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Seedfund Launches With Rs 45-60 Crore Corpus; Scouting For Early Stage Deals
By Sahad PV
Seedfund kicked off its operations formally today. The fund size is in the range of Rs 45-60 crore ($10-13 million), and they will invest an… Read more »
Renuka Ramnath Says Naukri At Current Prices Is Fairly Valued
By Sahad PV
There is no let up in the stock price rise in Info Edge (Naukri.com) even a week after the listing. The Info Edge stock rose 4 per cent toda… Read more »
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Travelguru Announces $15 Million Investment From Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital India
By Sahad PV
It’s official. Battery Ventures and Sequoia Capital India have invested $15 million in online travel company Travelguru. This is the second… Read more »
Seed Fund To Launch On November 30
By Sahad PV
For all those who are looking for seed money and angel capital, there is good news. Seed Fund – floated by Mahesh Murthy, Pravin Gandhi, Bha… Read more »
Dhruva Interactive To Raise $5 Million
By Sahad PV
Bangalore-based game development company Dhruva Interactive has been in the market to raise venture capital funds for sometime. It looks lik… Read more »
Cleartrip To Raise Second Round Venture Funding In Early 2007
By Sahad PV
Since MakeMyTrip has tied up its second round funding, and Travelguru is expected to sign up its Series B anytime soon, it’s expected that o… Read more »
ICICI Venture Sells 5% In Naukri To Fidelity For Rs 80 Crore; The Fund Returns 17.5X
By Sahad PV
ICICI Venture is believed to have sold about 5 per cent in the recently listed online classifieds company Info Edge (the owners of Naukri) f… Read more »
Travelguru May Get $15 Million From Battery Ventures, Sequoia
By Sahad PV
Online travel portal Travelguru may rake in $15 million in its second round of funding, reports The Economic Times. Battery Ventures will le… Read more »
Kahani World To Raise $30 Million In A Large VC Round
By Sahad PV
Animation company Kahani World is going in for a large round of funding. The company may raise about $30 million in this round which will be… Read more »
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Post-Listing: Bikhchandani Worth Rs 722 Crore, Hitesh Oberoi Rs 123 Crore; Kleiner Gets 3X
By Sahad PV
It was a terrific listing yesterday for Naukri.com. The stock touched a high of Rs 623 and closed at Rs 594. The share appreciated 85 per ce… Read more »
Sequoia Capital India To Invest In Geodesic?
By Sahad PV
Just saw it on the NDTV Profit ticker. The market buzz is that Sequoia Capital India may be picking up a stake in Geodesic Information Syste… Read more »
Rajesh Jog’s Waygate Capital Upbeat About Mobile Content Space
By Sahad PV
Waygate Capital says it’s looking to fund a mobile content/applications company. In an interview to Rediff last month (we stumbled upon it n… Read more »
Photosharing And Printing Site Picsquare Received $75,000 From Angel Investors
By Nikhil Pahwa
I think we missed this one earlier – Businessworld (subscription required) reports that Bangalore based Picsquare, started by two IIT Bombay… Read more »
Lehman Brothers In Talks With Cellebrum To Pick Up 20%
By Sahad PV
Cellebrum, a mobile content and applications company owned by Delhi-based MCorp Global group, may get investment from Lehman Brothers, repor… Read more »
Norwest, Nexus India Invest $15 Million In Mobile2win
By Sahad PV
We reported this first in July. The Economic Times has a follow up today. Mobile content and applications services provider Mobile2win has r… Read more »
Sequoia Capital India Invests $7 Million In Car Rental Firm Carzonrent
By Sahad PV
This is not exactly an investment in an online or a digital business, but they do have implications. Sequoia Capital India has invested $7 m… Read more »
TiE Canaan Business Plan Contest Open; Rush Your Entries By Nov 24
By Sahad PV
TiE New Delhi and venture capital fund Canaan Partners are launching a business plan competition. The contest, christened as Entrepreneurial… Read more »
“Shop18 To Become An Integrated E-commerce Play, On TV And Online”
By Sahad PV
Ravi C Adusumalli is a General Partner and the Head of India operations for Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) Partners, a leading ven… Read more »
Delhi Production House Miditech Plans Animation Studio; To Seek Private Equity Funding
By Sahad PV
Delhi-based production house Miditech is venturing into animation production, besides expanding its current content production efforts. The… Read more »
Sulekha.com receives $10mn Funding From Norwest Venture Partners
By Nikhil Pahwa
Norwest Venture Partners has invested $10 mn in one of the oldest Indian community portals – Sulekha.com (according to this release). The fu… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Confidence Is Key
By Nikhil Pahwa
TiEcon 2006 ended with the Valedictory Session featuring Dr. Subas Pani, Chief Secretary Govt. of Orissa, Naveen Patnaik CM of Orissa, Dr. V… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: VCs Are Not In The Business Of Getting Their Principal Back
By Nikhil Pahwa
The session featuring VCs was chaired by Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman IVCA and APVCA, and also featured Arati Prabhakar of US Venture Partne… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Value Creation, Value Sharing and Value Realization
By Nikhil Pahwa
The session on exits was rather disappointing; I had expected the panelists to dwell on details of negotiations while exiting. They didn’t.… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Make sure you don’t deviate from the path while scaling up
By Nikhil Pahwa
After the session on starting up operations, the next was on scaling up:
Atul Gabrani, Jt.MD, Tecpro Systems spoke about how clients were in… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: When You’ve Built For Someone Else, Why Not Build For Yourself?
