PE Investments in first 9 months of 2011 surpasses entire of 2010 as deal sizes grow significantlyPrivate Equity firms invested about $2,249 million across 98 deals during the quarter ended September 2011, according to a study by Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a research service focused on Private Equity and M&A transaction activity in the country. The latest figures
Edited excerpts from the Press Release:NYSE-listed Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, has agreed to acquire privately held Gluster, Inc, a leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions for standardizing the management of unstructured data, for approximately $136 million in cash. As part of the transaction, Red Hat will also
Extract from an Economic Times article by Manish Kanchan, Managing Director of SAGE Capital.Very often we see entrepreneurs consulting with well wishers, old-time chartered accountants or their loyal CFOs during the deal-making process. Usually this is the first time anybody is dealing with private equity transactions and are therefore completely out of their depths. Sometimes, they are also
Economic Times has a profile of the entrepreneurial story of Bangalore-based “Customer Experience Management” Software firm CustomerXPs.Though the team was in place, it took us over a year to develop the first sample. By January 2008, we started taking feedback from prospective clients and realised that the product was becoming very complex. That’s when we started interacting with Sharad Hegde,
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Business Standard has an article on Indiagames’ future under Walt Disney (which is in the process of taking over Indiagames’ current parent, UTV) Today, Indiagames works with original equipment manufacturers (OEM) as well as telcos like Tata Docomo, Uninor, and Idea. Large accounts like Airtel and Vodafone have grown 24 per cent year-on-year in FY2011. App stores have also fuelled the firms
From the Press Release: Starting Up, ET NOWs show on India’s start-up ecosystem, with an objective to promote and generate awareness on entrepreneurship & entrepreneurial skills in India; visits the MIT School of Business to conduct a one day special workshop titled ‘Starting Up @ MIT’. The entire session will be recorded by the MIT Team & the videos will then be uploaded onto their online
From the press release:Taurus Flexibles have announced their strategic association with Spain based Cikautxo s. Coop and Mondragon S. Coop to augment the manufacturing of rubber and plastic hoses for the automotive segment for international and domestic markets. This tie-up is being achieved by the acquisition of 50% stake in Taurus wholly owned EOU subsidiary in Pune created from the transfer
From the cover story profiling 7 leading VC firms: Helion Ventures, Nexus Ventures, IndoUS Ventures, IDG Ventures India, Accel India, Inventus Capital and Canaan Partners.During 2004-10, venture capitalists invested $3.96 billion in Indian startups. Another $621 million has been invested this year, according to Chennai-based research firm Venture Intelligence. There is an established line of VC