Welcoming Rahul Khanna – Director, Clearstone Ventures As Speaker @ WATSummit 2011

by | posted: December 24, 2010
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....
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Funding Updates: Vanu & Pressmart Secure 32M$ and 6M$ respectively

by | posted: September 5, 2008
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...
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Mumbai Angels Invest 2crore In Mobile TV Startup Apalya Technologies

by | posted: August 6, 2008
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...
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Funding Updates: HomeShop18 raises 21M$, IDG & Seedfund Announce Second India Centric Funds

by | posted: July 9, 2008
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...
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More Funding.. 5 Million $ By Sequoia For Cybercafe Ad Network – Ideacts.com

by | posted: July 2, 2008
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...
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Funding WindFall 2.0 – Canaan To Invest More & Walder Returns With More Money!

by | posted: June 30, 2008
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...
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One More VC Joins The Bandwagon – Inventus with 125 M $.. Some Pointers On Dealing With VC’s

by | posted: June 27, 2008
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...
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LinkedIn Worth 1 Billion! Looking to Acquire Smaller Players?

by | posted: June 18, 2008
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...
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Funding Updates: Paymate Gets B Series 9 Million $ in Funding.. Does Funding Alienate A Company?

by | posted: June 11, 2008
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...
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Venture Hacks Launches Recommended – Entrepreneur Recommendation Feature

by | posted: April 2, 2008
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...
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Funding Updates : Seedfund considering investment in Mudranik, UniApply

by | posted: February 26, 2008
Moving on from the “cash prizes” handed over to the Business Plan competition winners, the business schools have now moved to awarding the winners by actual funding – something that...
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Events Review : E-Summit at IIT-Bombay – Keynote speech by S. Ramadorai, CEO, TCS

by | posted: February 11, 2008
The IIT-Bombay campus on Sunday was a hub of activities as hundreds of delegates descended to attend the E-Summit, organized by IIT-Powai. Organized by the E-Cell, was an event to discuss the different...
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WATShow Episode 13 – Amar Goel – Komli.com Founder – Talks About PubMatic & VC Funding!

by | posted: February 8, 2008
WATShow is Back! This week we bring you gyaan from the recently funded startup Komli.com‘s (An Ad Network which also owns Pubmatic.com) Founder & CEO Amar Goel. Amar spoke about the following What...
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Yahoo Looking To Fund New Startups?

by | posted: February 6, 2008
  There is news for every one willing to start up. Recently Yahoo India announced their new strategy to help young entrepreneurs. Yahoo wants to invest its fund in untouched areas like Indian food,...
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Funding Updates : Matrix Partners invest in Kijiji; Consim (formerly BharatMatrimony) raises funds from Mayfield Fund, Yahoo and Canaan Partners; Tyfone gets funded by Ojas Venture Partners

by | posted: February 6, 2008
Matrix Partners invest in Kijiji   Matrix Partners India has invested in Indian mobile classified startup Kijiji.com. Kijiji India, lauanched in 2005, is an online website that caters to a local community...
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VCs invest over half a billion dollar in India in 2007

by | posted: January 30, 2008
A report by Venture Intelligence says Venture Capital firms invested around $543 million in India in 2007. A total of 98 companies were invested in, majority of them being the seed-level and stage 1 funding.   Sudhir...
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