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BarCamp Mumbai 3 is getting cooler by the minute — and I don’t mean just the new logo. They’ve added a parallel event — BlogCamp Mumbai Style. This will also run from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm and is at the same venue, School of Management at IIT Bombay. The camp is actually a continuation [...]

Helion Venture Partners raised its second fund with a $210 million corpus  early this month. It is the only venture capital firm in India at present that has raised two funds within 20 months. The first fund, $140 million, was raised in August 2006. The second  fund has been raised primarily from investors in the [...]

After a over a year of expounding on BarCamps and unconferences I finally attended one — BarCamp MU3 at the KJ Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology at Sion. So what does a BarCamp at the university level look like? A bunch of maybe forty guys and girls, not all of them students, sitting [...]

Budget 2008 came and went by last weekend and not a murmur on venture capital.  A lot of folks in the industry had hoped for a word on the tax pass-through benefit that was withdrawn in Budget 2007 except for investments in select sectors. Much is expected in terms of deal activity in the early [...]