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Stellaris Venture Partners $300 million Fund III   has attracted significant attention in the ecosystem - including for its size and the speed with which it was raised. The three original partners of Stellaris - Ritesh Banglani, Alok Goyal and Rahul Chowdhri - have recently shared details of the fund raise, via two different podcasts. While Ritesh and Alok spoke on the Neon Show , while Rahul appeared on Prime Venture Partners' podcast  (along with Gautam Mago of A91 Partners). The newest partner at Stellaris, Naman Lahoty, had also joined Stellaris' founders in an Yourstory Podcast  where they covered broader startup ecosystem related topics (than just the fund raise).  Stellaris has meanwhile launched its own podcast (but naturally?) - where, as part of the first episode , Rahul Chowdhri, has interviewed Kirti Varun Avasarala (a senior product executive at Meesho  and Flipkart, who has since moved to Uber). All well worth a watch / listen - especially fo...

US-based AgFunder has a podcast interview with Mark Kahn, Co-Founder of  pioneering India-focused agri-business focused VC firm Omnivore Capital. In the interview, Kahn contrasts the Indian agtech startup scene with that in the US and what he expects for the sector going forward. 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.

Interactive lecture to feature as part of research firm Venture Intelligence’s “Entrevista” series Venture Intelligence, India’s leading research service focused on Private Equity/Venture Capital and M&A deal activity, has partnered with IIT Madras’ C-TIDES, to produce multimedia recordings of interactions with successful Indian entrepreneurs from across sectors. Branded as ‘Entrevisa’, the interactions in this series will be available for free and downloadable in audio (mp3 “podcasts”) and streaming video formats from the Entrevista website at http://www.entrevista.in. As part of the partnership, Venture Intelligence and IIT Madras propose to invite, on a regular basis, successful entrepreneurs from across the country to deliver interactive lectures at the IIT campus. Mr. R Sarabeswar, Chairman & CEO of leading construction services firm, Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd., will deliver the first such lecture at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras on Frid...

Click Here to download an interesting lecture and interaction (at the London School of Economics) with Ron Cohen , founder of global PE firm Apax Partners. Arun Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Venture Intelligence, the leading provider of data and analysis on private equity, venture capital and M&A deals in India. View free samples of Venture Intelligence newsletters and reports. Email the author at arun@ventureintelligence.in