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Venture Intelligence India

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Tracking High Technology industry issues with special focus on India and Indian founded companies worldwide.

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VC Workshop at PanIIT Conference

The PanIIT Association and the Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) are organizing a conclave for partners of VC/PE firms titled "Building the human side of a VC/PE firm - The institutionalizing steps" The workshop will be conducted by - Prof David Brophy, Director of the Center for Venture Capital & Private Equity Finance, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor and - Ms. Anne-Maree Byworth, a

Foundation Course in Private Equity & Venture Capital

ADVERTISEMENT Indian Venture Capital Association in partnership with European Venture Capital Association is conducting a Foundation Course in Private Equity & Venture Capital December 1-3, ‘08; Delhi • Develop your professional skills • Learn from the experience of senior industry practitioners • Build relationships with other professionals As part of IVCA’s role to facilitate

BRIC Entrepreneurs Debate Impact of Financial Tsunami

Knowledge@Wharton has an interesting discussion (available also in audio) featuring entrepreneurs from BRIC countries - Shiv Khemka of the India- and Russia-based SUN Group; Silas Chou of HK-based Novel Holdings and Odemiro Fonseca of Brazil's Viena Rio Restaurantes. Khemka: From an Indian point of view, clearly export sectors will be affected. The real estate sector has taken a very severe

Valuing Dotcoms in Today's Environment

Alok Mittal has triggered a discussion on VentureWoods on valuing Internet start-ups in the current environment when the enterprise value of a leading listed player like Rediff.com is just $24 million. As a bellwether for Indian internet industry, these numbers reset expectations on the entire sector and near term expectations. Naukri is just over $200M on EV, which I do believe is healthy

"Infrastructure investments will lead recovery"

Pankaj Dhandharia, Partner,Transaction Advisory Services, E&Y; writes in The Economic Times how pent up infrastructure demand and attractive valuations will lead a slow-but-steady pick-up in PE investments. With significant investment needed, the Indian infrastructure segment offers great opportunity. There are several infrastructure projects which are yet to achieve financial closure. As the

"Climate for PE investments more attractive"

Sandeep Singhal of Nexus India Capital, which has recently closed its second fund, writes in the Economic Times how VC investors are now facing far less competition. Short-term earning hits from capacity expansion or MTM hedging losses, or selling due to redemption pressures, are less relevant for PE. Marginal and less value-added capital has departed and a more rational and less competitive

Social Networking, anyone?

Business Today has conducted a survey on the usage of social networking sites in India. ...there are already an estimated 17 million Indians who visit or use social networks. “This number is bound to grow once Orkut starts actively marketing in India. So, India is not yet in the top 10 globally, but should be by next year,” says Mahesh Murthy, Founder, Pinstorm, which is an independent digital

Will UTV's new businesses fire?

Business Today has a profile of the new initiatives of media group UTV. (Interactive, gaming & Internet) is a relatively new business for UTV, and it has grown through acquisitions. In 2007, it bought out UK-based Ignition Entertainment and the India-based Indiagames. Ignition develops and publishes games for leading consoles, whereas Indiagames is a mobile and online gaming player. More

ET interview with ChrysCapital's Sanjiv Kaul

Economic Times has an interview with ChrysCapital MD Sanjiv Kaul, who is also an expert on the pharmaceuticals sector. Valuations across most sectors now look attractive for a prospective PE investor. But entrepreneurs still need to reconcile to the changed paradigm of a downsized market capitalisation. With debt instruments being scarce and costly, IPOs not being the current flavour of the

Blackstone COO on investing in India

The Economic Times has an interview with Hamilton James, President & COO of Blackstone. Yes, valuations in India are down by almost two-thirds. Besides, many companies, which wanted to go public earlier can’t do that, as the stock market is down and many companies will have a hard time borrowing. So, this is a good opportunity for private equity (PE) companies like us for investments. ...We

U.S. Bailout Tombstone

Via Paul Kedrosky Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of information and networking services to the private equity and venture capital ecosystem in India. View free samples of Venture Intelligence newsletters and reports. Email the author at arun@ventureintelligence.in

"2009: The Year of Collapse for Indian Real Estate"

Stock market investor and trader Deepak Shenoy who had a very accurate prediction for markets in 2008 has come up with another for 2009. Here are some of his going forward predictions:If 2008 was about world drama, 2009 will be about the collapse of the Great Indian Real Estate Story. Prices will start coming down, though it may take a full year for panic to set in. At least one real estate

Ashamed of being a Wall Streeter?

