It was an interesting day at TiECon Delhi today. Some quick observations: 1. VCs are everywhere! I think there were more VC firms in presence than aspiring entrepreneurs! This is of course great news for the local startup scene. VCs were lamenting on lack of quality entrpreneurship. A few moderators and speakers took light hearted […]

Channelnewsasia has done a profile coverage with me, and that has some good perspective on what we might do as Canaan Partners in India. If you have access to the channel, they are going to telecast this half hour show at following times: Singapore: Monday 9.30pm Repeat telecasts: Tuesday 12.30am & 12.30pm, Wednesday 4.30pm Regional: […]

Would love to meet any folks on venturewoods who might be there too! Pls respond to this post and I’ll get the notification. 0

Redherring has announced the final 100 for this year — there are 23 Indian companies 24/7 Customer, 24×7 Learning, ACL Wireless, Advanced Radio Engineering, Avestha Gen, ConvergeLabs, Coruscant, Drishtee, Esqube Communications, Evalueserve, Indiaideas, Naukri, Innoviti, makemytrip, mauj telecom, mobile2win, NeoAccel, n-logue communications, Novatium Solutions, Ocimum Biosolutions, People Interactive, SoftJin, Toonz Animation Remember, you saw it […]

Momo Delhi had their first event yesterday. Great show, and I hope this become an ongoing activity. Personally, I would prefer a more discussion oriented format — 5-6 10 minute presentations on new ideas, and then one specific discussion, with participants who can rip apart that topic, and something thats actionable. I was part of […]

First Consumer Services Risk Capital Fund in India Matrix Partners India, co–founded by Avnish Bajaj and Rishi Navani in partnership with Matrix Partners US, today announced the closing of its first fund. The $150 million, multi-sector, multi-stage fund will focus on early to growth stage businesses in the Internet, mobile, financial services, media & entertainment, […]

Canaan Partners Makes Investment in New India Office Canaan Teams with Yahoo! Inc. in an $8.6 Million Investment in Bharat Matrimony, an Online Marriage Service Canaan Partners, a leading international venture capital firm, today announced the funding of Bharat Matrimony Group, the leading online matrimonial service in India. This is an exciting new investment by […]

We are organising Mobile Monday (MoMo for short) – a meetup for mobile enthusiasts from every sphere of the mobile ecosystem like telecom companies, content aggregators, VAS providers, application developers etc. It’s a day long event and would bring in people from diverse backgrounds followed by presentations, demos and interactive sessions. MoMos have been quite […]

Leading Venture Capital Firms Invest in an Accelerated Growth Plan for The World’s Most Popular Open Source BI Suite Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular Open Source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that it has received an additional $8M in funding in order to further fuel its accelerated growth. Pentaho’s existing investors, […]

Arun Kumar, President and MD, Flextronics Software, and a great inspiration for the techpreneur community in India/US passed away in San Diego, USA on July 7, 2006. While the details of how a routine checkup, and an angioplasty became a threat to his life are still unclear, it just reminds us how fragile life really […]

Naukri has filed for IPO with Sebi — here’s the filing. Big congratulations to the team for making it happen. Sanjeev has been a diehard believer in the internet and that is what has brought the company to this stage. What I also like is that wealth has been shared generously with the team — […]

Kalpana from Red Herring has invited applications for Red Herring 100 Asia awards: If you know of any privately held companies who need to be on the Red Herring 100 Asia list, please tell them to apply before June 16 for the awards. They can find the application form here: http://www.herringevents.com/rhasia06/index.jsp?section=rh100 To my question of […]