This blog is an attempt to bring the Indian venture community closer together. All its constituents, right from the entrepreneurs themselves, venture capital firms, angel funds, lawyers, recruiters, investment bankers, incubation cells — the list goes on.
As an entrepeneur, then as an angel investor and private equity professional, I have felt that despite close alignment of our end goals, there exist vast gaps in our understanding of each other. Gaps which are often responsible for inefficiencies in the system. For example, the entrepreneurs’ collective understanding of what the “hot areas” are might be very different from the investors’ view — venturewoods is a platform to discuss, and not necessarily agree on, those views. This site is an attempt to prevent all of us from being lost in the woods.
The objective of venturewoods is to be an open community without compromising on quality. If you feel that you have thoughts that you want to share, feel free to write in and request an account. In any case, do feel free to comment.
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Hi everyone,
I represent a young company (1 year old) and growing company(110 people) based out of Ahmedabad, in eprocurement domain with branch office in 10 cities. How we grew this fast is a different story, but to sustain our growth we need 1 Mn Dollars immediately to expand in SAARC Countries. We have two broad services
– A Listing Portal for Tender, Project & Catalogue (hosted in alliance with Indiatimes – http://www.tenders.indiatimes.com)
– Online eProcuremnet solution hosted on http://www.abcprocure.com
We are an ISO 27001 Certified company which has enabled eprocurement in excess of Rs.5000 Cr (for ICICI, Gujarat Gas, ADB, Govt. of Gujarat, Govt. of MP, etc.) and we have 5000 Live subscribers for Tender listing portal too.
The projected turnover for this fiscal is Rs.12 Cr. We are seeking 1 Mn Dollars for this fiscal and a total of 5 Mn dollars in 3 years. Business Proposal is available on request.
Vishal Dhori
Founder
eProcurement Technologies Pvt. Ltd
sales@abcprocure.com
I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2001 and have returned home (mumbai) to pursue my entrepreneurship goals – specifically in the software as a service space. Currently we are self-funded and have been in business since 2005. Would love to contribute in this forum.
Sahil Parikh
spparikh@synage.com
Hi All!!
I’ve been trying to fund a startup idea and therefore been seeking for venture capital and / or angel investor for sometime now.
If we are looking at Technology, its not just the most popular IT – I am talking of tecnology into building Aerospace Applications. With ISRO’s commercial launching programme and aerospace majors across the globe consolidating and focusing on India to be the forth comming hub, it expected to be a boom in India.
In anticipation to the above, I intend to kick start a Manufacturing Unit catering to the aerospace applications, a higly lucrative feild and look towards venture capital and/or angel investment. would highly appriciate if someone could advice and help on this.
I have been into extensive Business Development and Corporate Planning in both Indian and Foreign Markets, for various projects at a variety of business houses spread across a wide region; with sales experience including Corporate Sales, Institutional Sales, Government Sales and Defence Sales (US Department of Defence), with security clearance to do business with the Fed. Govt. of US, NASA, NATO & the EU.
Would look towards some advice on the above.
Hi,
I came across this blog and found it useful. I graduated from IIT and left for US in early 90s and have worked with technology for over a decade. I have an MSCS and an ivy league MBA and looking at opportunities in VC or growth equity in India.
Bombay is the hub for all finance jobs and I was wondering about how many of these opportunities are available in Delhi.