Menlo Park, California headquartered Mayfield Fund, the early stage venture capital firm that entered India in 2008, recently launched its second India fund with a $108 million corpus. The investment mandate for Fund II is a bit different from the firm’s first fund. When Mayfield kicked off investments here with its $111 million Fund I,…More
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BVP tweaks India strategy; more technology, early stage startups
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the Menlo Park, California headquartered early-to-growth stage investor, is in the middle of small though significant transition in India. The firm has all but moved its operations to Bangalore, as it sharpens its focus on earlier stage investments in the technology domain. The Mumbai offices, which served as BVP’s India headquarters…More
NVP launches twelfth global fund with $1.2 bn corpus
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), the Palo Alto, California headquartered multi-stage venture and growth equity investor, is announcing the close of its latest fund, dubbed Norwest Venture Partners XII, LP. The $1.2 billion fund targets early-to-late stage venture and growth investments across sectors. The new fund, brings NVP’s total capital and commitments to approximately $5 billion…More
Sumit Jain on CommonFloor’s first acquisition, growth plans and bootstrapping
Last week, Bangalore based maxHeap Technologies, which operates real estate search and listings platform CommonFloor, announced its first acquisition with Mumbai based Flat.to, a students and single professionals focused property listings platform. The acquisition came just months after CommonFloor raised $10.4 million in a growth round of funding from existing investors Accel Partners and Tiger…More
Venky Natarajan on RuralShores, Lok Capital’s first non-MFI exit
Delhi headquartered impact investor Lok Capital, which manages $85 million over two India-focused funds, partially exited portfolio company RuralShores on Tuesday, earning a 6X return on its original investment. The exit is a milestone for the firm because it is its first non-microfinance exit and validates its 2012 strategy to diversify away from the microfinance…More
Kleiner India head Sandeep Murthy launches Lightbox Ventures
Mumbai based Lightbox Ventures is the newest entrant to the Indian venture capital market. The barely a month-old firm has some familiar names at its helm. The team is fronted by Sandeep Murthy, who has just stepped down from Sherpalo Ventures, where he led the India investments for both Sherpalo and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and…More
Lok Capital scores 6X partial exit from RuralShores
Lok Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation-backed impact investment firm, is announcing a partial exit from BPO company RuralShores. The financial details of the exit have not been disclosed. However, the firm said that it has earned a 6X multiple on its initial investment, made from the Lok Capital Fund I. The investment was made in 2009.…More
Haptik founder Aakrit Vaish wants to create a WhatsApp for product support
Early this week, Aakrit Vaish, a Mumbai based technology entrepreneur and angel investor, had a windfall. One of his more recent investments, online real estate listings and search startup Flat.to got acquired by Bangalore company Commonfloor for an undisclosed amount. Vaish had angel funded the company less than a year ago (the amount was undisclosed).…More
Commonfloor buys Flat.to in cash-and-stock deal; angel investor Aakrit Vaish exits
Mumbai based Flat.to, the online real estate search and listings platform targeted at students and single working professionals, has been acquired by Commonfloor barely a year after it was founded. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. However, founder Gaurav Munjal told us that the deal is a cash-and-stock transaction. Post-acquisition, Munjal…More
Harish Bahl of Smile Group on Katalyzers, TPG’s role and Springstar — Medianama
Smile Group has created a joint venture with TPG Growth called Katalyzers to help companies from developed markets launch their products in developing markets. We spoke with Harish Bahl, who is the founder of Smile Group and General Partner in Katalyzer to know more about the new venture, how they plan to approach these markets and the relationship it shares with TPG.…More