From the "Dear Lucy" career advise column in Financial Times. At a dinner party last Saturday I was asked by a fellow guest what I did and I said I was an investment banker. I might as well have said I was a paedophile. Suddenly the whole table – all friends of my wife from the art world – turned on me with such venom I was really taken aback. I tried to defend myself by saying that I had nothing

Policy Confusion in the Air

In an article for The Economic Times, Suhel Seth, an advisor to British Airways, points out the problem facing Indian airlines has more to do inaction on "vital but unpopular steps" on the policy front, including "day-light robbery" by PSU oil firms on the ATF pricing front. States in India are levying a state sales tax of 25% to 32% on ATF (aviation turbine fuel). But the catch is not just the

"M&A landscape to alter significantly"

Moneycontrol.com has a video interview with Ashok Wadhwa, MD of Ambit and Sumanth Sinha, COO, Suzlon Energy, on the drying up of deal activity. Both panelists agreed that more transactions that are still on the table are likely to get renegotiated on account of falling valuations and the derailing of the financing plans for the deals. Wadhwa: Pure-cash buyout transactions will not happen for a

Correction in Valuations a Positive for PE: Adveq CEO

AltAssets reports on the Swiss-headquartered PE fund-of-funds manager's annual press conference in Frankfurt. The current global financial crisis will impact private equity in three waves: firstly, through a correction of EBITDA multiples in the short term; secondly, through a contraction in corporate earnings caused by a reduction in GDP growth rates; and thirdly, through some companies' need to

"Freeing Up Education Key to Avoiding Demographic Disaster"

In an article for The Economic Times, Janmejaya Sinha, MD at The Boston Consulting Group India, makes a passionate and stats-filled case for an urgent freeing up of the Education sector in order to prevent India's "demographic dividend" from turning into a curse. India's workforce today has 484 million people. Of these 273 million are working in rural areas primarily in agriculture (many of them

Why aren't there more Shankar Sharmas?

On the "Samvat 2065" show on CNBC-TV18, Samir Arora of Helios Capital Management pointed out something I've been thinking of frequently in recent months: why are there so few market experts (at least on TV) whose opinions are as bold and more importantly, as reasonably accurate, as that of First Global's Shankar Sharma. Arora: We cannot talk about Shankar because he has been right most of this

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala vs. Shankar Sharma

Normally, Samir Arora of Helios Capital Management makes for good TV. Not on the "Samvat 2065" program on CNBC-TV18 though. The often volatile sparring between his co-panelists - well known stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Shankar Sharma of First Global Services - on Diwali day, made the normally outspoken Arora seem quite staid. Some of the issues the two disagreed strongly on

"The scope for PE is much larger"

In a column for The Mint, Govind Sankaranarayanan, CFO of Tata Capital, says the current tough environment for capital raising is likely to spur Private Equity investments in India. Somewhat disappointingly, although there have been some high visibility transactions in 2007, many prospective companies remain untapped. As one who has been on the buy side of a few private transactions, I can attest

Why the Oracle of Omaha is buying now

From Warren Buffet's NY Times article. I can’t predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven’t the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month — or a year — from now. What is likely, however, is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over.

"Calling all PMI experts"

TheDeal.com has a couple of posts highlighting the huge demand thrown up by the various gun shot weddings in the US financial sector. The expanding financial crisis is not only completely remapping the world of finance, it's also forcing a rewrite of the traditional rules of integration. Most strategic consultants agree that post-merger integration issues covering IT systems, personnel, training

"Shrinking of Wall St. Isn't a Bad Thing"

Fareed Zakaria has a thoughtful article in Newsweek on the silver linings in the dark cloud that hangs over the USA. Two decades of easy money and innovative financial products meant that virtually anyone could borrow any amount of money for any purpose. If we wanted a bigger house, a better TV or a faster car, and we didn't actually have the money to pay for it, no problem. We put it on a credit

Making a success of Contract Farming

Businessworld profiles a few companies that have made a success of contract farming. Most retail firms — from Reliance Retail through More (the Birlas’ chain) to Food Bazaar — have not been very successful in either building the infrastructure or integrating the supply chains. But a clutch of other firms that has focused on one end — contract farming as a method of sourcing produce — has found

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