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We see a list of venture capitalist as a great resource for budding entrepreneurs irrespective of their size and stage. Keeping this in view we present a list of venture capitalists in India. We have decided to group the lists city wise at a later stage to make it easier for entrepreneurs to locate vc’s withing their city. As we gather more data we will probably create a tool to easily find vcs matching your criteria.

We hope with the help of the community we will be able to keep this list expanding and accurate.

Note: For now this list is grouped in no particular order.

1. Name: IDG Ventures India

 

Description: IDG Ventures India is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology and technology-enabled companies.

We are part of IDG Ventures, a global network of local venture funds backed by IDG, the world’s largest IT-focused media company.(Off their website)

 

Website:http://www.idgvcindia.com/

 

Email: bplan@idgvcindia.com

 

Key contact: Sudhir Sethi

Email: NA

 

Type:  Early stage/India focussed presence

 

Focus: Internet/Gaming/Software

 

Past Investments: Manthan systems, Kreeda, ozone media

 

Office in: Mumbai, Bangalore, Mauritius

 

Corpus: NA

 

 2. 

Name: Sequoia Capital

 

Description: One of the better known venture capitals firms, past investments include Google, yahoo, Nvidia and others. Most investments are made through primary contacts. Investment sizes varies from 100k - $50M. Preferred exit strategy IPO.

 

Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com/india/venture-capital/

 

Email: startindia@sequoiacap.com

 

Key contact: NA (http://www.sequoiacap.com/people/)

Email: NA

 

Type:  Early stage to IPO/Global prescence

 

Focus: Internet/Gaming/Software/Networks/Media/LifeStyle & Leisure

 

Past Investments: Google, Yahoo, Edelweiss, FirstSource, Times Internet

 

Office in: Mumbai, Bangalore

 

 3.Company Name: 2i Capital (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Description: NA

Website: www.2icapital.com

Type:   Early Stage / Growth

Development/ Expansion

 

 

 

Key Contacts: Vivek Sekhar

Designation: Principal

Email:     vivek.sekhar@2icapital.com

               kislay.kanth@2icapital.com

 

 

Size of Investments:   Less than 10 Million

Focus: Industry Focus            IT, Computer Software, Computer Hardware, IT Enabled Services

           Biotech

 

Offices: Delhi,  Bangalore

 

Address: 613, Oxford Towers, 139, Airport Road, Bangalore- 560 008, India

 

Tel:  +91.80.5115.1990-3

Fax: +91.80.5115.1994

 

Delhi Office

Tel:  +91.11.5565.7267

Fax: +91.11.5166.2420

 

4. Name: Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd

 

Description: NA

Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com/india/venture-capital/

 

Email: v.sreenivasulu@intel.com

 

Key contact: Sreenivasulu V

Email: v.sreenivasulu@intel.com

 

Type:  Early stage to IPO/Global prescence

 

Focus: Internet/Gaming/Software/Networks

 

Past Investments: NA

 

Office in: Bangalore

Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd.

136 Airport Rd.

Bangalore, Karnataka 560 017, India

Tel. +91-80-2507-5000

Fax +91-80-520-2464

 

4. Helion Venture Partners, LLC

 

 

Description: NA

Website:

 

Email:

 

Key contact: Ashish Gupta

Email: N/A

 

Type:  Second round/Expansion

 

Focus: Outsourcing, Internet, Mobile, Technology Products, Retail Services, Education and Financial Services

 

Past Investments: MakeMyTrip.com, Komli, smsgupshup.com

 

Office in: Bangalore/Gurgaon

Bangalore Office
Helion Advisors Pvt Ltd
First Floor, Pine Valley
Embassy Golflinks Business Park
Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore 560 071
Karnataka, India

Tel: +91 80 4018 3333
Fax: +91 80 4018 3456
Email: contact.helion@gmail.comGurgaon (NCR) Office
Helion Advisors Pvt Ltd
Block B, 9th Floor
Vatika Towers, Sector 54
Gurgaon 122 002
Haryana, India

Tel: +91 124 461 5333
Fax: +91 124 461 5345
Email: contact.helion@gmail.com

 Corpus: $350

 

 

5. Name: Kubera partners

Description:

Key contact: Kumar Mahadeva

Email: info@kuberapartners.com

Focus on: Outsourcing/services/technology/biotech/Other

Type: Early stage expansion

Office in:

Mumbai

Kubera Advisors Private Limited
Nirlon House, 5th Floor
Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli
Mumbai 400025

Tel  +91 (22) 4034 8600
Fax +91 (22) 4034 8686

6. Name: UTI Ventures

Website:http://www.utiventures.com/index.html

Description:UTI Ventures is a leading Indian private equity firm.
Focused on growth capital, we propel the ambitions of passionate Indian entrepreneurs, while unlocking superior returns for our investors. Our demonstrated track record of successful investments, led by an experienced management team, positions our funds among top performers in India.(website)

Key contact: NA

Email:info@utiventures.com

Focus on: Energy/Technology/outsourcing/media/retail/others

Type: NA

Offices in:

UTI Ventures
Concorde Block
16th Floor, UB City
#24 Vittal Mallya Road
Bangalore 560 001

Tel: +91 80 3055 1200
Fax: +91 80 3055 1234

 

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The US government came out with a act called no child left behind act in 2001. The act aims to empower students who are getting left behind compared to the more successful peers.

