Why Warburg Pincus prefers PIPEs
Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting article explaning why Warburg Pincus is bullish on India. After the usual tale and numbers about the firm’s investment and hugely profitable partial exit from Bharti…
Lessons a VC learned from a good exit
Bill Burnham of Celsius Capital has a great post on the lessons he learned from investing in Datapower, a company that was recently acquired by IBM. The entrepreneur “sometimes” knows…
“The Infosys of auto components”
Business Today has a detailed profile of Baba Kalyani-led Bharat Forge, including nominating the firm as “the Infosys of the auto components sector”. I couldn’t get past a couple of…
Low cost airlines in China and other markets
Of course, everyone knows about the low-cost revolution in the US skies thanks to pioneers like Southwest Airlines and more recent entrants like JetBlue. But how about other countries? Did…
What motivates a corporate VC?
Until 2004, Intel Capital was probably the sole active corporate VC investing in the Indian technology sector. 2005 has seen the VC arms of Nokia, Cisco, IBM, TI and other…
Korea fines five US Private Equity firms
Korea Times reports that the Korean National Tax Service (NTS) has fined five foreign funds – The Carlyle Group, Lone Star, Goldman Sachs, AIG and Westbrook – a total of…
Why Bessemer cooled to tech investments in India
Anand Sridharan, Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners’ Mumbai office, has laid claim to the title of “India’s first VC Blogger”, by kicking-off “Seriously Clueless”, a new blog at http://radventure.blogspot.com. Anand…
Jaz Banga’s Feeva to benefit from San Francisco’s free Wi-Fi network
As you might know, the City of San Francisco has invited proposals to set up a community wireless broadband network. Bidders include investor and Internet God Google and ISP firm…
Silicon Valley Bank completes one year in India
The Santa Clara, CA-based Silicon Valley Bank celebrated the first anniversary of its Indian operations by throwing a great dinner and networking event at its Bangalore office. From Silicon Valley…
The opportunity in the pathology labs business
Businessworld has a roundup of the consolidation and rising investor interest in the pathology labs business. The Rs 2,000-crore industry in India is going through major change. When Businessworld looked…