VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Businessworld has a profile of iLabs-backed TV9, the regional language news channel with an unusual positioning. For those who are wondering what TV9 is and why we are writing about…

Businessworld has an article capturing the opportunity (and action so far) in the setting up of duty-free shops at the newly privatized airports. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture…

Following Business Today, Businessworld has a detailed profile of aggressive textiles firm, Spentex Industries. The process of acquiring the largest capacity has also turned it into a highly leveraged one.…

Business Today has a profile of Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder of Naukri.com, post his company’s highly successful IPO. In March 1997, still operating out of his father’s garage and with his…

San Francisco Chronicle (via Venture Beat) reports on how The Founders Fund has formalized the process of a partial buyout of founders by VC investors through a new class of…

Check out this hilarious multimedia holiday card from Blueprint Ventures featuring a successful entrepreneur who thinks he has a good idea of what it takes to be a VC. Arun…

Businessworld has a Cover Story on the second wave of corporate hospital chains – with a special focus on the Max, Fortis and Wockhardt groups – who are aggressively expanding…

Catalyzed by the wave of acquistions, Business Today has a Cover Story on “India Inc.’s new Indian MNCs”. The article includes a profile of Spentex Industries which has grown rapidly…

The Indian School of Business in Hyderabad is organizing a 6-day Venture Capitalist Development Programme in March 2007 aimed at developing future venture capitalists. The programme is organised by the…

With the little island nation of Mauritius repeatedly being reported in the pink papers as “the largest investor in India” and so many PE and other investors “headquartered” in that…