Deal Alert: Leander Sport raises Angel Financing
From Press Release Leander Sport Pvt. Ltd., a sports management and marketing company promoted by Indian tennis legend Leander Paes, has received financing from multiple angel investors. Investment bankersViedea Capital…
Deal Alert: IDFC PE invests Rs. 200-Cr in Deepak Cables
From Press Release: Deepak Cables (India) Limited, a Bangalore-based maker of aluminium conductors for Transmission & Distribution application, has raised Rs. 200 crores from IDFC Private Equity. With this investment,…
A New Indicator of US Unemployment
WSJ’s Life & Style section has come up with a new indicator for US unemployment: Beards. Facial hair is showing up on more former corporate types. It’s one of those…
The “Positive VC” PR
After Sequoia Capital’s much publicized “RIP Good Times” presentation, other VCs are now generating “good PR” for “rallying their troops”. Arvind Sodhani of Intel Capital in TheDeal.com: “What we have…
Dr. Doom predicts more gloom
NYU professor Nouriel Roubini who had accurately predicted the economic crisis as far back as 2006, predicts more gloom for the US economy in 2009 in this Fortune survey of…
Status check on Lehman and AIG asset sales
WSJ.com’s Deal Journal has an interesting post following up on the asset sales managed so far by Lehman and AIG. It isn’t working out exactly as the government may have…
The Private Equity View
Outlook Business has a set of invited articles by leading investors as part of its cover story on Private Equity. Some extracts: Akhil Gupta of Blackstone Also, since liquidity has…
TiE Entrepreneurial Summit 2008; Dec 16-18; Bangalore
TiE Entrepreneurial Summit 2008 (TES 2008) is Asia’s largest Summit that brings bringing together a galaxy of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, policy makers, academia, industry, thought leaders and other major stake…
Is development finally on the political agenda?
Political analyst Prem Shankar Jha writes in the Economic Times that the results of the recent state elections indicate that Indian voters are finally attaching a significant weightage to development-related…
JiGrahak named among WEF’s Technology Pioneers
Bangalore-based mobile payments company JiGrahak Mobility Solutions has been selected as one of the 34 “Technology Pioneers” for 2009 by the World Economic Forum. The WEF names such companies from…