Written by Sameer Kamat

In the previous post we cover the basics of venture capital. If you missed it here’s the post – What is Venture capital?

In this post we list down the prominent venture capital firms in India. Many of these These are the firms with the most active and multiple venture capital funds i.e. in terms of investments made.

Venture Capital Firms in India

Some of the venture capital firms in India operate out of multiple locations. So we have categorised it based on the primary city for each.

Written by Sameer Kamat

In our mini-series on venture capital jobs, we covered the basics of VC (What is Venture Capital?) and the money involved (read – Venture Capitalist salary range in India & USA). You might be wondering how you could get a venture capital job. Unfortunately, given the attractive nature of the industry & the fantastic perks at stake, thousands of extremely capable folks like you are doing the same. In fact, many have gone beyond just pondering about it. They have been exploring all possible avenues to break into the best venture capital firms in India and abroad. And they’ve been doing this for years.

So what is it that makes getting venture capital jobs so damn difficult?

Written by Sameer Kamat

Our highly effective Crystal Ball tells us that you’d like to earn a venture capitalist salary and retire early. Correct? If the answer is No, just wait till you finish reading this post. Before you go and talk to the venture capital firms in India or USA or anywhere else, it’s important that you do your homework.

We started the journey with an overview of venture capital. Here’s the post (What is venture capital?). In this post, we get into a typical venture capital firm and try to understand the pecking order i.e. the various designations, who does what and how much they can earn.

Written by Sameer Kamat

Entrepreneurship as a career figures high on the preferences of many. Compared to regular corporate jobs, the nice warm feeling of knowing that you’ll get your monthy salary is absent, but there’s a whole lot more to compensate for that. Freedom, flexibility and a tremendous sense of job satisfaction.
Tepper MBA Vikram Narayan is the founder of BookBuzzr, which provides authors with a unique online marketing platform for their books. An extremely down-to-earth guy, with no airs about the success that he has managed to achieve, Vikram shares with us his entrepreneurial journey that started from Carnegie Mellon University and has brought him back to India. During the phone interview, I picked up quite a few ideas from him.

Read his views and suggestions on bootstrapping a startup. Inspiring!

Written by Sameer Kamat

Guy Kawasaki has been there, done that, several times over. He shot into the limelight in the mid eighties as the evangelist for Apple’s Macintosh. After a brilliant track record there, he moved on to become a successful serial entrepreneur launching technology businesses ranging from databases (4th Dimension) to content aggregating websites such as Alltop.com. Guy has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

When he’s not thinking of innovative business models to launch, in his venture capitalist avatar at Garage Technology Ventures, he funds other businesses that catch his fancy. His Midas-touch mantra is unconventional – “Whatever is gold, Guy touches.“

Written by Sameer Kamat

We are not sure if it was our last post, our karma or just the right timing. But we got an email from the Alltop.com team to let us know that our blog now figures on their elite list of education related sites selected from the humongous pool of education blogs. We share the space out there with blogs from the leading admission consulting teams (Accepted.com and Clear Admit) and heavyweights like the U.S. Department of Education.