The study concludes that out of the estimated 4.8 crore mobile Internet users (according to IAMAI) in the country today, about 2 crore users have shifted 50 per cent of their newspaper and television time to mobile screens.
Komli Media has renewed its reseller agreement with Facebook in India. The company is the only authorized re-seller of Facebook premium inventory in India.
A week after Amar Goel-founded PubMatic raised a $45 million mezzanine round, his other company, Mumbai-based ad network Komli Media has raised a $39 million Series D round from Norwest Venture Partners and existing investors.
Amar Goel-founded ad management and monetization technology startup PubMatic has brought on board Charles Schenck as vice president of publisher sales, the company announced today. Schenck joins the Redwood City-based startup from Krux Digital, a data management platform. Earlier, he was also part of the senior leadership team at American Express publishing. This is the [...]
Mumbai-based online ad network Komli Media has raised $15 million in Series C funding from Norwest Venture Partners and existing investors Helion Venture Partners and Nexus Venture Partners. The fresh capital will be used to expand its presence in India and the Asia Pacific region, said a press release. Niren Shah, managing director at Norwest [...]
Komli Media, a Mumbai-based advertising network startup, has picked up $6 million in Series B funding from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The fresh funds will be used to grow the company’s presence in the Asia Pacific region. The funding follows Komli’s acquisition of PostClick in Australia last [...]
Accelerator to angel to VC flow still struggling to find equilibrium in India
I had fun moderating the panel on early stage financing at India Internet Day. VCCircle has an interesting article. The key issues are as under: 1. Too few deals are progressing from accelerators to angel, and from angel to Series A. Only five per cent of deals going from accelerators to Series A might not [...]
The early ecommerce marketplace pioneers: eBay class of 2000-2005
TechCrunch recently published an article I wrote about how the eBay class of 2000-2005 helped shape ecommerce in Silicon Valley and continues to innovate and move the sector forward. By understanding what shaped this class’ experience and examining where these alums are today, we identified the most important industry trends and start to see a [...]
The founder’s guide to surviving the Series A crunch
The Indian entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem is fast maturing. Today we have more early stage funds than ever. This fund availability will only improve, aside from the temporary blips caused due to macroeconomic ups and downs. We are in one such ‘crunch’ today, where even though seed and angel funds are writing cheques with [...]
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