Profile of Just Dial founder
The Mint has a profile of Just Dial’s Founder & MD V.S.S. Mani. Just Dial, which is backed by SAIF, provides commercial information over telephone and the Internet. The original…
BS interview with Actis’ JM Trivedi
Business Standard has an interview with JM Trivedi, the new head of Actis’ Indian operations. An buyout deals we acquire non-core assets from MNCs/large corporate groups or from families which…
“PE deal sizes set to grow”: Goldman Sachs India CEO
Economic Times has an interview with L. Brooks Entwistle, Head of Goldman Sachs India. So far, private equity deals have been small in nature, but we see larger transactions on…
Dotcom IPOs are back – on the AIM that is
PEHub and VentureBeat have reported how loss-making video search web site Blinkx has raised $50 million via an IPO on the London AIM exchange. PEHub also points to an article…
13-year-old CEO steals show at TiECon’07
VentureBeat has an interesting video interview with the 13-year old Anshul Samar, Founder and CEO of Elementeo, at this year’s TiECon. Elementeo has developed a “combat” card game which aims…
Adveq to launch Asia-focused Fund of Funds in ’08
AltAssets has an interview with André P Jaeggi, Managing Director of Adveq, a Switzerland-based Fund-of-Funds, in which he talks about the firm’s increasing focus on Asia. While we have always…
Why doing R&D in Bangalore is becoming dumb and dumber
At least for start-ups – including VC-backed ones. For over a year now, entrepreneur friends who are doing R&D for their product companies out of Bangalore have been pointing out…
“Emerging markets PE to fetch 5.4% higher returns over US buyouts”: LP Survey
The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association has released the exectuive summary of its 2007 Survey of Limited Partner Interest. Some highlights of the survey’s findings: • 52% of LPs said…
Air Deccan CEO interview to The Mint
The Mint has an interview with Air Deccan’s Founder & CEO, Captain G.R. Gopinath, on his company’s plans to raise a large amount of Private Equity funding at a time…