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LPs check out what they've shopped

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Up until about a year ago, 'limited partners' was a taboo term to bring up with a VC. As this earlier Mint column notes, VCs were rather hush-hush about the institutions that back their funds. Gradually, though, LPs have been making their presence felt here. You meet them at private equity conferences and some, such as Thomas Weisel International...

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The VC who almost duped a government

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Three years after his arrest, 'venture capitalist' Moses Joseph has been convicted of stealing $20 million from 13 clients and faces upto 28 years in prison, Mercury News reports. The clients (read limited partners who invested in his fund) include Eastman Kodak, Wells Fargo, US Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. Joseph, a general partner at Palo...

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VCCircle revamps website, adds features

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Private equity and venture capital blog VCCircle has revamped its site and added a bunch of new features. The blue-and-green themed site has a cleaner interface and the home page shows a bird's eye view of of all other sections on the site instead of the scrolldown-news format it had earlier. With lots of images, the home page looks much less text...

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Cost v/s control - the Matrix bets

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Yesterday, venture firm Matrix Partners India announced a $ 7 million investment in preschool chain Tree House Education . The Mumbai-based chain owns about 45 pre-schools across the country. This is far less than the 700 centers of Kidzee or the 350 of Eurokids - two major players in the pre-school space. But unlike the franchise model these two follow...

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SVB begins venture lending in India

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You're reading it here first. SVB Financial Group , the parent of Silicon Valley Bank, has obtained regulatory clearances to launch venture lending operations in India. The firm, which was awaiting a non-banking financial company license from the RBI, will operate the business through its wholly-owned subsidiary SVB India Finance Pvt Ltd. Ash Lilani...

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Lifeblob gets $1 mn from Seedfund

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Bangalore-based online social media company Lifeblob has received $ 1 million funding from Mumbai-based Seedfund . Lifeblob allows users to put up and organise their blogs, images and videos on the site using a "timeline" of events. By using tags, one can specify events (for eg, Smith's birthday party) and define the circle of friends...

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Damn, we missed that one!

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The first time I checked the website of VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners, I was intrigued by a section called 'Anti-portfolio' . Bundled along with its investments and 'Top 50 Exits', the anti-portfolio lists all the big opportunities Bessemer passed up. The names include Apple , Google , eBay and Fedex , among others. Take the Google...

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After backing four funds, Google to now invest directly

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If you can't sell your start-up to Google , maybe you can just sell some stake instead. After test runs backing early-stage venture funds and a few direct investments, the search giant now plans to set up a venture capital arm, reports WSJ. It has hired former entrepreneur William Maris to help set up the venture along with Google's senior VP...

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Don't judge opportunity by current effort: Accel Partners' Peter Wagner

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With the Accel-Erasmic merger , the Palo-Alto headquartered Accel Partners , which until last week did not have a single India investment, has now acquired over a dozen companies in its India portfolio and will add several more with a new fund of $ 60 million. The question is, how many? Accel India says it will retain the Erasmic focus on seeding very...

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Start-up, shut down

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Of the 41 start-ups that have showcased in the first three editions of Proto , three have shut shop, all of them web-based companies: Seraja, an event information and search start-up promoted by serial entrepreneur Rajesh Jain , shut down sometime early this year. Co-founder Ramesh Jain in his blog says it was a case of "lack of focus". SaffronConnect...

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Open your kimono- Lessons by JumpStartup's Sanjay Anandaram

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More notes from the fourth edition of Proto.in Venture capitalist Sanjay Anandaram, who co-founded early-stage VC fund Jump Startup in the dotcom era, had an unfortunate post-lunch, drowsy slot but did a pretty good job of keeping the crowd awake with his blunt talk. Anandaram, who along with his co-founders did not raise a second fund with Jump Startup...

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Pep talks at Proto

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Ex-Nasscom chairman Kiran Karnik kicked off the fourth edition of start-up showcase event Proto.in by drawing parallels between the present market slowdown and the dotcom bust of 2000-01. Karnik began his keynote recalling the tough time IT companies faced in the days following the bust. "There was near recession in many markets and most thought...

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