Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Technology’

By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital

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 […]


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 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 4th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Technology, Video

How is innovation different today? Are there a new set of dynamics at work? Are the days of mass production over? Is the new trend in innovation more about personalization?  Have we entered a new age of innovation that is very different from the 19th and 20th century industrial mindset that treated
consumers as an undifferentiated […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology

Just a couple of months I did a Q&A with Deepak Shenoy of Moneyoga and their online business model for their financial startup. Deepak was quite gung-ho about his startup and was looking to raise money. But, within a few weeks of publishing the interview I got a note from Deepak that they had to […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Events, Ideas, India, Technology, Web 2.0

LiveJournal, an open source blogging platform is expanding its footprint in India and recently launched a community for their users in India. LiveJournal has ambitious plans for localization by providing translation and multilingual interfaces to its bloggers and readers. While English is the dominant language for Indian bloggers there has been an increase in the […]


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