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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 [...]

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 [...]

Ojas Ventures, along with Inventus Capital has announced a funding of $2 million for TeliBrahma. TeliBrahma provides Bluetooth advertising solutions for mobile devices.
Joining the board of TeliBrahma will be Samir Kumar of Inventus and Pavan Krishnamurthy of Ojas.
TeliBrahma operates in the emerging mobile-advertising market. Though its offering is different from others, as it doesn’t uses [...]

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, [...]

Sumir Chadha, managing director at Sequoia Capital India said, “There is a lot of investor interest and we are not too worried about (market) cycles.”

Rahul Khanna, director Clearstone Venture Advisors in an interview with Economic Times said, “This is the right time to invest in the Indian companies as a VC investor…”

Dr. Fung further adds, ” I expect BuzzCity will expand in Africa, Middle East and Latin America, and strengthen our operations across Asia, Europe and US.” BuzzCity which is a Singapore based mobile content and services company, also owns myGamma a mobile social network, received $10 million from MIH.

WATShow interviewed Dr Rajesh Shrivathsa of Ojas Ventures when we went shooting the Startups at Proto 4. We had recently covered Ojas Ventures’ acquisition of mobile tech startup Mango Technology. And as promised then, we now have an interview with Dr. Rajesh.

There is no dearth of funding in India and that can be clearly seen in the second quarter of 2008. According to the Quarterly India Venture Capital Report released yesterday by Dow Jones VentureSource, advertising start-ups have received maximum funding - $89 million-nearly 37% of the region’s quarterly investment total-went to five advertising/marketing companies, more [...]

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 [...]

Komli.com the India focussed DFJ backed ad network that recently came out with a report on online users and their demographics has now announced a exclusive channel for technology advertisers. In the same report it had the demographics of users who visit technology sites. Here are some demographic charts from that survey:

The most interesting statistic [...]

Picsquare.com one of the many photo sharing, printing and gifting sites that we covered in this slideshare presentation has finally secured funding. Picsquare has raised an undisclosed sum from Bhola Digital labs which is a  decade and a half old company into high quality printing solutions and is spread across Karnataka. There have been a [...]

We interviewed one of Lifeblob’s founders Pranav Bhasin immediately upon the news of Lifeblob’s funding by Seedfund. We discussed business models, funding, and milestones besides Lifeblob’s story and how it adds value to the users to get a better perspective of the news. Without further adieu, here’s the interview:

Lifeblob.com the startup that presented at proto.in recently has closed 1 million $’s in funding from seed stage angel fund Seedfund which is led by the founder of Pinstorm Mahesh Murthy.

 
Founded in 2000, MouthShut.com is an User Generated Content Company. It has evolved into an online community where consumers come together to write and read reviews and compare hundreds of products and services. It is also a repository which offers consumers the option of recording and posting video reviews.
 
WATShow recently met up with Faisal [...]

 
The infamous micro blogging site Twitter was initially used for internal purpose by San Francisco Startup Company called Obvious, LLC. It all began in March 2006; Twitter was started as a R&D project. In October 2006 it was opened to all. Since then it has been busy creating history.
 
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