VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

I just read an interesting 2002 profile of US-based hedge fund Galleon Group and its Sri Lankan-born founder, Raj Rajaratnam, in the Financial Times. (Galleon has begun to invest in…

Economic Times has a profile of Nitish Mittersain, Founder & CEO of Mobile VAS firm Nazara Technologies. The first area that the company forayed into was online gaming, through a…

Economic Times had an article on the future of independent software testing vendors in the wake of EDS’ acquisition of RelQ. (Ranga Reddy, CEO of Maveric Systems) says: “That is…

Businessworld has an article on how The Sona Group is using a round of PE financing from JM Financial to accelerate its growth – which had slowed down a bit…

Kamla Bhatt has an interesting podcast with IDG Ventures India’s Sudhir Sethi which has recently announced its first investment in the country. The interview covers the fund’s background, focus areas…

The Deal Blogs has an article providing a listing of Khosla Ventures’ portfolio companies based on a recent speech by VK. Most of the companies are based around the general…

Deepak Thomas and Vineet Buch have published a case study on YouTube. The reasons behind Google’s acquisition seem quite intuitive. YouTube falls in line with Google’s strategy of converting user…

Economic Times has an article on how corporate law firms are benefiting from the boom in PE and M&A deals. Industry observers believe that the revenues at India’s leading law…

Speaking at Internet & Mobile Connect, Probir Roy, Co-founder & Director of Paymate, described how his company went about raising venture capital and the challenges during the process. Saying that…

Speaking at Internet & Mobile Connect, Alok Mittal, Executive Director of Canaan Partners, emphasized the need for Mobile VAS companies to “own the customer” as well as directly create demand…