One of the final panel discussions at WATSummit is on Startups Vs VC’s. We expect to end the summit with a bang with this panel as a lot of startups have a lot of things to say about VC’s. Representing the VC’s on the panel would be the ‘to the point’ speaking Rahul Khanna of Clearstone Venture Advisors. Rahul is known not to mince words so be ready for some fireworks...

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, Inc is a provider of software radio infrastructure solutions for...

Mumbai Angels has invested 2 crores in a Mobile Tv startup by the name of Apalya Technologies reports VCCircle. According to their website Apalya Technologies is based in Hyderabad, India and its primary business is to aggregate premium entertainment content from many different content providers, and then optimize the same to be suitable for mobile viewing. Apalyas works on delivering the best possible...

Funding Funding and more funding.. Well soo much of it that its difficult to get by for a day till funding isn’t mentioned in a post. So here are all the funding updates :   Homeshop18 raises 21 M $ from Saif and Capital18 HomeShop18 which is Network18′s online and on-air retail marketing company and which launched the country’s first 24 hour Home Shopping TV channel has raised...

Its seems to be the official funding news day with earlier the announcement coming in from Ozone media regarding raising of 4 million dollars and now its time for another advertising based startup by the name of Ideacts to announce its funding. Sp Sequoia has gone ahead and bet 5 million $ on Ideacts which esentially has a product called Clinck that powers desktop advertising. Well these are desktops...

Well this is surely funding windfall 2.0 and if the earlier windfall was cut short by the dotcom bust this windfall will take some stopping if at all it can stop. The money seems to be pouring in from all directions in India. Those who have invested stay invested and are looking to invest some more and those who had invested earlier and gone back seem to be returing with more money this time around....

India is possibly the only market in the world where there might be more Venture capitalists doing the round than entrepreneurs and there and very few platforms as well which help showcase entrepreneurs and give them access to VC’s. One such platform is Proto.in which is happening next month.   But back to my point of increasing VC’s.. Inventus Capital has joined the bandwagon of the long...

Well the big boy in business networking has finally found its worth. So if you thought that after the massive 15 billion $ valuation for facebook.. Linkedin looked like a poor cousin? think again! Linkedin has raised a whopping 53 million $ in financing and finally broken the magic number of 1 billion $ in valuation.   Linkedin has been criticised to be a slow mover in the networking space. Though...

Funding is in vogue be it the international circuit where players like twitter and even iphone centric development startups are seeing interest from VCs. Closer to home, the scene may not be as hot as the US but it’s still good enough for a company like Paymate which has managed to raise 9 million $ in B series funding from PE funds like Mayfield Fund and existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield...

Venture Hacks, a blog on entrepreneurship has launched what it calls the Recommended feature. Well as the name goes, the service helps the new entrepreneurs seek recommendations from people that ether know them or have used their service. Founded by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, Venture Hacks plans to make the process of reference checking smoother by presenting a Twitter-like system where you...