VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Arun Natarajan is the Founder of Venture Intelligence India, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded companies worldwide. View sample issues of Venture Intelligence India newsletters and reports.

In this WahIndia video John Doerr of KPCB, says during his recent trip to India it was very clear that there is huge shortage of start-up capital in the country.…

VC Jeff Bussgang provides more support to the idea that letting founders take “some money off the table” would align their interests better with their VC backers. Entrepreneurs typically have…

Mercury News has an interesting interview with former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel who recently joined with two other PayPal co-founders to launch the $50 million Founders Fund to invest in…

Professor Aswath Damodaran of the Stern School of Business at New York University has an exhaustive web site on corporate finance related topics including valuation techniques. Interestingly, the web site…

Businessworld has an article on the trend of Indian SMEs preferring to list in exchanges at Dubai and Singapore rather than New York. Remember, not a single Indian company has…

Businessworld has an article on how the current stock market correction could create trouble for companies which have raised funds through foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) with a conversion price…

Business Standard has a profile of ICICI Ventures’ recent investments and new funds. Says Renuka Ramnath, managing director and CEO of ICICI Venture: “In the next two to three years…

Bloomberg columnist Mark Gilbert quotes Goldman Sachs’s annual report to provide a glimpse into “the future of investment banking”. The key messages are that investment banks need to take more…

Businessweek has an article on IIT-Bombay’s SINE incubator which helps students, professors, and alumni develop and commercialize their business ideas. Today there are 15 companies at SINE, all of them…