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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 01:27 AM | February 19,2008
The last budget limited the pass-through only to venture capitalist funds focused only on certain sectors like nanotechnology, biotech, hotels and dairy farming
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 11:35 PM | February 04,2008
Despite a choppy market environment, the firm’s initial public offering, which closed on 29 January, was oversubscribed about 11 times
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 11:50 PM | January 21,2008
It will take a while for non-US investors to make their presence felt amid the ongoing rush of Silicon Valley funds into India, but it is a good start to creating a diversified funds pool
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:00 AM | January 08,2008
The growing presence of such funds here does mean more competition but the big beneficiary would be the market itself
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:12 AM | December 25,2007
2007, which closes in less than a week, has played its part in kicking off the second phase of venture investing in India
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 11:40 PM | December 10,2007
As investments in India inch towards $10 billion, maybe more, for 2007, there are growing concerns around overheating, with too much money flowing in too fast
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:43 AM | November 27,2007
In the past 12-18 months, Internet and mobile VAS start-ups, such as Makemytrip.com, People Interactive Group and Cellebrum, have been quietly concluding ‘pre-IPO’ deals.
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:51 AM | November 06,2007
Public-private partnerships are perhaps the most effective way to address the vast development needs of sectors such as infrastructure
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 09:59 PM | October 22,2007
Research released by NVCA and Thomson Financial shows that in the first nine months of 2007, venture capital funds raised $20.66 billion against $26.27 billion during the same period in 2006
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:59 AM | October 09,2007
Out of the 30-odd early-stage deals that have been closed in the last nine months, about 22 have been outside Bangalore
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 01:24 AM | September 25,2007
This season is very important for VCs, but more so for the nascent start-up ecosystem here
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 01:42 AM | September 11,2007
PE firms emphasize their role as value-added investors as opposed to other financial investors who bring just money to the table
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:59 AM | August 14,2007
Sebi’s numbers consider investments only by 90 domestic and 80 foreign funds. By industry estimates, more than 300 firms are actively investing in the country today
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 01:12 AM | July 31,2007
The entry of Norwest, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital and other venture capital firms belonging to the ‘gold standard’ cadre marks a turning point for India’s nascent venture capital industry
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Venture Matters | Snigdha Sengupta 12:36 AM | July 17,2007
Too many entrepreneurs go out looking for venture money before getting the basics in place
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