VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

In the wake of the YouTube acquisition, Economic Times has a feature on Indian online social networking startups and their prospects. Sources say six other start-ups are looking to join…

Business Today has an article on online real estate-focused classified sites like 99acres, magicbricks, indiaproperties, etc. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence, which tracks private equity and venture…

Businessworld has a profile of buy-and-turnaround specialist Pawan Ruia. A merchant banker by profession (he is a chartered accountant and has also studied cost accountancy, company secretaryship and law), he…

Knowledge@Wharton reports on an academic study “Financing Firms in India”. The study…challenges the conventional wisdom among academics and public policy experts that corruption automatically impedes economic advancement of developing countries,…

Businessworld has a cover story based on a survey of 5,485 young people surveyed across 15 Indian cities such as Kochi, Jaipur or Bangalore. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of…

Businessworld has a short profile of NTrust, a provider of outsourcing services to US Real Estate companies. NTrust, floated in 2002, has built a $12 million business in the lease…

Businessworld has an article on the growth of the aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business in India. There are about 300-odd third-party MRO units worldwide, of which more than…

Businessworld has an article on why the Warburg Pincus-backed CD/DVD maker, Moser Baer, is diversifying into the solar cells business. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence, which tracks…

Venture Capitalist Bill Burnham recently argued that it would be futile for start-ups to try and compete with Google, Yahoo and MSN (“GYM”) in the core Internet search space. Any…

Business Today has a short profile of Chennai-based Rudra Technologies, a company that has come up with an innovative anti-virus software. Imagine a virus that locks up the files on…