VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Businessworld has a cover story on the boom in the mobile data services sector and its beneficiaries. The Opportunities As these three main protagonists — media, mobile and aggregators —…

Businessworld has an article examining the strengths and weaknesses of Indian animation – long touted as the “next big outsourcing story” – and concludes that the sector seems to have…

Entrepreneur & CEO Matt Blumberg has list of characteristics that a great VC needs to exhibit. – Major pattern recognition — “I’ve seen this movie before, and I know how…

Knowekdge@Wharton has published the proceeds of a a roundtable discussion between four leading limited partners – Kristin Gilbertson of the University of Pennsylvania, Sandra Pajarola of Partners Group, Cory Pulfrey…

Knowledge@Wharton has an article based on a panel discussion on private equity investing in India and China titled “Driving Returns: Value Added Investing.” Mukund Krishnaswami, managing director of Krilacon Group,…

Knowledge@Wharton has published the second part of its interview with Wipro’s Azim Premji. Aron: You already have a strong footprint in IT design, development, maintenance and operations. Now, as you…

Anand Sridharan of Bessemer Venture Partners has a blog post on why his firm (along with New Vernon Private Equity)has invested into Motilal Oswal Financial Services, a leading Indian stockbroking…

Business Today has a detailed article examining whether the boom in Indian real estate prices is sustainable. Points on the “Yes” side: To answer in a word, demand. Underlying it,…

Business Today has an article profiling the Hyderabad-based GMR and GVK business groups (both named after their founders Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao and Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy respectively) which have recently…

Pvt equity giants jostle for slice of India pieEconomic Times – Apr 19, 2006 “Clearly, the growth investments will make up the volume, but buyout deals will continue to tilt…