Investments: $14.64 million*
Deals: 7
Top Deal
Bangalore-based Ver se Innovation, a mobile classifieds company incubated by OnMobile Global, raised $4.46 million (Rs 20 crore) from Matrix Partners India – press release here. OnMobile chairman and CEO Arvind Rao joins Matrix managing director Rishi Navani on the Ver se board. The company already has an international distribution partnership [...]
Successful entrepreneurs, they say, make the best venture capitalists. While there are several venture capitalists who have never been entrepreneurs but hold stellar records as investors, the premium attached to an investor who has been down in the trenches himself is understandably higher. Also, when such entrepreneurs turn to investing in new entrepreneurs, the startup [...]
Hyderabad is a charming city and the biryani more than lives up to its name. Unlike previous years, the Marriott, off the majestic Hussain Sagar, was the venue for TiE-ISB Connect 2009. The event has also gotten bigger. About 500-plus delegates were in attendance. But there was one key element missing this year. The Business [...]
Palo Alto, California-based Accel Partners is spreading its wings in India. The venture and growth investor, which manages a $6 billion global capital pool, has hired Neeraj Bharadwaj to steer its growth investments here. Bharadwaj moves from private equity major Apax Partners after an eleven year stint, which included leading the firm’s India investments from [...]
Brad Feld is co-founder and managing director of Boulder, Colorado-based early stage venture capital firm Foundry Group. Prior to Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies in the US. Feld has been blogging since 2005 at his personal blog Feld Thoughts. He also blogs [...]
Investments: $21 million
Deals: 6
Top Deal
Bangalore-based Eka Software Solutions, which makes software applications for the commodities trading industry, raised $10 million from Nexus Venture Partners (earlier known as Nexus India Capital). Eka was founded in 2001 by CEO Manav Garg and currently employs over 200 people. It aims to get to $100 million revenues by 2012 [...]
An interesting movement is gaining ground in the US entrepreneurial space, driven by a group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Initially dubbed the ‘Startup Founder Visa Movement‘, the initiative now has a home at StartupVisa.com. It hopes to change US government policy around the EB-5-Visa to allow entrepreneurs from other countries to get a visa [...]
Deals
Bangalore-based mobile payment application provider mChek, reports VC Circle, has raised $5-8 million from Nexus India Capital in Series B funding. The company had raised a $5 million Series A in 2006 from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which is also said to have participated in the current round. Neither Nexus nor mChek have confirmed the deal [...]
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