Archives for the ‘VC & Private Equity Funding’ Category

NEA’s Ravi Viswanathan on CleanTech and Building Companies

By kamla bhatt • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
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Ravi Viswanathan is a partner in New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a prominent venture capital firm headquartered on the East Coast with a strong presence in Silicon Valley. NEA has committed capital of about $8.5 billion and has invested in over 550 companies with over 160 that have gone public.
Ravi joined NEA in 2004 […]



In Conversation With Vivek Paul of TPG

By kamla bhatt • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
 In Conversation With Vivek Paul of TPG: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Vivek Paul is partner at TPG, a private equity company that is ranked as one of top PE firms in the world. According to Hoover TPG holdings include stakes in Notable Neiman Marcus (high end department store) Ducati (Italian motorcycle company) Lenovo and SunGard Data Systems among others.
Vivek has been […]



Entrepreneurial Dean: Pradeep Khosla of CMU

By kamla bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, India, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
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“Never assume that high risk means high pay-offs.” Meet Dr. Pradeep Khosla, Dean of College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a premier research university located in Pittsburgh. It is not very often that you come across an entrepreneurial dean who talks about research and the passion and risks involved as an entrepreneur. […]



Amit Shah of Artiman Ventures on Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital in India

By kamla bhatt • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, VC & Private Equity Funding
 
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Amit Shah of Artiman Ventures is an entrepreneur turned investor based in Silicon Valley. He was one of the early cross border investors who believed in the India story. When the Indian economy opened up in 1992, Amit came down from Silicon Valley and started a business in Mumbai in 1993.
Last month I caught […]