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About Reliance Capital Ltd.
Reliance Capital Ltd, Reliance Energy Ltd, and Reliance
Communication Ventures Ltd. are part of the Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai
Ambani Group.
Reliance Capital is one of India's leading private sector financial
services companies, and has a net worth of over Rs 5,200 crore (US$ 1.2
billion). Reliance Capital has interests in asset management and mutual
funds, stock broking, life and general insurance, and other activities
in the financial services sector.
Reliance Energy is India's leading private sector utility group, with
aggregate estimated group revenues of Rs 9,500 crore (US$ 2.2 billion),
and total assets of Rs 10,700 crore (US$ 2.5 billion). The group
distributes nearly 21 billion units of power to over 25 million
consumers in Mumbai, Delhi, Orissa and Goa, across an area covering
1,24,300 sq. kms.
Reliance Communications Ventures Limited is India's largest private
information and communications services provider, with a subscriber base
of over 20 million. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India,
high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice,
data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire
Infocomm value chain.
The Reliance Group was founded by late Shri Dhirubhai H.
Ambani(1932-2002).
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About TV18 Group
Television Eighteen (TV18) is India's premier business and consumer news
broadcaster (CNBC TV18, CNN-IBN and Awaaz) and a leading media content
provider and Internet player (running moneycontrol.com,
commoditiescontrol.com and ibnlive.com). Besides that, it has, over the
last decade, provided prime time television content to almost all
leading satellite channels in India including BBC, Star Plus, Sony
Entertainment Television, Zee, MTV and Discovery. It is among the
fastest growing media companies in India with a CAGR of almost 100%
since its inception in 1993.
Among TV18's promoters are Raghav Bahl, one
of India's foremost television journalists and a brand in his own right,
and Sanjay Ray Chaudhury - television's creative phenomenon and creator
of The India Show (more popularly known as The Amul India Show). CNBC
TV18 is India's leading business news channel. The channel is a joint
venture between CNBC Asia-Pacific and Television Eighteen India Ltd.
TV18 owns studios in New Delhi and Mumbai and has a news gathering
network of over 200 journalists across the country. Turner International
(Turner) and Global Broadcast News (GBN), a TV18 Group Company, also
recently announced a partnership to launch a co-branded, 24-hour,
English-language general news channel/service in India called CNN-IBN.
TV18 has also launched India's first consumer channel, Awaaz, which is
growing at a rapid pace and reaches out to India's huge consuming class.
South Asia World is TV18's international channel.
It is the first
English channel dedicated to South Asian viewers across the world. TV18
also owns and operates largest financial news and information portal -
www.moneycontrol.com
About Norwest Venture
Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) has actively partnered with
entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 45 years. NVP
focuses on investments in information technology including:
semiconductor and components, systems, software, services and
consumer/Internet technologies. The firm currently manages more than
$1.8 billion in venture capital out of its office in Palo Alto,
California, USA. Managing Partner Promod Haque has been ranked as a top
10 dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past three years.
In 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on
performance over the last decade.
NVP has funded over 350 companies since inception. Recent NVP
transactions include Airespace (acquired by Cisco Systems), Resonext
Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices), Spinnaker Networks
(acquired by Network Appliance) and Winphoria Networks (acquired by
Motorola). NVP has also funded such market leaders as Actel Corporation,
Brocade Communications, Cerent (acquired by Cisco Systems), Documentum,
Extreme Networks, Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems),
PeopleSoft and Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM). Additional information
on Norwest Venture Partners is available at
www.nvp.com
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