Posts Tagged ‘vc’

The Desi (Martini) Deal

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20 Dec 2007

Getting funding is easy.
Recently, I had read Sujai Karampuri, founder of Sloka Telecom (henceforth, the Sloka guy) ranting about the fact that VCs were shying away from funding his company. I felt bad for for about half a second because it looks like a great idea, but then I moved on hoping that somebody on [...]

Sudheer Kuppam is MD of Intel Captial in AsiaPac

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22 Mar 2007

via ContentSutra, India’s Digital News Monitor, Published in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of chip maker Intel, has appointed Sudheer Kuppam as managing director for India, Japan, Australasia and South-East Asia. Kuppam replaces Kumar Shiralagi, who moved as MD of NEA IndoUS Vetures.Kuppam, formerly a director of Intel Capital’s Flash Memory [...]

Rajesh Jain starts venture fund called Emergic; makes first investment with Mobifusion

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18 Mar 2007

Rajesh Jain (the IndiaWorld founder) has floated a venture fund called Emergic Ventures, which has already made it’s first investment in Mobifusion.com, a US based mobile content and applications company. Along with other investors, they have invested $3.1 million in the company.
In the winters of 1999, Rajesh Jai, (who also runs a blog called Emergic), [...]

Do you really need a VC?

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11 Mar 2007

Bootstrapping is out of fashion. Every second company these days goes looking for a venture capitalist, and start off the company firing on both ends. But it you are a budding entrepreneur, and are looking for funding, I must tell you that playing with VC’s has more problems than you know about. They can get [...]

Recruitment

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24 Feb 2007

Here is another job portal, which they claim is a third generation job portal.
Now what is a third generation job portal? It is one which allows companies to cross check references and details provided by people in the resume, to check any fake resumes running around. This site is called Mohan Choti
To be frank there [...]

Funding

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20 Feb 2007

Blackstone, the world leader in private equity is investing $50 million in Pune based Emcure pharma.(Link)
Google has invested in two Indian VC funds, Erasmic and Seefund.
Seedfund is looking to invest in 15-20 Indian companies in the range of $500k.Erasmic has invested in two companies, one of which is holidayIQ, whose ads keep showing up in [...]


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