Utkal Tubers is selling potato seeds in new areas and seizing the opportunity to create a Rs 100-crore firm.

Utkal Tubers is selling potato seeds in new areas and seizing the opportunity to create a Rs 100-crore firm.

With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.

Ranju Sarkar finds out more about Nowfloats, the start-up that is used by 240,000 businesses that reach 13 million consumers.

Ranju Sarkar discovers 48East -- a Bengaluru-based food start-up that delivers flavours from 48 Asian countries to your doorstep.

The past few years have seen the first cycle of mergers and acquisitions, exits, and track-records being created.

Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new.

In an interview with Ranju Sarkar, the founders of Stellaris Venture Partners -- Ritesh Banglani, Alok Goyal and Rahul Chowdhri -- share discuss their unique founder network and why they are bullish on India.

The 4 week online learning programme is available in English and Hindi, and will soon be offered in some regional languages.

Investors spent much of 2016 cleaning house. And a VC tells Ranju Sarkar, "There's still some bad news left in the portfolios (of VC firms). What happens to Ola and Flipkart will drive sentiment in future."

Total exit value breached the $10 billion mark for the first time to touch $10.3 billion this calendar, from $9.4 billion in 2015

Decision to build or buy a platform is a function of price but buyouts are helping large investors create a medium and influence outcomes.

Tatas' best bet would be to find an insider who understands the systems, say headhunters

Invests $50 mn in 11 entities in just over a year, commits $25 mn more; prefers putting money in firms trying to solve India-specific problems

57% of the respondents indicated that their organisations did not conduct independent fraud risk assessment

People move from investment banking to growth equity or from venture capital to growth equity or entrepreneurship, depending on what's attractive at different points of life.

Tata companies perform well while major firms in emerging markets do badly.

However, seed-stage deals have shrunk less this year than VC rounds.

The eyewear market in India is worth $3 billion.

More than Indian exporters, it is Indian business families based in Sri Lanka and Hong Kong which have exploited the Bangladesh advantage