Vignette 2: Flextronics Does a Cisco Act
A key highlight of 2004 was the emergence of Singapore-based contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics as an active investor in – and acquirer of – Indian technology companies. The company moved…
Vignette 1: An Unusual Exit Story
Thanks to a strong interest among global staffing services firms to enter India, three HR and recruitment services companies provided exit routes to their private equity investors during 2004: Ma…
Vignettes from the Venture Intelligence India Roundup-Annual-2004 report
The Venture Intelligence India Roundup Annual 2004 report will be released next week. Here are a few highlights from the report: Venture Capital and Private Equity firms invested about US$…
Singapore’s new wave of investments in India
Businessworld magazine recently published a country report on Singapore including the renewed interest among Singaporean funds like Temasek and GIC as well as Singaporean companies like Ascendas (best known for…
“Champagne year for investment bankers”
Businessworld magazine has declared 2004 as a “Champagne year” for investment bankers thanks to the large number of IPOs and cross-border M&A activity. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of TSJ…
Telecom “Hot-Box” company Tejas Networks’ 3rd Round investment to last until exit: VC
The $15 million third round funding raised by Bangalore-based telecom equipment firm Tejas Network’s will be the last round before the company goes public or gets acquired, BusinessWeek’s newly launched…
“VC bubble forming in late-stage investments in China”
From a Businessweek interview with DCM-Doll Capital Management’s David Chao Q: Which sectors look attractive in China? A: There are a lot of semiconductor-design companies that work on next-generation chips.…
VC, Entrepreneur collaborate to start new blog
In an interesting experiment, Venky Ganesan, a Managing Director with Globespan Capital, and Narasimha Chari, Co-founder and Chief Architect at Tropos Networks, have come together to create a blog, VenChar,…
“All VC firms will have blogs”: VC Journal
I’m quite proud about spotting and writing one of the first articles (way back in early September 2004) on the trend of VCs taking to blogging. I wrote about it…
Gung ho about going global
Software and BPO services aren’t the only areas where Indian companies are competitive on a global scale. Private equity investors have realized this early and voted with their cheque books…