VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

In case you just landed back from Mars, real estate in India is booming. Businessworld has a cover story on how companies are latching on to the boom. Indian companies,…

Business Today has a special report on the power sector. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence India, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded companies worldwide.…

On the 25th anniversary of the company’s founding, Business Today has an article on 25 little-known facts about Infosys. On July 2, 2006, Infosys technologies will turn 25. That’s not…

Business Today has a Cover Story on how India’s tech billionaires – including Azim Premji, Nandan Nilekani, Shiv Nadar and Ramalinga Raju – are investing their personal money. Arun Natarajan…

For every reasonably famous (as against “successful”) online services business model in the US, there is a copycat being created – and venture capital funded – in China. I’m however…

From the Press Release: The University Venture Fund (UVF) announced today it has achieved a final closing of $18 million in funding, an unprecedented amount of capital for a student-run…

KPCB’s John Doerr interviews Thomas Friedman (of “The World is Flat” fame) on the Energy Crisis, its impact and potential solutions. Quite riveting stuff. Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky Arun Natarajan…

Stanford’s Rafiq Dossani and TiE-SV’s Asawari Desai have published a research report titled “Accessing Early-Stage Risk Capital in India”that aims to identify causes and recommend improvements for the lack of…

So far, Vinod Khosla has done a lot of deep thinking and powerful talking about using Ethanol to “replace all our (America’s) oil imports and become the centre of our…

When it comes to clarity of positioning to entrepreneurs, true early-stage firms in India (ie, Rs. Lakhs rather than $ Million investors) would do well to look at the web…