Deal Analysis: HSBC’s acquisition of retail broking firm IL&FS Investsmart
By Girirajan. M & Pawan Kumar. R; Venture Intelligence Deal Summary. HSBC has entered into agreements to acquire stakes held by Promoters – E*Trade (43.85%) and IL&FS (29.36%) – in…
“Cold chains becoming a hot opportunity”
Business Today has an article on how a slew of companies are setting up cold chain infrastructure across India service the needs of modern retailers. The business rationale for entering…
The Business & Economics of the IPL
Business Today cover story on the business of the highly popular Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament which now has Private Equity investors interested. Arun Natarajan is the Founder &…
Interview with Squadron Capital CEO
AltAssets has an interesting interview with David G Pierce, CEO of Asia-focused Private Equity Fund of Funds Squadron Capital.On the firm’s due diligence process: The private equity industry in the…
Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners on Internet cos.
Outlook Business has an interview with Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners India, who earlier founded auctions web site Baazee.com, on investments in Internet-based services. If you just go through the…
“Water is a bigger priority than global warming”
At the recent Top Ten Tech Trends event organized by the US-based Churchill Club, Joe Schoendorf, Partner at Accel Partners and Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures made the following interesting…
The Credit Crisis & Ways of the Market Explained
Comics John Bird and John Fortune have a hilarious video that explains how “markets work” and why it is only correct for regulators to bail out investment banks whose actions…
“We are keen to invest in IT Products and Media cos.” – Interview with Niren Shah of Norwest
N. Sriram of Venture Intelligence recently spoke to Niren Shah, Managing Director of Norwest Venture Partners, who heads the Silicon Valley firm’s India investments out of Mumbai. Niren was earlier…
Doing Due Diligence on VCs
These days, there is a lot of good advice online – see examples here and here – on raising Venture Capital in the Indian context. A lot of knowledgeable persons…
Lesson from the PurpleYogi
I just read VC Bill Burnham’s post on the lessons he learnt from his investment in Stratify. An Internet-era company that was originally founded as PurpleYogi, the company has several…