Women who are preceived as good-looking find it easier to sell their business ideas and products to potential investors. But this is not the only gender inequality in the world of venture capital, a study...
MSMEs, as we all know, is the backbone of Indian economy (or for that matter any economy, globally) that, on an average, accounts for 37% of the GDP, 45% of the Manufacturing Output, 42% of...
The Fintech industry has come a long way in addressing the credit demand by revolutionizing access to the supply (lenders) side. This has been one of the most critical factors in addressing a part of...
The funding landscape, especially the Private Equity (PE-VC) money, is concentrated in certain industry segment pockets that is defined by the asset size – asset light, asset medium and asset heavy – as well as...
India recorded $49 billion PE-VC investments till September 2021, 41% of which has been in unicorns. In the eleven months of 2021, India has added forty one unicorns in its kitty and NASSCOM estimates this...
In this article, I would like to take the opportunity to share my observations about the challenges in MSME funding during my recent field visits to the state of Jharkhand and Odisha. About a couple...
I was recently in Chennai speaking to a group of MSME entrepreneurs at a CII conference, and all of them appeared very enthused to raise funds for their business. I took that opportunity to make...
Tesla (TSLA) plunged $39 or 12.7% in late trading after the SEC announcedthat it had charged CEO Elon Musk with securities fraud “for a series of false and misleading tweets about a potential transaction to take...
Retail investors and some institutional investors focus on the asset they want to acquire in anticipation of price appreciation. The game for some institutional investors is more complicated. It is not only about the asset...
Startup funding have been booming in India in 2016, which has become one of the major reasons of startups mushrooming across India. If we really look into how these startups are growing and where do...
