Are venture capitalists backing enough startups?

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Snigdha Sengupta

Are Indian venture capitalists investing in enough startups? Startupcentral, in collaboration with Proto.in, put together a panel of venture capitalists to talk about their investing strategies. The round table was held on the sidelines of Proto.in Edition 6 in Pune. Panelist Profiles Alok Mittal, General Partner, Canaan Partners Mittal co-founded jobs portal Jobahead, which was acquired by Monster, prior to…

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Nandini Hirianniah outlines The Morpheus gameplan

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Snigdha Sengupta

Morpheus Venture PartnersLast weekend, Bangalore-based Morpheus Venture Partners, a startup mentoring firm, announced the third batch of companies that will be mentored by the firm’s three partners Sameer Guglani, Nandini Hirianniah (in photo) and Indus Khaitan. See the list of companies in the press release here. Guglani and Hirianniah started Morpheus in mid-2008, modelled on the Paul Graham YCombinator startup…

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Consumer Services Spell Unique Returns for Indian VCs

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Snigdha Sengupta

[media-credit name="Snigdha Sengupta" align="alignnone" width="150"][/media-credit]Kanwaljit Singh started Bangalore and New Delhi based venture capital firm Helion Venture Partners with Ashish Gupta and Sanjeev Aggarwal in April 2006. The firm has raised $350 million and invested in 21 companies till date. In 2008, Helion added consumr services businesses to its investment focus alongside technology-powered businesses. Singh, who earlier led Carlyle Group’s…

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