VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

Within the resurgent Indian manufacturing industry, PE firms have paid special attention to sugar companies. Businessworld has a profile of this sector and its top players. Arun Natarajan is the…

Extract from our latest quarterly press release: Chennai, India: Private Equity and Venture Capital firms invested about US$1.4 billion in 69 Indian companies during the quarter ended March 2006, according…

Following a new study by the India Semiconductor Association, the industry is getting a lot of buzz in the media including a cover story (no less!) in Businessworld and a…

Forbes has a profile of New Delhi-based real estate developers DLF Group and its Chairman, K.P. Singh. Today he presides over closely held DLF group, India’s largest real estate developer…

Some Seed Funds and entrepreneurs like to use convertible notes, which pegs the valuation of the seed investment to that of the first round (which is typically expected to happen…

Knowledge@Wharton has an interview with Wipro’s Azim Premji. It’s always an issue to differentiate Wipro and get closer to target companies like IBM and Accenture rather than companies like Infosys…

Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley is concerned that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act is “ensuring the demise of the leadership of U.S. capital markets”. New up and coming companies outside the U.S. are…

Some recent articles in the press featuring Venture Intelligence India:The Great Indian Tech SaleFinancial Express – April 8, 2006 Induslogic Gets $12.5MRed Herring – Mar 5, 2006 Pvt equity firms…

Investors in Indian dating/matrimonial web sites are doomed. For Google, after taking on Yahoo Finance, has now launched Google Romance, “a place where you can post all types of romantic…

Given that Ryan Air, according to this Business 2.0 article, is already predicting more than half of its passengers will fly free by the end of the decade, we can…