VENTURE INTELLIGENCE BLOG

This time courtersy Business 2.0: Google’s outsize success fixed a giant halo above Shriram’s 48-year-old head. And it helped gain him entrée into two of the most-hyped startups of the…

From McKinsey Quarterly: A recent McKinsey study of China’s software sector, however, shows that it will be many years before the country poses a threat to its continental rival in…

From a Reuters report: Private-equity firm GW Capital financed a Rs 45 crore deal last month to merge two south Indian department store chains, Trinethra and Fabmall, aiming to grow…

From New York Times : Partners at two prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms deceived four of the five founders of a start-up company, withholding critical information and thereby cheating…

One of the first software products company in India, Ramco Systems, has been struggling to make a mark. While the company’s ambitious ERP software Marshall failed, Ramco’s VirtualWorks, a platform…

After IT, BPO, equity research and of course, editorial services, now it is the turn of advertising work to go offshore from the US to India. Bannerjee Partners has launched…

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…

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…

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$…

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…