A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Venture Capital’
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, San Francisco, Technology, Venture Capital
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Americas, Bombay/Mumbai, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Venture Capital
Invariably when a first time visitor drives down highway 101, the main artery to Silicon Valley their first question is: Where is Silicon Valley? I don’t see any tall buildings? Well, there are a few tall buildings you can spot, but for most part Silicon Valley consists of low, mostly 2-storey nondescript office buildings that are home to many, many [...]
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 • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube Videos
Last week BlogHer, a community of women bloggers, made two major announcements. It received $5 million in funding from Peacock Equity and Venrock, a returning investor. Peacock Equity was co-founded in 2007 by GE Commercial Finance’s Media Communications and Entertainment business and NBC Universal.