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Just yesterday we blogged about the second batch of Morpheus Venture Partners companies and there were some queries on their model So we decided to have an exclusive interview with Sameer and Nandini of Morpheus Ventures and asked them some interesting questions. Read on to know all there is to know about Morpheus Venture [...]

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.

For those of you who are still scratching their heads thinking how that desktops in cybercafe’s be monetized think again! CLINCK is an Active Desktop Application which provides the user with shortcuts to Internet Browsers, Messengers, System Shortcuts, Search, News, Entertainment and Online Storage. And its monetized through ads. Currently Ideacts has advertisers like Dell, MSN, Cadbury Perk etc which suggests potential in the model.

Youtube is one of the webs most well documented successes. It can be awarded the most revolutionary innovation since the invention of television given the sheer distribution of video that it has created and has feeded on the long tail of video viewers be it on blogs or on youtube itself.
 
Now one of Youtube’s co-founders [...]

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 makes much more sense for wannabe entrepreneurs.
 
IIM-Calcutta’s annual business plan competition i2I 2008 will have Seedfund considering investments in two of the winning teams - [...]

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 Sethi, Director of US-IVCA and founder, chairman and managing director of IDG Ventures India said,
 
”With strong interest among Limited [...]

So if on one end its startups that are bubbling on the scene on the other end there are VC’s and Angel’s who are lining up to fund these startups and help in taking them to the next level. So here is a low down on whose raising money and who isn’t!
 
 
AutoIndia Receives Angel investment
 
AutoIndia [...]

WATBlog was at Proto.in over the last weekend and there were two eventful days with lots of startup action down south in chennai. On the first day there were business tracks and technology tracks where many esteemed speakers spoke on various topics. Over the course of the next few days we shall try and publish [...]

Online Photo sharing and printing is one of the most crowded spaces and we have blogged about the same earlier as well and also published a presentation covering most of the players in this space. Also recently we had blogged about 16frames which alongwith photo printing also provides video publishing i.e. users can upload and [...]

For those who dont know Myntra.com is an online marketplace for on-demand consumer products stuff like T-Shirts, Mugs, Calendars, Keychains, Diaries etc where you can publish you own design on the product and then buy it!
They have various customization tools which enable the user to create and customize his own design. Myntra’s core team comprises [...]

Ok i thought the phase when travel portals were getting funding was over! But i was terribly wrong.. It seems that travel is the most funded (see list below) and the most competitive segment in the online space.
The first round of funding that happened for players in this space is as follows

Yatra Online ($5 [...]

Just read these numbers from an article and it seems like VC money is overflowing.. In 2006, venture capitalists (VCs) struck 30 deals worth a total of $200 million most of which went into Internet and mobile phones that are expected to boom in India. In comparison, VCs invested a total of only $36 million in [...]

Well this is not fresh news.. I came to know about Madhouse.in the online dvd video rental company getting funding around the 1st of January this year but this post is not to inform you about the funding its about why did madhouse get funding inspite of there being a Seventymm.com which has already raised [...]