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Businessworld has a profile of Rajiv Lall, the newly appointed CEO of Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) and former Managing Director at Warburg Pincus. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of…

Chryscapital, CitiGroup and FMO-Netherlands have invested into this Chennai-based listed truck financing firm. Why? Businessworld explains in a recent article: The Shriram group has three truck finance companies – Shriram…

SiliconValleyWatcher conducted a short interview with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of Sand Hill Group, on the sidelines of Software 2005, Sand Hill’s annual enterprise software conference: The software-as-a-service sessions have been…

I have blogged earlier about the good PR that Silicon Valley Bank’s Bangalore office is getting in the media. Well, here’s more PR for the office, this time in the…

From a Red Herring article: Clearstone (Venture Partners) has tapped into the Indian entrepreneur community via venture partner Vish Mishra and TiE, a worldwide entrepreneurship network with a mostly Indian…

A new regulation prohibiting the creation of offshore companies “is bringing foreign private equity investments in China to a halt”, says a news item in Private Equity Week: VCs came…

Sramana Mitra is yet another new blogger that I intend to track. Here’s an extract from her bio: Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon…

H1-B visa caps preventing you from shipping software engineers to the US? No problem. Just buy a cruise ship and park it close to a major US port and have…

Businesweek’s Deal Flow blog as a profile of these two companies as part of an article on “Stealth Deals of Q1” * BA Systems — Just four months old, this…

According to BusinessWeek’s Deal Flow blog, Michael Moritz, a general partner at VC firm Sequoia Capital and an early investor in Google, Yahoo! and Cisco, while speaking at the VentureOne…