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1. Elevar raises $70 mn in second equity fund

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   Elevar raises $70 mn in second equity fundLivemintAbout 60-70% of this fund would be invested in India. The investments would be of $1-5 million for minority stakes in firms “providing high-volume, ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Elevar   MFI   Vineet Rai

2. SKS Microfinance gets venture capitalists as promoters for IPO

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   SKS Microfinance gets venture capitalists as promoters for IPOLivemintMumbai: In a first of its kind, a group of four venture capitalists led by Sequoia Capital India has become the promoter of SKS Microfinance Ltd, ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandstone Capital   Sebi   MFI

3. Janalakshmi Financial raises $10 million

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   Janalakshmi Financial raises $10 millionLivemintFormer Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund Inc. head Narayan Ramachandran, who has joined JFS's board, also invested in his personal capacity. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   MFI   Narayan Ramachandran   Pte Ltd

4. CAs helping PE, venture capital companies get midsize deals

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   CAs helping PE, venture capital companies get midsize dealsLivemintZephyr Peacock India Fund, focused on small and medium enterprises, has built up such ties with CA networks in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, which aren't ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   IDG Ventures India   Draper Fisher Jurvetson India   Bejul Somaia

5. Big-ticket PE deals make strong comeback after a slow year

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   Big-ticket PE deals make strong comeback after a slow yearLivemintIn the past six months, Sequoia Capital India, Fidelity Investments Holdings and Baring Private Equity Partners Asia Ltd together made a $55 million ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sequoia Capital India   TPG   Shraddha Nair

6. Microsoft India rolls out BizSpark One

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   Microsoft India rolls out BizSpark OneLivemint“It takes us one step closer to offering financial resources to deserving young companies,” said Mohanjit Jolly, executive director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sekar Vembu   Deepti Chaudhary   Microsoft

7. Sequoia buys 10% in Equitas from Kalpathi

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   Sequoia buys 10% in Equitas from KalpathiLivemintThis will be Sequoia's third investment in India's microfinance space in less than three years. In March 2007, it invested $11.5 million in the country's ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Equitas   Sequoia Capital India   Kalpathi Suresh

8. Sequoia to invest in online travel agency

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   Sequoia to invest in online travel agencyLivemintNew Delhi/Bangalore: Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India has invested around $10 million (Rs46 crore) in online travel agency Via. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Madhav A. Chanchani   Sequoia Capital India   Vinay Gupta

9. Investors happy as microfinance lenders discipline growth

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   Investors happy as microfinance lenders discipline growthLivemint“As investors, we love growth,” said Sumir Chadha, managing director, Sequoia Capital India, which has invested in a few MFIs. “But in the lending business, ...and more » (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Deepti Chaudhary   MFI   Baskar Babu

10. IYogi raises $15 mn from US-based VC firm, three others

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    IYogi raises $15 mn from US-based VC firm, three othersLivemintDraper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, a US-based early-stage venture capital firm, contributed $9 million in the latest deal. DFJ, which recently said it would ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Uday Challu   SVB India Capital Partners   Mohanjit Jolly

11. Manappuram aims to raise Rs300 cr through QIP

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    Manappuram aims to raise Rs300 cr through QIPLivemintThe company saw foreign direct investment of more than Rs170 crore during the last two years through private equity firms Sequoia Capital, India Equity ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   QIP   Sequoia Capital India   Manappuram

12. VC companies adopt the blended approach to funding

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    VC companies adopt the blended approach to fundingLivemintPositive note: Mohanjit Jolly of Draper Fisher Jurvetson India. The company is looking at growth-stage deals in India. Hemant Mishra / Mint “If investors ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Shraddha Nair   Rajesh Subramaniam   Deepti Chaudhary

13. Draper Fisher to raise $400 mn for start-ups

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    Draper Fisher to raise $400 mn for start-upsLivemintDFJ, which is primarily an early stage investor, puts money into the US, India and China from a global fund. With one of the biggest portfolios of investee ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   3i Group plc   Deepti Chaudhary   Mohanjit Jolly

14. The wisdom of crowdsourcing

    Explore Article livemint.com (Nov 24 2009)

    The wisdom of crowdsourcingLivemintWikipedia, it's often said, is a success story of Web 2.0's democratizing power. It's hugely popular, free, and relies on an army of eager Average ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   The Wall Street Journal

15. Mchek Aims To Grow 10-Fold In Five Years

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    mchek aims to grow 10-fold in five yearsLivemintBangalore: Sanjay Swamy has hit it off with the big daddies of telecom and banking— Bharti Airtel Ltd, State Bank of India and ICICI Bank Ltd—offering their ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Airtel   Sanjay Swamy   Tata DocoMo

16. Funding, shoring up balance sheet has been the biggest challenge

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    Funding, shoring up balance sheet has been the biggest challengeLivemintAccording to KP Balaraj, managing director of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India, which invested in the company in 2007, lenders tend to expand ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bombay Stock Exchange   V.P. Nandakumar   Sequoia Capital India

17. VC firms' new mantra: preserve your capital

    Explore Article livemint.com (Nov 2 2009) Acquisition , Funding

    VC firms' new mantra: preserve your capitalLivemintB versus A: Nexus India Capital co-founder Suvir Sujan says there are only a handful of VCs doing early-stage investments in India. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Goldman Sachs   Mohanjit Jolly   Sohil Chand

18. Helion aims to be among the top three in India

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    Helion aims to be among the top three in IndiaLivemintHemant Mishra / Mint Gupta, 42, started Helion, among India's earliest country-focused funds, when local entrepreneurs were just waking up to the concept. ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Deepti Chaudhary   Stanford University   Indian Institute of Technology

19. Changed Indian landscape forces foreign PE firms to exit

    Explore Article livemint.com (Oct 27 2009)

    Changed Indian landscape forces foreign PE firms to exitLivemintThe only consolidation so far in India's PE market has been global venture capital firm Sequoia Capital's takeover of Mauritius-based Indian venture capital ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Raja Kumar   Deepti Chaudhary   UTI Ventures

20. VC companies facing lower returns, pressure for early exits

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    VC companies facing lower returns, pressure for early exitsLivemintBangalore: The economic downturn has affected India's venture capital (VC) firms because the companies they have invested in are performing below ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Kanwaljit Singh   Deepti Chaudhary   Norwest Venture Partners India

21. Manappuram Finance to raise Rs400 cr

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    Manappuram Finance to raise Rs400 crLivemintPTI Mumbai: “Manappuram General Finance and Leasing Ltd (MAGFIL), the only listed gold loan company in India, is planning to raise Rs400 crore before the ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Manappuram Finance   FDI   Leasing Ltd

22. Orkut losing to Facebook in battle for market share in India

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    Orkut losing to Facebook in battle for market share in IndiaLivemintAccording to data by vizisense, a unit of Komli Media Pvt. Ltd, the number of unique users per month for Orkut dropped from 16.95 million in June to 14.7 ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Komli   Sidharth Rao   WebChutney

23. Gmail emerges as top India email service dislodging Yahoo

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    Gmail emerges as top India email service dislodging YahooLivemint... has helped strengthen Gmail's usage,” said Prashant Mehta, chief operating officer of Komli Media Pvt. Ltd, an Internet ad agency that owns ViziSense. ...and more » (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Komli   Yahoo   Gmail

24. VCs avoid new deals to conserve cash for existing portfolio firms

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    VCs avoid new deals to conserve cash for existing portfolio firmsLivemintThe five most active investors this year have been Helion Venture Partners, Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd, Intel Capital, Nexus India Capital and Accel ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Srikanth Narasimhan   Deepti Chaudhary   Alok Mittal

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