Venture Capital in india

WATShow caught up with Suvir Sujan of Nexus India Capital and asked him about his recent investment in sedemac a company in the efficient energy segment and we also queried him about what kind of companies he is looking to fund given the newly closed 220 million $ fund.
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We did a WATShow to Raman Roy the founding member of Indian Angel Network (previously band of angels) at the recently concluded Nasscom summit and questioned him about angel funding, business plans, what’s critical for a startup and so on.
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Accel which was earlier Erasmic Ventures in India has closed a $60M Venture Fund to invest in seed and early stage opportunities in India.

The fund is looking at sectors as divers as  Technology, Technology-enabled Services, Internet, Mobile, Media, Life Sciences, Consumer Products and Services, and other high-growth sectors of the Indian economy
Seed and early stage [...]

Rediff.com has announced an investment in a mobile firm by the name of Eterno Infotech. Eterno is founded by ex- Nokia employees, Umesh Kulkarni and Chandrashekhar Sohoni. Eterno which is a Bangalore based  provides mobile applications with Indian language support on popular mobile operating systems such as Symbian, J2ME and  BREW. Eterno’s suite of innovative [...]

Slowdown or no Slowdown.. VC’s have money and they shall invest is the mantra as funding news continues to trickle in and there is no apparent impact as yet of the impending slowdown on the funding in the Indian space.
So two more startups have got funding lately and they are in diverse spaces like mobile [...]

We are at the TIE-ISB Connect happening at ISB, Hyderabad and yesterday was day 1 of the conference where in workshops were conduction on raising funding and marketing strategy for startups.
One of the sessions was on fund raising by startups and DD ganguly of dimdim.com was the speaker.
DD Ganguly of Dimdim.com on How to raise [...]

Carwale.com the standalone auto classifieds portal that raised seed funding from SeedFund in 2006. Now Carwale has raised their A series funding from Sierra Ventures (which also are one of the limited partners in seed fund) of about 7 million dollars. With is funding Tim Guleri and Vispi Daver of Sierra Ventures will join the [...]

Myntra.com an online marketplace for on demand consumer products like t-shirts, mugs, greeting cards, calendars, keychains and diaries has received an A series round of funding from three venture firms in NEA-IndoUS, IDG Ventures and Accel Partners. The funding shall be utilized for geography expansion (they have recently opened a noida office) and product portfolio [...]

Admob a global mobile advertising player which recently announced the launch of its services in India has raised its 3rd round of funding from Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners (Yes the same guys who acquired Erasmic in India). Admob raised 15.7 million $ which ofcourse which wil be utilized to futher its expansion plans in [...]

Satish Dharmaraj the Co-founder and CEO of Zimbra the open source messaging and collaboration services which was sold to yahoo for 350 million $ has invested an undisclosed sum in dimdim.com the open source webex competitor which was earlier funded for 5 M $ by Nexus India Capital in 2007 and then in July 2008 [...]

We had ealier spoken to Tim Draper of DFJ on his thoughts about the slowdown. We felt that we also needed to take a closer to home point of view of Venture Capitalists who have been working with entrepreneurs and business models in India for sometime now.

We caught up with Sateesh Andra of Draper Fisher [...]

Despite the alarm bells of the global economic slowdown the funding for startups continues in the Indian space. There are two funding updates for today:
9.9 Mediaworx raises 7.5 Million $ from Helion Ventures and TVS Shriram Growth Fund
9.9 mediaworx is a media company which owns Digit a personal technology magazine, The CTO Forum, a magazine [...]

We met Tim Draper the Founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Juvertson who was in Mumbai recently. We spoke to him on various issues right from the current economic slowdown to how he viewed the Indian market, his advice to entrepreneurs and Why was he in India?.. and more..
Tim on Global Economic Slowdown
Entrepreneurs Perspective
Tim [...]

We had quoted Ashish Gupta saying that they had not funded SmsGupshup but its quite possible that at that time which was about three months back the deal would be in process and not confirmed for him to commit to the funding. But now Helion has made a confirmed announcement and a total of 11 [...]

How shall I run my processes? How to retain talented people? How to build brand value? How to go ahead with marketing scheme? Yes, these are few questions which whirls in the mind of an entrepreneurs ! But if its an early stage start up then entire thing boils down to.. How to get Funding? [...]