Deal Alert: Bessemer to lead $10-M round for TaxiForSure
Bangalore-based cab aggregator service TaxiForSure is raising $10 million in investments led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Blume Ventures also participated in the latest…
Deal Alert: Unitus Seed Fund invests in dental chain Smile Merchants
Seed-stage impact investor Unitus Seed Fund has led an equity investment in Smile Merchants, a chain of dental clinics focused on providing affordable dental care services. A brand of Free3…
Legal Corner by Trilegal: India’s New M&A Guidelines Dampen Hopes of Market Consolidation
The guidelines for telecom mergers and acquisitions are being touted as a harbinger of market consolidation in India. But a closer reading suggests they leave a lot to be desired.…
Deal Alert: Ah! Ventures, VentureNursery Angels, Calcutta Angels invest in crowdfunding service Catapooolt
ah! Angels,Calcutta Angels, VentureNursery Angels and some leading industry professionals have made a seed investment in crowdfunding and community engagement platform Catapoolt. CLUB ah!, helped facilitate this deal between Calcutta…
Sun keeps media in the dark on the Ranbaxy deal
“Sun Pharma bought Ranbaxy for $4 Billion? Holy Shit!” It was clear that this Private Equity fund manager hadn’t heard of the deal as of 9.30 am on Monday, April…
Why LPs don’t care about lowering the 2-and-20 Private Equity Fund Fee Structure
Private Equity International (PEI) has used Bain Capital’s new fund raising to provide an interesting take on why the decades old Private Equity fund fee structure of “2 and 20”…
Will Dr.Rajan wake up to the Exodus of SaaS Startups?
As an email addict, I’m only happy to have my credit card get charged automatically by Google (for extra storage) and Boomerang (a cute little Gmail management tool) – both…
Deal Alert: ElasticBox Secures $9M In Funding led by Nexus Venture Partners
ElasticBox, the company that enables developers and enterprises to create, deploy and manage applications quickly and easily, is announcing that it has closed a nine million dollar Series A funding…
External environmental challenges faced by startups in India
Entrepreneurs like Sanjiv Bikhchandani of Naukri, Murugavel Janakiraman of Matrimony, the Bansals of Flipkart; VSS Mani of Justdial, etc. deserve massive admiration. What they have achieved is more like conquering…
Infra sector investments by SWFs & Pensions; IT deals buoy Q1’14 PE investments to $2.3 B
Deal Value almost doubles compared to year ago; Flat compared to Oct-Dec’13 quarter Private Equity firms invested about $2,273 million across 89 deals during the quarter ended March 2014, according…