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Thursday, 7th Apr 2011

Nevales Networks takes in Seedfund as Strategic Investor

Nevales Networks, an Indian startup company offering cloud based network security services to Small and Medium Enterprises, received an investment of undisclosed amount from Seedfund, India's leading early-stage venture capital fund, for product development and to expand operations in India. More...

Wednesday, 30th Mar 2011

Micro Housing Finance Corporation meets operating milestones, completes Rs. 25 cr in fund raising from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and India Financial Inclusion Fund

Micro Housing Finance Corporation ("MHFC"), a housing finance company that is focused on providing housing loans to financially excluded urban lower income families, has met the milestones necessary for it to secure second round funding of Rs. 19 cr from its main external investors, the Indian Financial Inclusion Fund ("IFIF") and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The t... More...

Micro Housing Finance Corporation meets operating milestones, completes Rs. 25 cr in fund raising from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and India Financial Inclusion Fund

Micro Housing Finance Corporation, a housing finance company focusing on financially excluded urban lower income families, has met the milestones necessary for it to secure second round funding from its main external investors, Indian Financial Inclusion Fund and Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. More...

Wednesday, 23rd Mar 2011

Reliance Ventures exits Dhama Innovations- 3 more exits on the cards

In addition to Dhama, Reliance Ventures is also considering exiting from 3 other investments - Sequans, a France based 4G chipmaker, US based Stoke, a solutions provider to mobile operators and Yatra, the company's first investment, and one of India's most successful travel portals. More...

Friday, 18th Mar 2011

Hyderabad Angels to invest Rs. 2 crore in RFID start-up, Identis

Hyderabad Angels, a group of entrepreneurs who invest their own capital, on Friday announced an investment of Rs. two crore in the Hyderabad-based custom RFID manufacturing company, Identis Pvt Ltd. More...

Saturday, 12th Mar 2011

Strong PE and M&A activity expected in transport infrastructure and logistics in 2011

The senior most transport and Private Equity CEOs gathered at the 3rd edition of Supply Chain Leadership Council's 'PE, M&A in Transport infrastructure & Logistics Summit' on March 10 in Mumbai to discuss the lessons from and the future of private equity investments in India's logistics sector and the strong M&A wave that is sweeping the sector. More...

Monday, 7th Feb 2011

MyInsuranceClub.com Secures Second Round of Funding

MyInsuranceClub.com, India's second largest insurance comparison website announced today that they have secured a second round of funding from a group of angel investors. More...

Netz Capital plans Realty Re development fund for Mumbai

Netz Capital Advisors, is planning Netz Realty Fund for real estate re development projects in Mumbai. More...

Vizury Interactive raises Series A investment from Ojas Venture Partners & Inventus Capital Partners

Vizury Interactive Solutions Private Limited, (Vizury; www.vizury.com), a leading online advertising company, announced the closure of Series A funding from Ojas Venture Partners and Inventus Capital Partners. More...

Tuesday, 1st Feb 2011

ValueFirst raises INR 700 million funding, buildup to the IPO story

ValueFirst Messaging Pvt. Ltd. has raised a round of INR 700 million funding from a wholly owned subsidiary of The Headland Asian Ventures Fund 3 Limited (HAV3), a fund advised by Headland Capital Partners Limited (formerly HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Limited) with participation from existing investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA). More...

Monday, 31st Jan 2011

Aavishkaar invests in Milk Mantra

Aavishkaar, the award winning rural focused equity fund has invested in Orissa based dairy company Milk Mantra to acquire a significant minority stake in the company. Milk Mantra is setting up an integrated dairy chain in Orissa and will sell milk and other dairy products across Eastern India. More...

Monday, 24th Jan 2011

Maruti Suzuki WagonR launches 'Think BIG Challenge 2'

WagonR Think BIG Challenge 2 is a platform for those smart minds who have the passion to see their business thoughts come to life " More...

Friday, 21st Jan 2011

Aavishkaar invests in InI Farms

Aavishkaar, the award winning rural focused equity fund has invested in Mumbai based horticulture company Insight & Intellect (InI) Farms to acquire a significant minority stake in the company. The company is engaged in developing modern horticulture farms and exporting the produce. More...

Monday, 17th Jan 2011

Techie Indians tap $18M funding for Agriculture 2.0 venture

Green Tree Foods which currently manages 1600 acres of farmlands end-to-end, starting from sowing, harvesting and selling of its harvested commodities will be scaling it's operations with this $18M funding. More...

LetsBuy.com receives $6 million VC funding

Helion Venture Partners, Accel Partners & Tiger Global invest in the ecommerce portal More...