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Sateesh Andra, venture partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) India, founded Euclid Software and led product development and engineering in companies such as Wipro, Tsqware and LSI Logic, before turning venture capitalist last year. DFJ has invested in 11 companies here so far out of a $100 million India allocation from a $650 million global [...]

There have been several startups in the space of Digital Lifestyle Aggregation (DLA) which have come up globally in the past 18 months. DLAs let users create and organize memorable digital assets (using emails, photos, videos, documents, SMS, blogs, social apps, etc.) and help them share these with family and friends. Users use it to [...]

This one remains my favourite business plan contest. Young, fun and always evolving. Eureka! 2008, IIT Bombay’s annual biz plan jamboree opens for applications on Monday, September 1. The event gets bigger this year. The total prize money is Rs 25 lakh against Rs 14 lakh in 2007. The Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) expects 2,500 entries [...]

Since the launch of its $100 million fund in July 2007, Mumbai-based venture capital firm Nexus India Capital has already notched up 13 deals and is now fully committed. The firm actually started investing a little before it formally completed fundraising in July. Its first deal was Mobile2Win in January 2007. Nexus’ investors seem to [...]

Did someone say slowdown? After Helion Venture Partners earlier this year Mumbai-based Nexus India Capital has raised its second fund, dubbed the $220 million Nexus India Capital II, LP. The firm, which launched operations here in 2006 with a $100 million Fund I, has invested in 13 companies so far. Listed below: Dimdim: Open source [...]