Canaan is pleased to announce its ninth fund – a $600M global early stage tech oriented fund. We will continue to invest in healthcare and IT, and across US, Israel and India. Details here.
India Venture 2012 – What’s Ahead?
Happy 2012 to all readers. 2011 has been an eventful year for venture capital in India – perhaps a record year in terms of overall volume of financing. More importantly, traditional growth equity firms stepped in and provided later stage support to venture backed companies, which augers well for entrepreneurs and venture industry. While in […]
Angel Investors’ Roundtable
Canaan hosted an angel investor roundtable on sidelines of Nasscom Emerge event in Bangalore last month. Key observations: Financing pyramid and implications: It seems that angels perceive an increasing cycle to get to next round of (VC) financing.This is increasing the load on angel investors, as well as potentially increasing the risk. Some angel investors […]
Call from JFDI Asia
Heard about Y-combinator or TechStars? Well now there’s JFDI.Asia. We are the first TechStars Network member in South East Asia. We will select 15 startups to join us in Singapore in January 2012 for the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp. Each startup will receive S$15,000 in seed funding in exchange for equity. These startups will undergo 100 […]
Did India get too arrogant about growth?
Rupee touched a long time low yesterday. For all the talk about “no intervention”, the worry marks are visible amongst regulators. More importantly, for all the talk about “global factors” that are leading to this fall, one can’t miss the fact that Rupee is the worst performing major currency against dollar in recent times. And […]
Name our favorite ecosystem initiative
Wanted to get a sense of the audience – which ecosystem initiative do you find most useful. Is it the TiE mentoring, or nasscom emerge blog? or pluggdin events? or yourstory showcase? or medianama analysis? And what are the gaps – specific ones? What specific service would prompt you to take 2 hours out and […]
Startup Weekend Gurgaon – 11-13 November 2011
Get ready to pitch! On 11-13 November, Startup Weekend is coming to Gurgaon for the first time. Two teams will win great prizes: one a $15,000 seed funding and a spot at the JFDI.Asia–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp, another tickets to DEMO Asia. Register at http://gurgaon.startupweekend.org, #swggn.
European VC Trip – Hottest Start-Ups: Apply to Pitch!
A group of experienced and well known European venture capitalists will tour India from November 11th till 19th. Entrepreneurs from Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai are invited to take part in one of a deal pitches sessions which will take place in: • Dehli, 14th of November 2011 • Bangalore, 16th of November 2011 • Mumbai, […]
TiECon – Fireside chat with Sanjeev and Deep
Had fun chairing this fireside chat with Sanjeev Bikhchandani and Deep Kalra at recently concluded TiECon. A peek behind success – Enjoy! TiEcon Delhi 2011 – A Tale of 2 Dotcoms from TiE Delhi-NCR on Vimeo.
Time for Real VAS?
Update: Sep 16th 2011 – More detailed article here. With impending blockage of SMS spam from 27th September, and requirement of reconfirmation of subscription at every renewal, there is a potential for large scale shift in Mobile VAS. The two “facilities” mentioned above have led to a business model for VAS driven by push and […]
VCs’ Next Phase
Businessworld has a cover story on the Indian venture capital industry, the risks it faces, and key players. Read on…
UnitedLex on Inc500 list
UnitedLex, a Canaan portfolio company, has been selected on Inc 500 list of fastest growing private companies. UnitedLex recorded an over 1000% growth in last three years. Congratulations to the team! Read on…