The finalists for the 2013 Sankalp Social Enterprise Awards have been announced and include a cross section of companies from agriculture to technology to clean energy. The winners, to be announced at the Sankalp Unconvention Summit in mid-April in Mumbai, will compete to win funding worth Rs 5 crore (around $1 million) and a cash [...]
Trivandrum-headquartered Eram Scientific Solutions, an arm of the $1 billion Eram Group, swept the 2012 Sankalp Awards, which were announced in Mumbai last evening. The company takes home a cash prize of $40,000 for its innovation in creating Delight, an automated public sanitation unit for urban citizens in developing countries. The 2012 Sankalp Summit concluded with the awards, which [...]
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Sankalp Summit, Asia’s largest collaborative platform to bring together social enterprises, impact investors, policy makers, academicians and other market makers, returns on April 11-13. The event will be held in Mumbai and a key feature of the summit this year is the expansion of focus to business models being used in the larger Asian region. [...]
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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