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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Alok,
This is Ashish Gupta from Matrix services – a company providing capital intermediation and M&A assistance. We are currently representing network of HNWIs to scout for early stage deals.
I would love to join this blog to regulary post out my thoughts about the VC activity in India and to help out entrepreneurs with funding if need be.
Let me know how can i join this blog.
Ashish
hi,
I’m an event manager based in Mumbai, India. I’ve been ‘event’ing for over 8 years now with India’s topmost event management companies but it’s now time for me to venture out and set up my own ‘marketing ideas’ company. I have clients, and i have the work experience and i have vendor support but i just don’t have the finance to start up. I’m seriously trying to raise funds to start up the company and i’m hoping to get some advise from here. I see some of the best people are here – i’ve tried to reach a lot of angel investors through various methods but unfortunately haven’t been very succesful! I need to reach out to Mr Sanjay Bhargava, Mr. Alok Mittal and other angel investors in order to share my business plan with them. How do i do this?
Lavina Thakur
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Hi Murthy,
I am a career Venture Capitalist and a Private Equity consultant. The most critical constraint faced by Indian VC firms is strategic ties with US front ends for marketing their wares. We would be much obliged, if you could be of help in getting business for incubatees in areas like (a) `Analytics outsourcing – BFSI, Market Research, Clinical trial’ verticals (b) Computational Fluid Dynamics (c) Embedded systems, .net technology, SaaS wares, E-Commerce solutions and the list goes on…!
Best wishes,
Hi there,
My name is Murthy – I’m a young indian american professional in the US – undergraduate at MIT, graduate work at Stanford, currently working in Silicon Valley in strategy and marketing, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time networking with the VC community here and am interested in this emerging area of indian entreprenuership. Unfortunately, I am not yet a “senior” professional, but am at the top of my own young professional group in terms of knowledge of technology and business – would love to correspond with a few business leaders in India regarding your challenges in starting up new ventures in India, and opportunities for young professionals who have access to american corporate relationships, familiarity with Silicon Valley business, etc, to support this emerging area. What are the key problems and constraints you are facing today? Is it access to venture capital? Is it management leadership? Is it global expertise? I’m curious what your opinions are and would love to correspond with individuals in India. Best of luck.
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Since then I have been busy with KIPL.Net – we are the most innovative and quality focused mobile content developers based in Singapore and Bombay, India.
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I am sure you will clearly be able to differentiate us from other content players. Kindly do check our Mobile content presentation on the two (2) URL’s given below very carefully as the same will give you an idea on our Mobile content quality.
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