http://www.startupavenues.com/news Network of Entrepreneurs Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:33:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Calcutta has announced its business plan competition- i2I 2008 - "ideas to Implementation 2008" which is being held in association with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), National Entrepreneurship network (NEN), and Seedfund. This business plan contest is open to not only students but also ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/12/10/iim-calcutta-launched-business-plan-competition-i2i-2008-inr-1-cr-as-seed-funding/ mGinger, a permission based mobile advertising network has received $2 million funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and NEA-IndoUS Ventures. The company will use the fund for its business growth, build up their technology stack and ramp up their marketing and sales force. mGinger enables advertisements including offers, vouchers, news and ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/11/28/dfj-and-nea-indous-ventures-put-usd-2-mn-in-mginger/ GVK Biosciences Private Limited (GVK BIO), a Pharma & Biotech research and development outsourcing company, today announced that Sequoia Capital a leading global private investment firm has invested Rs.100 crores in GVK BIO. GVK BIO started operations in 2001 at Hyderabad and has established itself as a leading Contract Research ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/11/27/sequoia-capital-invests-inr-100-cr-in-gvk-pharma/ Ticketvala.com, a portal for bus ticket booking has raised USD 2 mn from FootPrint ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, based out of India as per report published in Mint. Ticketvala, headed by Harnath Lokanadham, aim to capture the unorganized bus ticketing system in India as road transport in India ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/11/25/online-bus-ticket-portal-tickvala-raises-usd-2-mn-from-footprint-ventures/ Indian software product company, InstaColl today announces the launch of Live Documents, a hybrid online-offline Office suite of applications. Instacoll which is led by Sabeer Bhaita, has earlier raised funding from Softbank (read Sabeer Bhatia back to business, Instacoll raises funding from Softbank). Live Documents is a full-featured suite of online Office ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/11/24/sabeer-bhatia-backed-instacoll-launches-online-office-suite/ Indian digital media space seems to be in thick of action. After acquisition of Quasar media by WPP, Webchutney, known for its creative virals (Webchutney, headquartered at Delhi with offices at Mumbai, Bangalore and KualaLumpur is an online ad agency operating in interactive media, web development and web analytics), has ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/11/23/capital18-invests-in-webchutney/ Firefly e-Ventures Ltd., the wholly-owned Internet subsidiary of HT Media Ltd., has acquired social networking site, Desimartini.com, as per the news reported in Hindustan Times. Though the financial terms are not disclosed, HT Media said that the deal was for less than US $ 10 Million (Rs. 39.3 Crores), which ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/11/21/ht-media-acquires-desimartinicom/ Internet web giant (or web giant of yore) Yahoo! has announced that it had taken around 35% stake in an Indian web advertising company Tyroo for an undisclosed amount. Tyroo Media Pvt Ltd is one of the leading Indian self serve ad marketplace and has around 1000 publishers as its clients. ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/07/23/yahoo-enters-indian-advertising-space-through-tyroo/ Nexus India Capital (website) has closed a $100M Venture Capital Fund to invest in opportunities across sectors in India. Nexus plans to invest in both technology start-ups as well as companies with business models not driven by technology. The funds investors include top tier institutions and strategic family ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/07/14/nexus-india-capital-raises-100m-venture-capital-fund/ StartupAvenues : Offline meet at Delhi Finally it happened, after too many misses, delayed email responses etc etc and after a gap of almost 3 years, StartupAvenues offline meeting did happen at Connaught place New Delhi and surprisingly of the total attendance, three people namely Umesh Sethi, Nalin Savera & Shailesh ... http://www.startupavenues.com/news/2007/07/09/startupavenues-offline-meet-30th-june-2007-new-delhi/