What’s Next for Fintech?
Data from the Venture Intelligence Venture Capital Deals Database shows that, even in 2015, when E-Commerce/Online Retail was ruling the roost (grabbing over 45% of the investments), Fintech investments had…
How to Trigger Explosion of the Angel Investment Market in India? Ask for Less!
Prajakt Raut of Applyfi feels more startups need to ask for INR 50 lakh cheques versus wasting precious time trying to raise INR 3 Cr in their first angel round.…
The Colorful Story of Div Turakhia & the Media.Net Exit
On August 23, Dubai and New York-based ad-tech firm Media.net announced its acquisition by Chinese Consortium led by Zhiyong Zhang, the chairman of Beijing Miteno Communication Technology Co. Ltd, in…
Government Standing Up to Foster Startups: Archana Khosla, Vertices Partners
“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow” ― Shannon L. Alder Gone are the days of uncertainty and incertitude…
How the fintech sector is gearing up for digital disruption: Article by Vinayak Burman, Vertices Partners
“By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your…
RBI Proposes To Expand The Investment Arms For FPIs: Article by Archana Khosla of Vertices Partners
Following the Union Budget 2016-17, RBI plans to expand the investment ambit for FPIs by allowing them to put capital in unlisted debt securities as well as in securitized debt…
What VCs Do; How Long They Work; On What; etc
Microsoft Ventures head Mukund Mohan has posted some extracts from an US academic paper on “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?“. Some highlights: VC-backed Cos Dominate the IPO Scene Roughly…
E-Commerce Malaise: Is GMV or Valuation Expectation the Real Villain?
The Lessons E-Commerce Entrepreneurs & Investors Should Learn from their Microfinance Peers In an article for Economic Times, Private Equity investor Vivek Singla points why blaming the measurement parameter Gross…
Proposed norms for P2P lending: A setback for cash-poor but promising startups? Article by Archana Khosla of Vertices Partners
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein True to what Einstein said, comes the…
SP Apparels: PE Backed IPO Analysis
Login into the Venture Intelligence Deal Database and click on the below links to view transaction and other details: NYLIM Jacob Ballas Investment in SP Apparels NYLIM Jacob Ballas Part…