India has the fast growing mobile market in the world, and Bangalore is the hotbed of mobile innovations and start-ups. Mobile search is the new hot word in India, and Ziva Software wants to be a significant player in this area.

The one-year-old mobile search company is located in an ...

The amount of funding received by tech start-ups in India appears to be shrinking if we go by some recent investments. Moveo Systems recently received a new round of angel funding from undisclosed investors. Ziva software, a mobile search company, received about $1.5 million from Nadathur ...

Entrepreneur Pankaj Jain is bootstrapping his mobile start-up, Taxila Lab, and is on the verge of releasing his product soon. Though Taxila Lab is still in stealth mode, Pankaj agreed to talk to us about his company and its new product in broad terms - it has something to do ...

At the recent Clean Tech Venture Network Conference in San Francisco, Nora McDevitt interviewed Dave Jones of Live Fuels, Inc. This start-up is developing biofuel technologies using algae. Algae multiplies so quickly and produces so much oxygen that it could reverse the “Carbon Dioxide Problem.” Unlike ...

WiLife COO, Grant Beckmann, talks about managing growth in start-up companies. During the past 18 years, Beckmann has worked with some of Utah’s fastest-growing startups, including Folio (now FAST), Tenfold, NextPage, and WiLife. He discusses what he has learned about hiring, communicating with employees, and ...

How do you get to be the CEO of a start-up that plans to take on some of the hottest properties in online video sharing? Motionbox CEO Chris O’Brien discusses the competitive landscape he’s gotten to know, as well as a more personal look at his career path leading up ...

The IPO season is underway in India. Media company Global Broadcast News, which operates CNN and other news channels, went IPO earlier this week. It listed on both the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.

Bangalore-based MindTree Consulting is going IPO on the Indian stock exchange. ...

Online movie rentals are turning out to be a big business in India. This may not be that surprising, considering the sheer volume of movies produced in India each year, but it still represents a lot of money, and a lot of potential for growth.

All that potential is what ...

Media- and entertainment-related funding appears to be the trend with angel investors. Recently, MadHouse Media, a movie rental start-up, received their first round of investment from angel investors. The investors included the Band of Angels, Mumbai Angels and some private investors.

Dr. Kumar Shiralagi joined NEA IndoUS Fund which ...

Dr. Girish Saraph is the founder of Vegayan Systems, a networking start-up company located in IIT, Mumbai.

Vegayan Systems was one of the three winners of the TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurship challenge that was announced at the TiE entrepreneurial conference ( Dec.17-19 , 2006), in Mumbai.

As one of ...

Food and entertainment are two strong consumer markets in India and Matrix Partners India appears to have honed in on this burgeoning market. Chinese food is the second most popular cuisine in India and recently Yo!China, a Chinese restaurant chain, received $10 million in funding from Matrix Partners ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2006 (PodTech News) — Samsung’s plan to introduce its OneDRAM fusion memory in 2007 could mean much speedier smartphones. The company announced the device this week, amid the year-end predictions from analysts and enthusiasts for everything from cell phones to start-ups. We look to the ...

Netflix meets Fedex is how Raghav Kher describes his online movie rental company Seventymm, which he founded in Bangalore in 2005. This is Raghav’s fourth company, and it has recently received a second round of investment of $10 million from Matrix Partners India.

In this interview Raghav discusses why ...

Rishi Navani is the founding managing director of Matrix Partners, India. Rishi has been involved in the Indian investment space for about 10 years and has seen the investment landscape in India undergo a dramatic change in the last few quarters.

Matrix Partners has a $150 million fund and it ...

At the recently concluded TiECon Meeting in New Delhi, TiE and Canaan Partners, along with other partners, announced a business competition for start-ups and businesses.

Canaan Partner’s Alok Mittal discusses the business plan competition: who can participate and what do winners walk away with as their prize?

After ...

That familiar term IPO is making a comeback in India. Info Edge India Pvt Ltd opened its Initial Public Offering for subscription from today through November 2, 2006. Info Edge owns properties like Naukri.com, a job search portal; JeevanSaathi.com, a matchmaking portal and 99acres.com, a real estate ...

Kavita Iyer is CEO of MingleBox, a new Web 2.0 start-up in the social networking space. MingleBox allows members to have personalized Web pages that include their interests, blogs and photos.

Mobile value-added services company OnMobile is reported to have raised $35 million in a new round of funding. According to The Economic Times “OnMobile Systems seems to have closed a fresh round of funding - around $35m - from a group of investors, including Goldman Sachs.”

What do VC’s want in India? What kinds of companies are VCs looking to fund in India? India is an emerging market for all kinds of services, and one of the biggest opportunities is in the telecom and mobile space. Since the start of 2006 a handful of start-ups in the telecom and mobile space have received investments of about $10 million each. Every month since March 2006 over 4 million new mobile subscribers are being added in India.

Back in February this year at Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book launch of “Naked Conversations”, John Furrier engaged Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra in a fascinating discussion about the history of the entrepreneurial culture in India, and how that culture has found fertile grounds in Silicon Valley.

About Manish Chandra:
Manish Chandra arrived in Silicon Valley in 1989. His passion for growing small ideas took shape very early when he left Intel to join a small start-up called Sybase (with less than 80 people) while the valley was going through one of it’s down cycles in 1990. Manish played a variety of development and product management roles at Sybase and left the company in 1995 when it had over 6,000 employees. From there he joined Versata as their 8th employee and was part of the core executive team that took the company public in 2000. His latest venture, Kaboodle, is a consumer internet service that helps simplify people’s lives by letting them collect, organize and share all types of information from shopping, travel to health and real estate. In June, 2006, Kaboodle partnered with eBay to launch MyCollectibles, a service that helps collectors showcase their collections and passions on the web.

LOS ANGELES, September 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a sure sign of things to come, television and movie studios are starting to create original short-form programming for broadband and wireless devices. Warner Brothers Television Group just announced the creation of Studio 2.0, bringing together talent and advertisers to create original live-action and animated programming. Its aim is to license the programming to online sites, portals and wireless providers in collaboration with the recently formed Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. But it’s not just major Hollywood studios getting into the act — Internet start-ups and small production companies also recognize the opportunities, as evidenced by the recent launch of ScriptThis.tv, a website for people who want to be part of the television creation process. PodTech’s Matt Kelly reports.

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PodTech Announces Premier of PodSummit™

PodSummit™ Showcases Leaders of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

MENLO PARK, CA (April 20, 2006) PodTech, a media company dedicated to podcasting and ...

PodTech announces today a new brand and InfoTalk Series called PodSummit. PodSummit is PodTech’s first third party podcast since the company announced the formation of its InfoTalk™ Network of media properties in March 2006. Under the PodSummit™ ...

This is a podcast with CEO of Funambol and CEO of SoonR from the Under the Radar event in November.

Funambol (pronounced “foo-nahm-ball”) comes from the Latin words funis (rope) and ambulare (walking), meaning a tight-rope walker.

Being an open source company means walking on a rope, every day. We must always ...