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I’m working on tour again after a full six months and it’s a good feeling. And I’m back in Delhi, which is not so nice. Agenda: catch up with the private equity shops based here. There are quite a few heavyweight ones — ChrysCapital, Citigroup Venture Capital, Henderson Equity Partners, Actis, Providence Equity Partners, DE [...]

Sequoia Capital India picked up former Sify CEO and co-founder R Ramaraj as senior advisor over the weekend. That’s two Sify scalps after George Zacharias, former Sify COO and then Yahoo! India chief, got $20 million funding for his start-up (yet to be unveiled) from Sequoia. So will Ramraj be advising Zacharias? Sequoia (which was [...]

September is brimming over with BarCamps (and variations) cross-country. Browse below: OSS Camp Delhi — September 8th and 9th — Registrations are open, the venue is Impetus Infotech at Sector 59 in Noida and among outstation campers already registered for the event, there are two guys from the US and one from Bangladesh! MySQL Camp [...]

So there’s a Bangalore Open CoffeeClub as well. It debuted on August 19 at BrewHaHa, the coffee shop that’s more than a coffee shop at Koramangala. Again, OpenCoffee Club or OCC is a global unconference movement that originated in London. It was founded by entrepreneur and early-stage investor Saul Klein who among many things has [...]

Last week ChrysCapital, some of you may remember them as Chrysalis Capital from another time, raised a $1.25 billion fund, its fifth so far (the last one had a $550 million corpus and was raised just over a year ago). This is the largest private equity fund raised for India till date and that too [...]