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		<title>Deepak Ghaisas, Girish Paranjpe, others team up for new VC fund Exfinity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangalore is getting itself a new venture capital fund and backed by some of the most high-profile names from the Indian information technology services sector. Former i-flex Solutions CEO Deepak Ghaisas, former Wipro joint CEO Girish Paranjpe and Aarin Capital founder TV Mohandas Pai have come together to set up a new venture capital fund [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Are there too few seed/ angel investors in India or is too much money chasing too few great companies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mukund Mohan | Microsoft Ventures]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a debate that I keep having with entrepreneurs and investors alike. When you talk to entrepreneurs they correctly point out the # of angel and seed deals done in India are very few. If you remove accelerators, the number of angel-funded tech companies in India is about 60 (year 2013) and the number [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventus Capital closes Fund II at over $100 mn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snigdha Sengupta]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inventus Capital Partners has closed its second India-focused fund, raising a little over $100 million from a group of limited partners consisting of global financial institutions, pension funds, family offices and individuals from the US and Europe. The new fund, dubbed Inventus Capital Partners Fund II, is double the size of the firm&#8217;s first fund [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>LabourNet raises funding from Acumen, Dell Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangalore-based LabourNet Services, a company that offers vocational training and services for informal sector workers, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Acumen and Michael &#38; Susan Dell Foundation. The company has enabled livelihoods through training for over 50,000 people to date and plans to train over 125,000 workers annually within the next five [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ERC Eye Care raises funding from Ennovent, Ankur Capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ERC Eye Care Center has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Ennovent Impact Investment Holding and Ankur Capital, reports The Economic Times. Beyond Capital Fund, angel investor Sadeesh Raghavan and Ennovent Circle have participated in the round. The stage of investment has not been specified. The company will use the funds raised to expand [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Unitus Seed Fund launches India BoP fund; raises $3.3 mn in first close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snigdha Sengupta]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unitus Seed Fund, the Seattle-based venture capital firm that invests in startups focused on opportunities at the bottom-of-the-pyramid, has raised $3.3 million (about Rs 20 crore) for its Unitus Seed Fund India (USFI). The fund has a final target corpus of $9-12 million (Rs 50-75 crore). The new fund has received approvals from the Securities and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Giveter raises seed round from India Quotient, 5ideas and Binny Bansal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gurgaon-based Giveter, a gifts recommendation engine that leverages social media, has raised an undisclosed amount in a seed round of funding from a group of investors, reports TechCircle. The round was led by Mumbai-based early stage investor India Quotient and other investors include Flipkart founder Binny Bansal and 5ideas Startup Superfuel, the Delhi-based seed fund [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Deck raises $600K from Qualcomm Ventures, Sabeer Bhatia</title>
		<link>http://startupcentral.in/2013/12/deck-raises-600k-from-qualcomm-ventures-sabeer-bhatia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deck App Technologies, developer of Deck, an app that enables users to create and display business presentations on mobile devices, has raised $600,000 in a seed round of funding from Qualcomm Ventures and a group of angel investors led by Sabeer Bhatia, reports TechCrunch. The Bangalore-based company had earlier raised $100,000 from Qualcomm Ventures by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooperatives marketplace GoCoop gets angel round from IAN Impact</title>
		<link>http://startupcentral.in/2013/12/cooperatives-marketplace-gocoop-gets-angel-round-from-ian-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snigdha Sengupta]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangalore-based GoCoop Solutions and Services has raised an undisclosed amount in an angel round of funding from Indian Angel Network (IAN). Unitus Seed Fund is a co-investor in the round. This is the second investment being made through the angel network&#8217;s recently launched IAN Impact platform which targets startups that address consumers and problems at [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Venture capital in India &#8212; The Summit Push</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alok Mittal | Canaan Partners]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now my eighth year in succession of claiming a great year for venture capital. I have been in the business for all of eight years. But then, I am also an amateur marathoner and a climber. And in all of these three trades, it takes years of perseverance to scale the summit. As [&#8230;]]]></description>
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