Hundreds of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni and faculty congregated in Silicon Valley for the 3-day Global Pan IIT Conference 2007.
Spekers included Jeff Immelt of GE, Arun Sarin of Vodofone, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, Rajat Gupta of McKinsey, Senator Clinton (via satellite), Umang Gupta and others.
I caught up with Hemendra Godbole who was a volunteer and co-chairman of the content group to find out the purpose and goal of holding this conference and also what motivates him to volunteer?
Dominating this week’s round-up are investment and merger and acquisition news.
Topping the investment this week is SKS Microfinance that received $11.5 million in investments. The investment round was led by Sequoia Capital. Other investors include Unitus Equity Fund, Vinod Khosla, Ravi Reddy, Odyssey Capital, SIDBI.
Mumbai-based Games2win received $5 million ...
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