Indian Incubator Fund: Specs (Part 1)

I promised entrepreneur Sujai Karampuri that I would write a piece on what an Indian Incubator Fund should look like, in response to the discussion in my previous piece, India Needs More Incubator Funds. To begin, I will tell you a story. When I first arrived at the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, my

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India Needs More Incubator Funds

Yesterday, I spent an hour chatting with Subrata Mitra, one of the Partners at Indian seed fund Erasmic, which has been in the news recently for attracting Google as a Limited Partner. I have been writing often about the Indian seed investment situation: Concept Arbitrage, Venture Capital in India, Too Much Money, Too Few Deals

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Seed Funds in India

A survey of seed funds and the state of early-stage investing in India.