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Shubham Housing raises $8M from Elevar, Helion, Accion & Saama Capital
Social sector investor Accion has announced that its Frontier Investments Group, along with Saama Capital (an India venture-focused investment firm), ......
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CDC ropes in Actis' Srinivasan Nagarajan as regional director, Donald Peck as advisor
UK’s development finance institution CDC Group Plc said that Srinivasan Nagarajan will join the firm as regional director for its investments in ......
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Microfinance institutions set to see further consolidation
The microfinance institutions (MFI) sector, subjected to a blizzard of critical regulatory changes over the past two years – both ......
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Consolidation is inevitable in legal services biz, but the mindset is not yet ready: Amarchand & Mangaldas' Shardul Shroff
India's largest corporate law firm Amarchand & Mangaldas Suresh A. Shroff & Co has set into motion an ambitious plan ......
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Smaller funds allow smaller cheques: Dave McClure & Paul Singh of 500 Startups on micro funds
Silicon Valley-based incubator-cum-seed fund 500 Startups is looking to ramp up its regional investments with micro funds. The firm is ......
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Patni brothers buy 40% in Grameen Capital India, IFMR Trust exits
Amit Patni and Arihant Patni of Nirvana Venture Advisors have acquired a stake in Grameen Capital India (GCI) from its ......
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Accretive (Dilutive) Deals can be bad (good) deals
Analysts, investors and journalists who follow stocks have an obsessive focus on earnings per share, what it is now and ......
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Messing with indirect transfers
Many foreign investors consciously design a second option for selling their emerging market investments: i.e. the ability to sell an ......
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Irrelevancy leads to failure – Worry for Yahoo, Microsoft, HP, Sears, etc.
The web lit up yesterday when people started sharing a Fortune quote from Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, "We are ......
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Raising equity is better than going for debt in the food biz: Vikram Bakshi of McDonald's
As the world’s largest fast food retail chain, McDonald's has more than a thing or two to share with budding ......
