PE Investors offload shares worth $2.5 B in Q1’16 – Up 129% YoY
Private Equity exits in India for Q1 2016 amounted to $2.5 billion (including value of stock swap transactions) an increase of 129% compared to $1.94 billion in the Q1 2015,…
The 10 Worst VC Board Members
From a Tweet by Bessemer Ventures: Creative Reminiscent of Bessemer’s famous Anti-Portfolio. Venture Intelligence is India’s longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity,…
Indian Startup Ecosystem attacked by “Integrity Cancer”: Kashyap Deorah
Kashyap Deorah, author of “The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups” and the former President of the Future Group’s e-commerce venture Futurebazaar.com, has a LinkedIn post describing…
Manish Sabharwal @ Venture Intelligence APEX’16 PE-VC Summit
Manish Sabharwal, Co-Founder of leading staffing services company Teamlease, that pulled off a successful IPO in the choppy environment of early 2016, weighed in with typical flourish on various issues…
B2B Services, EdTech and IT Product Cos witness return of interest even as overall Venture Capital investments dip 32% in Jan-Mar’16
Venture Capital firms invested $242 million over 85 deals in India during the three months ending Mar 2016, data from the Venture Intelligence VC Deals Database shows. The investment activity…
Why, Despite Reporting Record Investment Figures, Private Equity in India Needs Structural Changes
Even though Private Equity investment figures in 2015 surpassed the previous high (of 2007), the expert panel at the Venture Intelligence APEX’16 PE-VC Summit felt the PE segment still faces…
Tiger Global Vs Ratan Tata: Who Will Indian VCs Follow?
As Tiger Global and various international investors step on the brake at their investment vehicles, there is one class of investor – Family Offices – that is stepping on the…
Write Downs to Down Rounds to IIT Buddies & the Cricket Club of India Bar – There are Many More Scenes Left in The Great Indian E-Commerce Drama
Frankie Brown of Investec has an interesting take on Indian E-Commerce in Economic Times. Extracts: The funding slowdown has revealed as much about the Indian venture capital market as the…
Is CaratLane over valued?
Economic Times has an article on e-jeweler CaratLane’s as part of which it uses Venture Intelligence’s data to check on the valuation of the company and its peers. Easily the…
Top Desi VCs in Silicon Valley
Mint has extracted a list of 14 VCs of Indian origin in the US who made it to CB Insights’ Top 100 VC. There are 5 more desi names on…