VC-backed remote tech support company. ..a small but growing number of Americans like Smith are prepared to bypass US companies and directly hire…
Making Money in the Alternative Energy Market
Extract from our partner event Press Release): The key to investing in the alternative energy market is getting in quickly, identifying where the best yields can come from and securing…
Deal Alert: Paracor India exits PL Shipping & Logistics via strategic sale
Paracor India Investments, Mauritius has sold its stake in PL Shipping & Logistics via a strategic sale to Switzerland-based M+R Spedag Group. Paracor had a controlling stake in PL Shipping…
M&A Then and Now: What’s Changed
Extract from an article in Economic Times by RPG Group’s Harsh Goenka. Fast forward to the current era. We have learnt a lot over the decades and governed by our…
“Our India deal pipeline is getting stronger” – Interview with Christopher Nicholas of JP Morgan
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Christopher Nicholas, Head of JP Morgan’s Global Special Opportunities Group, the firm’s principal investment unit. Nicholas has spent 22 out of his 27 years of…
SKS Microfinance: The Private Equity Story
Between March 2006 and Nov 2008, SKS Microfinance received investments of $111 million from Private Equity – the largest by any company in this sector. PE investors in the company…
Is Vedanta’s Cairn acquisition a good one?
Gautam Chhabria has an interesting comment in reply to Menaka Doshi’s post on whether Vendata’s acquisition of Cairn India would work given that it does not fit Vendata’s “core competence”.…
“Holiday in India and pick up a degree too”
From the Business Today article Meet the brain behind Koenig: Rohit Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, who is on his way to becoming a successful first-mover in what is being broadly…