Good move in our books.

But a classroom is not the only place where people get left behind. We know it happens every where from a startup to a fortune 500 company. We know it happens to your customers when they visit your website, use your software and products.

So we started the “no user left behind”philosophy, now we are offering interactive video manuals as a service along with our usability analysis and optimization service. Using our video presentation techniques, you can now help your users feel confident while using our easy to follow video manual.

Here are some scenarios where you might be using this:

1. Simplify Internet/Intranet Apparitions for users: We can make interactive video manuals for your websites, forms and intranet applications so that your users can simply view the video and learn how they are supposed to use a application. No more technical assistance required, just point them to video and watch them become pros.

2. Software user interface video manuals: Use this service to simplify user interface and provide simple “how to” videos on demand for your users. Something that is always available, whenever they wish to view it.

3. Product videos/demos/Walk throughs: Use our service to provide your users with video walk throughs, feature tours of your software or create a self help video library letting them help themselves.

We believe something like this cut your support costs hugely and make any user more productive. if you have any questions do email us at info [a t].appliedeye.com

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Being in the software product development we often get questions like how are software product development firms any different from offshore outsourcing firms? What is your differentiation?What do you offer that infosys and wipros do not offer?

These are valid questions but not surprisingly they often come from people who are not looking to innovate a product, people who are looking to innovate a product or service inherently know in their minds a regular software development firm will not fit the bill.

To start with a innovator looking to create a product or service is like rugby player who has the ball in his hand and is running towards the goal post like his life depends on it. And it does.

Only an innovator can understand an innovator. Period.

The major offshore outsourcing companies have been around for decades yet they have never attempted or delivered a product. This in the face of an appreciating rupee and shrinking margins.

There are various factors  that differentiate a outsourced product development firm from a regular software outsourcing house.

We mention the top 10 reasons why an outsourced product development firm is completely different from software outsourcing company.

1. Approach

2. Process

3. Delivery

4. Design

5. Trusted Partners

6. Risk Ability

7. People

8. Project handing

9. Service level agreements

10. Ownership

We will discuss all the points in details in the coming postings. Meanwhile if you would like to provide your point of view feel free to comment and let us know.

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SaaS or Software as a service has been around for a decade but never really took off into the mainstream, the main reasons why it never took off were security reasons, reliability & availability, user adoption,  preference of major players to keep SaaS out, technology limitations.

Salesforce.com was the first one to break the barrier to entry into SaaS enterprise space forcing major players like oracle, sap, ibm, microsoft to get on the SaaS bandwagon.

The bigger players had a vested interest in enterprise software remain on legacy systems. few reasons are stated as below.

Since the hardware is shared in SaaS the sale of hardware in the enterprise segment will go down for server makers.

Its easy to sell software to less for more.

Making software available online also means letting the intellectual property in the open for smaller players to immitate the same software and pose a threat by reducing margins in the segment.

SaaS levels the playing field up for smaller player, which is something bigger players will not want.

In a 5 part series we take a look at the history of SaaS, its failures and successes, advantages and disadvantages, technical perspectives and architecture, issues in user adoption and marketing of SaaS and what the future holds.

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Recently Googles orkut followed footsteps of facebook and opened orkut website to developers, which means developers can built apps that cna be consumed by orkut members and use orkuts data.

More importantly Google has built orkut on the open social platform which promises to make every social website a container which can lend itself to be used by application developers to harness the social data that these social networks have to make application which can leverage these relationships between friends and networks.

In the coming time as the race to become a container for opensocial platform becomes hotter, application developers who know how opensocial platform works and facebook application will see a huge demand.

As stated on google blog a social web is good, but it will not come without its share of problems. We will write more about the negative impacts of the opensocial platform in the next series.

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A Great company:

Sees an opportunity

creates a product

creates a market

A good company:

sees a market

sees the opportunity

creates a product

A bad company:

Sees the competitors market

Sees the competitors opportunity

Creates a product

The best companies do not plan to catch up the leader, they do not force into other peoples space, they find vacuum and expand into it.

