TeliBrahma headed by Suresh Narasimha received $2 million as its Series A funding. Inventus Capital Partners, a VC firm headed by Kanwal Rekhi invested $1 million and with this investment Kanwal and his team make their first investment in India. I have an interview with Kanwal, where he talks about his new company Inventus and [...]
Archive for September, 2008
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas
I am back on the road again as the famous Willie Nelson song goes. Broadband has been restored and laptop has been fixed, which means I will be ramping up slowly and get back to my regular schedule.
What a month this has been. To say that September has been an eventful month would be an [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital
Watch out for an announcment of two Bangalore-based companies that have got funded by two Silicon Valley-based VC firms that have connections to India. One of them is in the mobile space and the other is in cleantech space.
Like one on the VCs pointed out cleantech in India will mean a totally different thing when [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison
Thanks for stopping by. The broadband issue is being sorted and I hope to be back in action by end of this week. I guess it does not help that my trusty laptop also decided to go on the blink! Murphy is operating in full force, and instead of letting his law take over my [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 12th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Technology, Venture Capital
Earlier today I spent a couple of hours talking to Yogen Dalal, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund. Yes, I was there to interview him, and he was such a gracious host and spent an extra hour talking on a whole range of topics not directly related to the interview. Yogen is a fascinating conversationalist and I [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison
Terribly sorry about this but my broadband problems have put a spanner or a money wrench in my work. What this means is that I cannot upload any of the audio files too like the second part of the interview with Anil Raj of VNL and others. But, the good news is that we have [...]