Dela Alert: Meena & K Ganesh launch online furniture marketplace HomeLane
Serial entrepreneur-couple K Ganesh and Meena have acquired Bangalore-based offline design firm Bello Interiors Pvt Ltd and rebranded it as HomeLane, an online marketplace for fixed furniture. The husband-wife duo…
Fund Alert: Fmr IEP executives float new PE firm Carpediem Capital
Former India Equity Partners (IEP) professionals have launched a new India-focused PE firm Carpediem Capital. Arvind Nair (formerly Operating Partner at IEP) is the Chairman of the new firm while…
Fund Alert: Appurify founder Rahul Jain to raise $50-M fund
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rahul Jain, who co-founded app testing start-up Appurify that was recently acquired by Google, plans to raise $50 million to invest in Indian start-ups. The fund would…
Why PE investors should stick to minority investments in Restaurants
From an Economic Times article titledd “Do PE firms make bad chefs?” citing the problems at Adiga’s, Sagar Ratna and Nirula’s. Prudent investment metrics back PE’s thinking in grabbing pieces…
Roundup on Crowd Funding
The Economic Times recently did a full page roundup. Online version available here Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity,…
Deal Alert: Price comparison service PriceBag.com raises $2-M
Gurgaon-based Accentium Web, founded by Vivek Pahwa, which operates the product discovery and price comparison portal PriceBag.com, has raised $2 million in angel funding. The funds will primarily be used…
Deal Alert: SRI Capital invests in US-based machine data analytics firm Glassbeam
Santa Clara, CA (USA)-based machine data analytics company Glassbeam, Inc. has received $2 million in additional funding from investors including SRI Capital. SRI capital founder Sashi Reddy has joined the…
Deal Alert: 8 start-ups join Pitney Bowes accelerator program
Pitney Bowes has announced 8 startups that will join Pitney Bowes Accelerator program in India. The 8 startups are: RetailNav, a solution for retail shopping with unique in-store location-based analytics.…
Deal Alert: Nexus, Sequoia invest $3-M in location based food ordering app maker TinyOwl
Mumbai-based start-up TinyOwl Technology Pvt Ltd, which offers location-based mobile application for ordering food, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital India and Nexus Ventures. The…
Is the 7-year Startup Boom-and-Bust Cycle Repeating Itself?
By Arun Natarajan At the dawn of 2014, ad industry executive Ramesh Srivats had jokingly predicted: Flipkart will get a few hundred million dollars from VCs in March, July, and…