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 Sometime back on Matt Cutts blog mentioned that Google is testing new techniques to fight paid links affecting their search engine results.

According to Google webmasters who choose to sell text links on their website should use some method to dislose it to the search engines. More small webmasters use text link ads to generate revenues from their websites.

Its ironic how Google is using webmasters to serve its purpose and sting them back when its jobs is done.

Most of these text links are bought by search engine optimization firms to promote websites in search engines. Its easy for Google to say paid links are bad, but the content that Google serves comes from these webmasters, the ad revenues on Google search engnes should be shared with webmasters too then.

Instead of bettering their own search engine to counter these problems they are resorting to arm twisting whihc will never work.

But this brings me to the main point, has Google become too strong and godlike than we need? The answer is yes.

Something’ gotta give, maybe another good search engine or other ways of finding information on the web so that webmasters can create and sell content like they want rather than how Google tells them to.

As seth godin mentions marketers want to reach the unreachable, maybe something that helps them do that on the web too.

 

 

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Found on seth’s blog orginally from guardian
1. Understand the urgency of the situation. Half-measures simply won’t do. The only way to grow is to abandon your strategy of doing what you did yesterday, but better. Commit.

2. Remarkable doesn’t mean remarkable to you. It means remarkable to me. Am I going to make a remark about it? If not, then you’re average, and average is for losers.

3. Being noticed is not the same as being remarkable. Running down the street naked will get you noticed, but it won’t accomplish much. It’s easy to pull off a stunt, but not useful.

4. Extremism in the pursuit of remarkability is no sin. In fact, it’s practically a requirement. People in first place, those considered the best in the world, these are the folks that get what they want. Rock stars have groupies because they’re stars, not because they’re good looking.

5. Remarkability lies in the edges. The biggest, fastest, slowest, richest, easiest, most difficult. It doesn’t always matter which edge, more that you’re at (or beyond) the edge.

6. Not everyone appreciates your efforts to be remarkable. In fact, most people don’t. So what? Most people are ostriches, heads in the sand, unable to help you anyway. Your goal isn’t to please everyone. Your goal is to please those that actually speak up, spread the word, buy new things or hire the talented.

7. If it’s in a manual, if it’s the accepted wisdom, if you can find it in a Dummies book, then guess what? It’s boring, not remarkable. Part of what it takes to do something remarkable is to do something first and best. Roger Bannister was remarkable. The next guy, the guy who broke Bannister’s record wasn’t. He was just faster … but it doesn’t matter.

8. It’s not really as frightening as it seems. They keep the masses in line by threatening them (us) with all manner of horrible outcomes if we dare to step out of line. But who loses their jobs at the mass layoffs? Who has trouble finding a new gig? Not the remarkable minority, that’s for sure.

9. If you put it on a T-shirt, would people wear it? No use being remarkable at something that people don’t care about. Not ALL people, mind you, just a few. A few people insanely focused on what you do is far far better than thousands of people who might be mildly interested, right?

10. What’s fashionable soon becomes unfashionable. While you might be remarkable for a time, if you don’t reinvest and reinvent, you won’t be for long. Instead of resting on your laurels, you must commit to being remarkable again quite soon.

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Moslows Pyramid

In a conversation with Steve harmon wos a well known startup evangelist i realised how entreprenship has a relationship with maslow’s law.

According to maslow confidence achievement freedom comes at the top of te pyramid and security at the bottom.

Every entreprenur knows that freedom confindence and acievement comes before security for him

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Internet and mobile association of India has publised some eye popping jaw opening facts about the state of Internet in India

Here are some facts

Job search online
Job Search is one of the top 5 key online activities that Indians do online [Email, Surfing, Chatting, Search and Job Search]

The number of job seekers Online is further expected to cross 9.2 million this year (2006-07) with the estimated market size of the Indian online recruitment industry to reach Rs 241 crores for 2006-07 from the current Rs 145 crores in 2005-06 .The industry is also likely to maintain a year on year growth in excess of 60%.

Referals online

Interestingly 31% having found a shopping site through word of mouth referrals and 18% shopped on a particular website because it was referred.

Online Bill payment
According to research by IAMAI, the number of Indians paying bills online is expected to increase from the current 0.3 million in 2005-06. to 1.8 million by 2007-2008.

Search engine marketing
Rs.230 crores of ad spend on this media is aimed at Indians alone. Of this, about a third, over Rs.70 crores is spent by Indian companies. For an industry that barely got off the ground a couple of years ago, it’s a huge leap.

Though the most interesting figures would be about ecommerce. One thing is for sure the internet and mobile industry will see a huge upswing for the next 5 years.
Surely are good times we are living in.

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