The Venture Intelligence Blog

To have a higher chance for raising funding, startup entrepreneurs need to target investors based on parameters such as: Age of the company Investment Size Stage of the company (Product fit, Market fit, Scaling etc) Investment round (Seed, Series A, etc) Sector e.g. While there are funds who are stage agnostic (e.g. Sequoia Capital), there are certain funds who prefer to invest at seed stage level (e.g. Blume Ventures). Which is why in the  Handbook on Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Early Stage Funding , we provide entrepreneurs with the lay of the VC land. You can download a larger list of investors based on the above infographic from the link below: Handbook on Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Early Stage Funding Incubators and Accelerators in India Angel Investors in India Seed Funds in India Early Stage (Series A & B) Investors in India SME-Focused Investors in India Impact Investors in India Deal Platforms ...

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...