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These days Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers’ (KPCB) home page shouts out ‘In Search Of The Next Big Idea’. The firm’s deal run in India from January through June would suggest that this market is a part of that big search — four out of the 13-odd early-stage investments by venture capitalists in India during [...]

EMPEA reports that private equity fund raising in emerging markets (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Russia) is on track to beat 2007 levels — see EMPEA Release. A total of 104 funds have raised more than $35 billion in the first six months of 2008, up 68 per cent from the [...]

Some weeks ago, a reporting assignment took me to Malegaon, a village in Baramati, which lies about 99-100 kilometers outside Pune city. My destination was an emu farm, Bhagirathi Hatcheries, in Malegaon, one of the first in the state of Maharashtra. Sandip Sadashiv Taware, the owner of Bhagirathi Hatcheries, used to be a poultry (chicken) [...]

Mint reports this morning (surprisingly in its news briefs section) that Erasmic Venture Fund, a Bangalore-based seed fund that counts search giant Google among its investors, is merging (read: has been acquired) with Palo Alto-based Accel Partners, an investor in Facebook among several other technology-related companies. There is no official release up yet on either [...]

Vijay Anand, Proto.in’s chief organizer, is already populating his to-do list in preparation for the next edition of the unique startup showcase event scheduled for December in Bangalore. “We’re pulling the January 2009 edition to December. So this year we will actually do three editions,” he says. Next year, therefore, will have only one edition, [...]