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Source: Flipkart.com That Flipkart was able to attract such a large investment  and that too at a valuation that's double of what one of its existing investors had marked it down to  just a few months ago, has come as a big relief to Early Stage investors.  ET-NOW Startup Central has a discussion  featuring Rehan Yar Khan of Orios Venture Partners , K.Ganesh of GrowthStory and Arun Natarajan of Venture Intelligence  on the impact.  As part of the show, Arun indicates the fact that investors in the latest round were strategic ones with deep pockets, bodes well for Flipkart. The repeated mark downs made some of Flipkart's previous investors - especially the mutual fund arms of Fidelity, Morgan Stanley and others - have been a source of distraction for Flipkart even as it battles Amazon.com in the marketplace.  (Such investors have to put a value on their investments - even in privately held companies - each quarter).  According to...

Part 2 (snapshots from the panel on making Startup Ecosystem sustainable): Speakers on the panel - moderated  by Chandra Srikanth, Chief Correspondent & Anchor, ET Now   - 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   Avinash Luthria, Principal, responsAbility Suhail Nathani, Partner, Economic Laws Practice 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.

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