Over $5.56 billion was invested across 452 Indian tech start-ups during the period January-June 2017. While in Q1 2017 about $1.46 billion was invested across 206 start-ups, Q2 witnessed 217 deals amounting to $4.1 billion in funding.
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‘Start-ups shouldn’t feel entitled to investments’
Bengaluru: Start-ups have to be clear about the need for venture-capital funds and should get out of the entitlement mentality, said Shalini Prakash, Venture Partner, 500 Startups, at an investor insight event held by global start-up community Startup Grind. Sharing insights to a group of entrepr…
Fynd secures $500k in follow on Series A funding from Rocketship
Mumbai-based e-Commerce fashion platform Fynd has raised $500,000 in a follow-on Series A funding round from Silicon Valley-based Rocketship. Rocketship is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies using models built through data science. The firm’s founders, Venky Harinarayan an…
‘Venture capital market poised to be on a high growth trajectory in Q2’2017’
2016 has been a good year with uncertainty waning in the US. According to Venture Pulse, a quarterly report on global VC trends published by KPMG, there are signs of optimism in the venture capital (VC) market as total investment in the first quarter of 2017 by US VC-backed companies reached $17.…
No good start-up will starve to death: Sanjay Swami of Prime Venture Partners
Prime Venture Partners, formerly Angel Prime, is a venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage start-ups, and looks for companies that don’t just need capital but also mentoring. Prime has a number of investments in the fintech space, and it’s well-known for its highly-engaged ap…
SMBs & start-ups would be responsible for much larger share of “corporate functions”
The 20th century was the era of the large corporations. It can be argued that the growth of the market economies of the West, and in recent decades the Asian Tigers and China, was closely correlated with, if not driven by, the growth of their business houses. Conglomerates such as General Electri…
स्टार्टअप्स में निवेश करने वाले PE और VC फंड्स को टैक्स में छूट मिलेगी
स्टार्टअप में पैसा लगाने वाले प्राइवेट इक्विटी (PE) और वेंचर कैपिटल (VC) फंड्स को टैक्स में छूट मिलेगी। अनलिस्टेड शेयरों से होने वाली इनकम के ट्रांसफर को बिजनस इनकम नहीं बल्कि कैपिटल गेंस माना जाएगा, भले ही उससे कंट्रोल ट्रांसफर या मैनेजमेंट चेंज हुआ हो। ऐसे मामले में कई फंड्स को इनकम टैक्स अथॉरि…
India hot-spot market for PE, VC: Singapore VC & PE Assoc
India is a significant market for venture capitalists and private equities for placing investments in start-ups, a senior industry official said. “We see an average of USD 1 billion a year being invested in Indian start-ups by Singapore-based venture capitalists (VCs) and (private equities)…
MIT startup workshop from March 21-23
Massachusetts Institute of Technology would be organising a Global Startup Workshop in the city from March 21 to 23. The three-day workshop which is powered by KGS Advisors LLP (KGS), core partner Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs (COWE) and Host Partner Catalyzer, will be attended by 400 star…