By Nikhil Pahwa
The second session one the final day of TiEcon 2006 was a platform for entrepreneurs to tell their stories; Alok Mittal, Executive Director… Read more »
Upstream Ventures Launches $80 Million Pan Asia Early Stage Fund; To Invest In India Too
By Sahad PV
Here is a new fund that is looking at investing in early stage ventures in India, Singapore and China. Upstream Ventures, a Singapore-based… Read more »
Meravideo.com Close To Getting $1.5mn VC Funding?
By Nikhil Pahwa
Business Standard quotes Kanwaldeep S Kalsi, head Braingain Entertainment, the company that owns meravideo.com as saying that they’re close… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Actors Satish Kaushik And Anupam Kher Seek Funds For Their New Venture
By Nikhil Pahwa
During the last session on Day 2 of TiEcon 2006, actors Satish Kaushik and Anupam Kher announced a new joint venture Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: If You Take The Right Tide, All Boats Go To Sea
By Nikhil Pahwa
I thought Sandeep Singhal, MD Sequoia Capital India Advisors summed up his take quite well with that one line in the title of this post. The… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Mobisodes, Chhatisgarhi And Phat Chicks
By Nikhil Pahwa
Day 2: The session on Digital and Mobile Entertainment promised much with representatives from across the industry:
Mahendra Swarup, Chairma… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Announcements, Previews And Rumours
By Nikhil Pahwa
Some previews, announcements, and rumours from TiEcon 2006
- Bobby Bedi of Kaleidoscope Entertainment gave a preview of a 90 second movie c… Read more »
@TiEcom 2006: Opportunity In Aggregating The Long Tail Of Income
By Nikhil Pahwa
Vignettes from the Nasscom session on IT/ITES:
Arjun Malhotra, CEO Headstrong said that every time you do something, even if it something yo… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Don’t Kiss The First Pretty Lady You See
By Nikhil Pahwa
R.R. Shah, Member Secretary, Planning Commission started thing off eloquently in the session titled ‘The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’ with a q… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: The Biggest Challenge For Content Is – Who Will Pay For It?
By Nikhil Pahwa
On Day 2, the session on ‘Emerging Opportunities & Trends’ featured Arvind Singhal, Chairman of Technopak, Pramod Bhasin, President & CEO of… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Keynote Address By Vivek Ranadive Of TIBCO
By Nikhil Pahwa
The Keynote address on Day 2 at TiEcon 2006 was delivered by Vivek Ranadive, Chairman and Founder of TIBCO narrated his story in a wry self… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: “The Preference For IIT/IIM Is A Fallacy”
By Nikhil Pahwa
Nikhil Nath CEO of Knowcross Solutions, Sandeep Murthy, Partner, Sherpalo Ventures, Vineet Buch, Principal, Bluerun Ventures and Mohit Goyal… Read more »
@TiEcon 2006: Workshop For Entrepreneurs On Day 1
By Nikhil Pahwa
Session 1 on Day 1 at TiEcon 2006 focused on assisting entrepreneurs develop a business plan, and tips were on offer from VC’s, professional… Read more »
More Online DVD Rental Companies To Get Funded In India?
By Sahad PV
I was at TiECon India – which is being held in New Delhi – yesterday. (Nikhil Pahwa will be writing some session highlights soon). Interesti… Read more »
TiE-Canaan “Entrepreneurial Challenge” Invites Entries From Start-ups And Early Stage Businesses
By Sahad PV
Canaan Partners, TiE, French b-school INSEAD and Gurgaon-based KPO Evalueserve all have come together to launch an event that will select ea… Read more »
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