Quintessential entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia is back to business and has raised first round funding from Softbank for InstaColl. InstaColl's collaboration solutions provide businesses secure, online working relationships with key customers and partners,...

The Asia Semi-Final of the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is being organized by the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, on March 9 & 10, 2007. The competition has attracted over 200 social business plans from the Asia – Pacific...

It looks like that Indian Internet portal Rediff.com (NASDAQ : REDF ) has taken a cue from Domain booking & Web Hosting company Godaddy (Godaddy’s commercial during Superbowl was banned due to wardrobe malfunction and thus created quite a controversy...

In a press release, IVCA (INDIAN VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION) has condemned Finance Minister’s Budget proposal regarding taxation of Domestic funds and called these steps as regressive and retrograde. IVCA has said that the said proposal with regard...

New Ventures India in association with CII, YES Bank and Exim Bank is organising a Business Plan competition for for Sustainable Enterprises. The winning entries will get a investment of INR 50 lakh to INR 25 Crore ( INR 5 million to INR 250...

Does the present Congress led govt has something against entrepreneurs ?? If one goes by the series of events has they have unfolded in past 2 years then it does look like that Govt is not very fond of venture funds and entrepreneurs. Earlier the...

GVFL ( formerly known as Gujarat Venture Finance Ltd) has gone into early stage investment and has invested INR 80 million 8 million in RapidRadio solutions a company incubated by Nirma Labs. RapidRadio marks GVFL’s first investment in a start-up...

During my MBA days, mission vision statement was considered to be the biggest crap you can dish out in Strategy class and on the very mention of the word “Vision statement”, the mind used to go for a toss and eyelids used to feel heavy and we used to...

In a surprise move and first of its kind in the word, Google inc has invested in two early stage venture funds namely Seed Fund and Erasmic Venture Fund. In a news published in ET, Samir Sood, head (corporate development - South Asia), Google. India...

Google has moved into “in-game ad market, with the acquisition of Adscape for USD 23 million as per the report in E-Consultancy. Adscape Media, based in San Francisco, Calif., was funded by H.I.G. Ventures. Adscape Media is an in-game advertising...