Mahesh Murthy teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob to set up Seedfund in 2005, which is a leading early-stage venture capital fund with marquee investments, including Carwale, RedBus, MyDentist, Chumbak, AFAQs, and Vaatsalya. The trio was passionate about the internet boom and with gian…
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TiECON Chandigarh to bring budding entrepreneurs & brightest business minds under one roof
The Chandigarh chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global not-for-profit organisation fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, education, and networking, will organise a two-day professional and networking conference for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs — TiECON — in the city from F…
India’s start-up story: What works and what doesn’t?
Participating in a debate on ‘India’s Startup Story: Where Do We Go From Here?’, Mahesh Murthy, Co-Founder of Seedfund, said startups, which get launched when the markets are doing well, can sometimes lead to a false sense of security. Rajiv Lochan, the MD & CEO of The Hindu Group, who modera…
LIC, pension funds should be allowed to invest in start-ups: Experts
Top fund managers and start-up veterans pushed for increasing the domestic capital pool by removing investment restrictions on insurance companies and pension funds. They felt even a fraction of investible funds from these behemoths could bring in a lot more funds than what the government is dire…