VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and the EVCA Institute (part of European Venture Capital Association) are organizing a workshop titled “Foundation Course in Private Equity & Venture Capital” on April…

T&I’s Jerry Borrell has an interesting interview with Jay Jegannathan, Managing Director of Evolvence India Fund, the first Private Equity Fund of Funds focused exclusively on the Indian market. Some…

Business Today has an article on the various players who are betting that electric scooters will take off in the Indian market. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of…

Business Today has a cover story on how select markets in the country are witnessing a marked correction. Across the country there are investors, financiers and developers who’ve been caught…

Business Today has an article on how competition – unfair or otherwise – from China is affecting various segments of Indian industry. Sanjay Labroo, Managing Director, Asahi India Glass, and…

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…