BookAdda: Former Infosys director TV Mohandas Pai and business partner Ranjan Pai (the two are not related) have made four investments worth $35 million. The biggest investment is $8 million in California-based medical technology company Insightra. Another investment is in online book retailer BookAdda. The investments have been made from the Pais’ $100 million unnamed private equity fund. (Source: The [...]
As expected, venture capital investments during the first three months of 2012 gravitated towards ecommerce companies. Out of the 48-odd deals reported during the January-March quarter, nine were in ecommerce. Overall investments stand at over $300 million, with ecommerce companies snagging over $200 million, based on data available in the public domain. The ecommerce tally, [...]
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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