VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Businessworld has a profile of Pune-based Praj Industries, a listed Ethanol technology company in which Vinod Khosla has picked up a 10% stake. Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture…

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…