Tag: Venture Capital
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Revisiting the Foreign Venture Capital Regime
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] In a previous post on this blog about four months ago, we had extolled the virtues of an economy possessing a favourable venture capital regime. We had also highlighted some of the progressive developments in the Indian venture capital market that were induced by favourable regulations issued by SEBI and RBI.…
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Miscellaneous: Commodities Trading; Venture Capital, etc.
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] 1. Commodities Futures Trading A few papers and columns have recently appeared in this area. In a paper titled Futures Trading in Agricultural Commodities, Sandhya Srinivasan finds that the ban on futures trading on 4 agricultural commodities in May this year has not been effecting in bringing down the price of…
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Liquidation Preference: How Effective is it?
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] In a column in the Economic Times, Amrita Singh and Siddharth Shah discuss the relevance of the concept of liquidation preference in Indian investment transactions: “The progressive liberalisation of the foreign investment regime has provided a major boost to private equity and venture capital investments in Indian companies. With the advent…
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Success of Venture Capital Investments in India
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] One of our readers, Aravind Balajee, brings to our attention this story from VC Circle. It relates to a tremendously successful exit by a venture capital investor, UTI Ventures, from an Indian portfolio company, Excelsoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. The details are here: “There is a thing or two to learn from…