AZB retains top ranking among Legal Advisors to Private Equity Transactions in 2014
AZB & Partners retained its status – for the fifth consecutive year – as the Most Active Legal Advisor for Private Equity transactions during 2014. According to the Venture Intelligence…
Unitus Capital retains status as Most Active Financial Advisor for Private Equity Transactions in 2014
Ernst & Young retains Most Active Transaction Advisor status inclusive of due diligence, other services Unitus Capital retained the top position of the Venture Intelligence League Table for Most Active…
“Tutors are the True Heroes of the Indian Education System”
Interesting article in Forbes India by Meeta Sengupta: If there is one system that is working to further rigour, accuracy and excellence (of sorts), it is the tutoring ecosystem…it is…
YoCAPTCHA – Yet another founder breakup – but thankfully managed success despite – story
From The Mint profile: In June 2012, a clutch of investors—part of the Mumbai Angel Network—approached Gupta. However, the presence of a third dormant partner—Agarwal—remained a concern. Agarwal, who had…
Is India the Next China – In Internet & Mobile investing terms?
Here’s an extract from the Rise Capital Blog: … the differences between China and India matter just as much as the similarities. We believe that there will be quite a…
What the Flipkart & Snapdeal fairy tales of 2014 mean for Entrepreneurship in India
By Arun Natarajan An abridged version of this article appeared in the Business Line dated Jan 13, 2015 Home grown E-Commerce leaders Flipkart and Snapdeal between them raised almost $3…
Deal Alert: Mobile SDK maker AppVirality raises $465-K from IIG, TNN Capital, angels
Mobile app development software maker AppVirality has raised $465,000 in seed funding from India Internet Group, TNN Capital and other investors including Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google India; Mike…
Unraveling Oravel’s founder
The Mint has a detailed profile of the founder of Venture Capital-backed budget hotels aggregator Oravel (now, OyoRooms) titled “Will the real Ritesh Agarwal please stand up?”. The piece makes…
Deal Alert: Snapdeal founders invest in apparel e-tailer Bewakoof.com
Snapdeal founders, Rohit Bansal and Kunal Bahl have made an investment in Mumbai-based Bewakoof Brands Private Limited, the company behind online apparel portal Bewakoof.com. Source: Times of India Venture Intelligence…
Deal Alert: Peer to peer lender Faircent.com raises funding from MFI execs
Gurgaon – based peer- to-peer lending pioneer Faircent.com has raised capital at an enterprise valuation of $4 million from Devesh Sachdev and Ashish Tiwari, promoters of Fusion Microfinance Pvt Ltd.…