VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Investors in hedge funds believe the industry will see even bigger withdrawals this year than 2008, according to new survey by Deutsche Bank. As if last year’s carnage wasn’t enough,…

At Venture Intelligence’s Annual Private Equity conference in February, a leading PE fund manager remarked how investors were now forced to pay more heed to currency movements than their portfolio…

Business Standard has profiles of new entrants in its latest BS 1000 listing of companies. The new entrants include OnMobile Global, Page Industries, Indage Vintners, Educomp, Shriram EPC, Temptation Foods…

Kathleen Hughes, a manager of money market funds at JPMorgan Asset Management, has an interesting description for the change in risk appetite of investors: “Risk appetite leaves on a horse…

Business Today’s has come out with the latest update to its annual listing of “Hottest Startups in India”. The list includes VC-backed companies like Inbiopro (backed by Accel India), Carnation…

Business Today has an article on how healthcare firms are planning to accelerate their growth plans – never mind the recession. “A slowdown is the best time for health care…

Contentsutra has an interesting package on the salary cuts at Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd (BCCL), India’s richest media company that publishes The Times of India and The Economic Times.…

Business Today has a cover story profiling publicly-listed companies that are doing fine despite the economic recession. The listing includes some large cap companies like Bharti Airtel, Hero Honda and…

Businessworld has an article on a new crop of drug discovery companies – most of whom are Private Equity-backed – that are promising to represent the version 2.0 of the…

MediaNama has an interview with B2B Internet firm IndiaMart’s CEO Dinesh Agarwal. I think the latter part of the upturn affected us more than the downturn. We were highly cashflow…