Ashish Gupta: Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in India Part-1
By kamla bhatt • Jan 3rd, 2008Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, VC & Private Equity Funding
Ashish Gupta is co-founder of Helion Venture Partners, a India focused venture capital firm with a $140 million venture fund. Helion has 11 portfolio companies out of which five of the investments are in outsourcing space and two investments each in Internet, mobile and product companies. In 2007 the average deal size was in the range of $2-6 million.
Ashish is an entrepreneur turned investor and is one of the few investors to have had a successful exit in India. He was an early investor in Daksh that got acquired by IBM. He has invested in over 30 companies as an angel and a VC and sits on the boards of Kirusa, Naukri and others.
In Part-1 of our conversation Ashish talks about Helion’s investment strategy and shares his views about startups, venture capital and entrepreneurship in India. These are exciting times to be an entrepreneur in India according to Ashish. Tune in to find out what Ashish has to say about startups, mentoring entrepreneurs and how things have changed in India compared to the 1980s.
This interview is part of a series featuring two venture capitalists who share their views about venture capital, entrepreneurship and startups in India.
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
[...] You can listen to Part-1 and Part-2 of the conversation with Ashish. Technorati tags: ashish gupta, helion venture partners, entrepreneurship, innovation in india, venture capital in india, start-ups in india, entrepreneurship in india, bangalore, india, rural opportunities in india, technology Bookmark with:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
[...] In Part-1 of the interview we cover Helion’s investment strategy in India, and innovation and entrepreneurship in India. Ashish is one of the few investors who has had a successful exit in India. This was through his investment in Daksh, a BPO company that was acquired by IBM. [...]
You are so humble and every of your conversation reflect that, What a great person.
[...] a series of conversation that I recorded with Ashish towards the end of 2007 in Bangalore, India. Ashish Gupta on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in India Part-1, Part-2 and [...]