I am happy to share that we have led an investment round of $6MN in UnitedLex with Helion. UnitedLex is a legal consulting and outsourcing firm. Sahad has covered some numbers on broad KPO market in his posts. Since last 12-18 months, we came across many companies in the broad KPO market – Legal Outsourcing, […]
Proto.in Delhi – 18-19 July 2008
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Last and Final Call for Proto.in July Edition ’08.
The Nominations for this edition of Proto.in seems like they all came in in a flurry in the last couple of weeks in quite a bit of speed. We have close to 80 Nominations and some very fabulously interesting companies – there are 12 that I am personally handpicking after a lot of debate and […]
Launch of TIE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008
Hi All, I am happy to announce launch of second edition of TIE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge. To refresh memories: In 2006, we invited entrepreneurs (starts ups and early stage companies) to showcase their ventures, short listed 11 businesses and did a final presentation round in front of an expert jury. In the whole process, 11 businesses […]
Proto.in Delhi Edition: Nominations Open. Now!
Hi Everyone!. We are back in the beginning stages of those exciting times again! There has been a lot of silent activity happening at our end this time, to make things happen much earlier on, so that we could probably add a bit more value to the startups that are presenting. There are some hard […]
BarCamp Mumbai – 29th Mar
BarCamp Mumbai 2 was a big hit with over 200 attendees and a day full of discussions on many interesting topics and ideas. BarCamp Mumbai 3 is now on the cards for 29th March at School of Management at IIT Mumbai. In the true spirit of BarCamp it’s an open platform which anyone can make […]
ArcSight IPO: A positive vibe
So ArcSight, the enterprise security and compliance management company, went public a couple of weeks ago. Market watchers and industry analysts had always held mixed views about the company, and the same story goes with its IPO too. The hints of a listing came to be known publicly in September 2006, when the Valley kahuna […]
Canaan closes $650M fund
Happy to report that we have announced closure of our eighth fund at $650M. The fund will continue to focus on early stage technology businesses in US, India and Israel. India could account for upto 25% of the fund commitments. For our India operations, this is a significant increase in commitment. We started investing in […]
Harish Gandhi joins Canaan Partners
Happy to announce that Harish Gandhi has joined Canaan Partners’ India team. Prior to joining Canaan Partners, Harish headed the Value Added Services (VAS) Business and the New Product Development team at Bharti Airtel. In his product development role, Harish was responsible for working with a number of VAS product, service and content companies as […]
OM Careers to Host World’s First Online Marketing Careers Conference
OM Careers is a non-profit, online marketing careers community, dedicated to addressing the challenge of lack of skilled resources in the Online/Search marketing industry. OM Careers is playing host to OMCAR 2008, world’s first online marketing careers conference in Delhi on Jan 12, 2008. The event will be coupled with a unique Job clinic opportunity […]
Event Notification : 5th Meetup of Mobile Monday Delhi
I am Very excited to inform you that we have finalized the schedule for next meeting of Mobile Monday Delhi Chapter. Our Fifth Meetup will be on 5th of JAN 2008. I would like to invite VW community to be a part of this Event and share your thoughts with fellow mobile enthusiasts. Details of […]
The Creation of a Sustainable Ecosystem.
This is perhaps a wee bit of eerie timing, as there are posts by Sujai* and quite a few others circulating around the blogosphere with some very serious questions about the Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Perhaps its of relevance to go through the basics yet again and what it would take to make this ecosystem mature, […]