Conference Panel: Trends in Private Equity and Venture Capital Sectors in India

Given a trio of PE, VC and IB players in India, the panel met high expectations. Some facets talked about:
1. Debt market in India
2. Constraints in structuring transactions
3. Regulatory environment and red tape
4. Nature of targets (family driven enterprises), time horizons and deal flow networks

Given these factors, I wondered how the firms managed risks- not just financial risks. I queried the panel about their experience with a deal that did not meet experience.

What do you think?

The VC investor, who had significant experience in investing in India provided an interesting insight, that emphasized the efficiencies that the PE/ VC firms can find across funds and investments/ deals.

The response also threw light on the "transaction costs" that mutual fund like SPAC aggregators would face that would make them replicas of publicly traded PE firms.

The panel echoed some of the points made by Alan Patricof, Managing Director, Greycroft, at a conference keynote, with respect to his experience in Venture Capital in Africa.

The Usual Disclaimer: This is purely a knowledge sharing resource. Ethically, context is everything, and I will gladly retract anything that affects the parties mentioned. Call this my mini OpenCourseWare, if you will, where Open signifies life experiences.

Blast from the past: Other TATA products? A.k.a. And you thought Indian IT was getting hammered?

I had been reading articles about how Indian IT is getting hammered, so I had to send this one out. Its a blast from the past for me.

This note would be useful to folks interested in product management for the B2B space, as well as useful to folks tracking emerging markets, the banking sector, the business process consulting segment in IT consulting, and finally the IT sector as a whole.

This is about trends in Universal Banking, the corresponding impact on Financial Services Technology products and also about a little bit of nostalgia.

Yours truly was involved in product development and management of important components (core banking and trade) of the portfolio of products below. You could probably find an IDC report about how it all started, though this insider would disagree with some details in it. :-)

TCS BaNCS Recognized as #2 Universal Banking Solution in the 2007 IBS Sales League Table:
1> http://www.forbes.com/prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2008/02/29/prnewswire200802290830PR_NEWS_USPR_____LAF007.html
2> http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/technology/article/tcs-bancs-recognized-2-universal-banking-solution-2007-ibs-sales-league-table_501179_12.html
3> http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X678164

TCS BaNCS Core Banking ranked China's No. 1 Core Banking Solution in 2006:
1> http://www.myguides.com/guide/news/2007/Jul/31/TCS_B%CE%B1NCS_Core_Banking_ranked_China%E2%80%99s_No._1_Core_Banking_Solution_in_2006_by_Independent_Research_firm.html

Now, I would like to find that IDC report on how it all started. Any pointers?