Health Tech Startups are the new buzz?
Entrepreneur Online goes inside Blueprint Health, a health-tech accelerator in New York City, to meet some of the entrepreneurs working to give health care a digital upgrade. Venture-capital dollars have been flowing into the sector in recent years.
Wendy Nguyen is the co-founder of HealthyOut, an app that helps people make healthy dining choices. Tim Soo, who co-founded Meddik, uses the collective wisdom of crowds to provide a new way to search for health-care information on the web. They also meet Seth Freedman, co-founder of intelligentM, which aims to cut down on hospital-caught infections through smart tags.
How PE-backed Samhi is building its hotels portfolio
Two-year-old Samhi Hotels Pvt Ltd is following a build-and-buy strategy to expand its business in India and already boasts around 22 hotel properties in various stages of operations and development. Co-founded by Ashish Jakhanwala (who previously led the hotel major Accor’s business in India) besides Steve Rushmore and Manav Thadani (founder and senior executive of the hospitality consulting outfit HVS, respectively), it is one of the new-generation hospitality firms to have attracted large private equity funding.
The company is majority-owned by early investors Equity International and GTI Capital who had committed around $100 million to the firm over a year ago, of which Equity International came in with $75 million. Speaking to VCCircle, Samhi MD & CEO Jakhanwala said the firm would continue with its build-and-buy strategy and scout for more opportunities, mostly in the metros and the mini-metros in India.Watch the video to know more about Samhi’s strategy and expansion plans going forward.
What investment style is right for your startup?
Many people waste time sending business plans to Venture Capitalists, begging bank managers for loans, creating CrowdFunding videos, or pitching their ideas to any angel investor that they can find. If you are scattered in your finance raising strategy, you will experience a lot of rejection, frustration and more importantly,.waste a lot of your valuable time.
There are two models discussed in this presentation -
1. Before CrowdFunding (BC)
2 - After Debt Crisis (AD)
Quickly see when you should use the triple F round, bank lending, angel investors, venture capital, private equity, equity capital markets, debt capital markets, CrowdFunding, CrowdLending or CrowdInvesting.
Green Infra Seeking $150 Million for Wind Farms, Considers IPO
Green Infra Ltd., an Indian wind-farm developer backed by IDFC Private Equity, is in talks with at least two investors to raise $150 million.
The funds raised will be used to increase generation capacity to 1 gigawatt from 295 megawatts in two years, Chief Executive Officer Shivanand Nimbargi said in a phone interview from New Delhi. The company may consider an initial public offering in 2015, he said.
India, the third-biggest wind market, is attracting investments as the cost of wind power declines and fossil-fuel imports increases, making renewable energy more competitive with coal. Developers’ bids in auctions for coal-fired power stations have ranged from $49 to $78 a megawatt-hour, compared with tariffs for wind farms between $66 and $105 a megawatt-hour, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Green Infra, which bought BP Plc (BP/)’s Indian wind-energy businesses in 2009, has 270 megawatts of wind farms and 25 megawatts of solar plants in the country, Nimbargi said. BP’s unit included about 100 megawatts of that total.
MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone
MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. It turns everyday objects into touchpads and combines them with the internet. It’s a simple invention kit for beginners and experts doing art, engineering, and everything inbetween:
It comes ready to use out of the box with everything you see above: MaKey MaKey, Alligator Clips, USB Cable.
How Does it Work?
When you touch the apple, you make a connection, and MaKey MaKey sends the computer a keyboard message. The computer just thinks MaKey MaKey is a regular keyboard (or mouse). Therefore it works with all programs and webpages, because all programs and webpages take keyboard and mouse input.
Make + Key = MaKey MaKey!
What does the fiscal cliff mean for the VC industry?
What is the impact of the fiscal cliff on the access to capital in private markets? Much speculation has presented a more gloomier outlook to what may happen in public markets come January. However, Bo Peabody of Greycroft Ventures says that there is still much liquidity in the private markets for high growth companies. Trends to look out for in 2013 include video, mobile and enterprise capture.
Baseball Analogy Catches Differences in Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Theories
Scott Joachim, chair of the Fenwick & West Private Equity Group, discusses the different vehicles through which limited partnerships (LPs) diversify their investments across venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funds. Baseball comes into play as an outlet for describing the investment theories and differences in approach between VC and PE funds.
Convertible Notes For Startups Explained
Many startups are forgoing traditional seed funding in favor of convertible notes, loans which convert into stock after a company goes through its next round of funding. But are convertible notes good for startups? Are they good for investors? The Explainer Music team breaks it all down in its latest video.
Life 3.0 - Future Social Networks by Funders and Founders
Life 3.0 is designed not just ordinary startups, but startups that follow the vision of futurists to ensure not just impact today, but for the future as well.
The winners of Life 3.0 this year were GAIN Fitness, JoynMe and News Up. Participating startups have included NeuFit, Soniqplay, Trace App, Twigloo, Waddle, Spill, GiftSimple, Social IQ, PayGuard, Stars Vu Clionee, Outpic, Pinstagram, Kumu, Approves.it, I Am Mpowered, ChoreMonster, Pathbrite, OneTaste, Quilt, Twalop, Undip, Erogear, Yalldo, Hipiti, Swapidy, Atticous, Speeksy, WotWentWrong, NewsUp, Symbyoz, Springshot, Traverie.
Social + Sharing + Charity = SocialSharity.com
A Malaysian crowd-funding platform for busy people to play a part and create an impact in other’s lives. Crowdfunding is growing fast as a fastgrowing concept, and with VCs deploying new resources and energies in the Asian market, we have no doubt that philanthropy combined with social funding will be a home run.
