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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Well siting here writing this blog post and the rains come down lashing the Mumbai streets with thundering added to effect. Ironic isn’t it? When its raining money as well for startups as well. Two companies have recently raised funding and here are the updates on the invetsments.
Vanu raises 32 Million $ in venture funding

Vanu, [...]

Well its raining investment news today with two companies raising funding but at different stages. Its always better to hear of seed/early stage investments happening in this space as thats where the most money is required albeit in smaller chunks compared to middle and late stage funding. So here are the top funding news stories [...]

Glam Media has announced that it would be launching its ad operations in India alongwith United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and China. Whats interesting to note that Glam media is headed by an Indian origin founder by the name of Samir Arora. Also if you check the alexa stats for glam.com shows that after the US which constitutes for 59% of Glam’s traffic its India which is second on the list of countries with 6.2% of glams traffic.

Talk about the roof giving way and a windfall of money falling from it and it just doesn’t stop raining money! Im sure if one were to visit the cleartrip office in mumbai a similar scene atleast in context of the news just in can be visualized. So more funding has come into the [...]

Its just been a week since the new year started and already the money seems to be pouring in when it comes to online startups. Million dollar funding news has almost become the norm in the internet and mobile circles. So here are two more updates on who got funded by whom and what it [...]