“The Brain of an Indian VC”
Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal has an interesting post on the topic: Being a VC in an emerging markets like India is like being a VIP. You are at a very…
VC Interview: Venetia Kontogouris of Trident Capital
Venture Intelligence recently spoke with Venetia Kontogouris, Managing Director of Trident Capital. The US-based VC firm has invested into six companies with significant operations in India including Elucido, Microland, MingleBox,…
Interview with Mintoo Bhandari of Apollo
Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Mintoo Bhandari who heads global PE firm Apollo’s India subsidiary in Mumbai. Apollo recently consummated its first PE investment in India – a $100 million…
PE firms invest $2-B in Indian Cos. in Q1 ’10
Private Equity firms invested about US$2,000 million across 56 deals during the quarter ended March 2010, according to a study by Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a research service focused on Private…
“BFSI presents great entry point for consumer, infra sectors”: PE Investors
Microfinance, Infrastructure Finance and service providers to financial services firms, are among the favourite sectors of PE & VC investors within the industry, a survey by research firm Venture Intelligence…
Micromax who?
Did you know that Micromax is the third-largest GSM mobile phone vendor in India with a 6% market share (after Nokia (62%) and Samsung (8%))? Neither did I. In fact,…
Entrepreneurs have long memories…
Sample this from Sanjay Chandra, MD of real estate firm Unitech, in a Business Today article on his lessons from the 2008-09 crisis. …the media really worsened the situation. The…
The Next Big Thing after Telecom…
…is Microfinance, points out Vijay Mahajan, founder of Basix tracing the evolution of the sector in an article for Business Today. With the exception of the mobile telecom, perhaps no…
E&Y, ALMT Legal, Desai & Diwanji top Venture Intelligence League Tables for 2009
ALMT Legal and Desai & Diwanji topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables as the Most Active Legal Advisors for Private Equity and M&A deals respectively in 2009. Ernst & Young…
The mess at Argentum Motoros
Forbes India has an article on how the plans of Ajay Singh-, BVR Subbu- and Ashish Deora-founded Argentum, which had acquired the bankrupt Daewoo Motor’s plant in Haryana to produce…