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ET Now’s Startup Central show featured Venture Intelligence data on Quarterly and Half Yearly VC Investments in 2017. Dev Khare, Managing Director, Lightspeed India was a special guest on the show sharing some of the firm’s perspective on the recent trends Venture Intelligence  is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Part 1 (snapshots from the panel on making Startup Ecosystem sustainable): Speakers on the panel included in this segment: K. Ganesh, Co-Founder, GrowthStory Ben Mathias, MD & India Head, Vertex Ventures Shailesh Ghorpade, Managing Partner & CIO, Exfinity Ventures Aroon Raman, Managing Director, Telos Investments   Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

ET NOW’s Super Angels, a special series on the ‘Starting Up’ show which provides a platform for start-ups to make pitches to Angel Investors, concluded its grand finale on the 24th of March at the Convention Centre, Bombay Stock Exchange. The series spread over 6 months and 20 start-ups pitching to investors culminated in a grand finale with 5 start-ups pitching face-to-face to investors in front of 200 member strong audience. The finale witnessed as many as 3 start-ups out of the 5 finalists raise funding for their respective firms. The 5 finalist start-ups that took to the stage included Live Inbox, Unbxd, Exotel, DroidCloud and Staffoncontract.com. They in turn made their pitches to, India’s most renowned Super Angels including Mahesh Murthy of Seedfund, Vishal Gondal of Indiagames, Sanjay Parthasarathy of Indix, Karthik Reddy of Blume Ventures and Vijay Shekhar Sharma of the One97 Mobility Fund. The first of the 5 start-ups to raise capital and clearly the one, most hotly conteste...

From the Press Release: ET NOW’s Super Angels, a special series on the ‘Starting Up’ show which provides a platform for start-ups to make pitches to Angel Investors, witnessed a Mumbai based start-up company – Fetise.com (Men’s Apparel e-commerce platform) raise capital up to Rs. 25 Crores from Seedfund, represented by Mahesh Murthy, one of the Super Angels on the show. On what attracted Seedfund to invest in Fetise.com, Mahesh Murthy, Managing Partner of Seedfund says, “Very often we see e-commerce start-ups who want to sell everything to everybody. But here we found a team that focussed on one target audience: upscale men and they’ve executed well to build a wide and deep line of products for the audience, as well as significantly differentiate from other e-com players.” On the experience of raising funds on the Super Angels platform, Chetan Bafna of Fetise.com says “The sheer pace of growth within e-commerce in India makes this an exciting business. Our fundraising process started 6...

From the Press Release: Starting Up, ET NOW’s show on India's start-up ecosystem, with an objective to promote and generate awareness on entrepreneurship & entrepreneurial skills in India; visits the MIT School of Business to conduct a one day special workshop titled 'Starting Up @ MIT'. The entire session will be recorded by the MIT Team & the videos will then be uploaded onto their online platform & become a part of the new entrepreneurship syllabus at MIT. Prominent entrepreneurs like Samir Palnitkar, Founder of Shop Socially.com; Anup Tapadia, Founder of Touchmagix; Abinash Tripathy, Former Indian Head of Zimbra and now Founder of Infinitely Beta will be the main speakers at the workshop along with Sudhir Syal, Anchor & Editor of the show ‘Starting Up’. The various topics covered during the workshop will include - How to write a business plan, the essence of starting up, evaluating start-up ideas, secret to scaling a business and the art of product inn...