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About Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd
Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd is the corporate venture capital arm of the Reliance ADA Group. Since its inception in early 2006, the company has advised and / or invested in deals to the tune of over $4 billion. Stage, geographic and sector agnostic in its investment philosophy, Reliance Venture Asset Management has a global portfolio to its credit and has invested in promising companies such as India's largest online travel portal, Yatra.com, Suvidhaa Infoserve, Stoke Inc, Pelago Inc, Sequans Communications, E-Band Communications, Seedfund and two MIT-startups, Dhama Innovations and Scalable Display Technologies. Some of the transactions they had advised the Reliance ADA Group on include the $300 million all-cash acquisition of San Francisco-based, Yipes Inc. by Reliance Communications, $82 million acquisition of UK-based, Vanco plc, and eWaveWorld, a $500 million initiative to bring 3G and 4G to 50 countries around the world by 2012. Headed by Mr. Harshal J. Shah, an MBA alumnus of Wharton School of Business, a Truman Gray Scholar with dual degrees from MIT, and an Andover Scholar from Phillips Academy in Andover, USA, the company comprises of professionals who bring over 50 years of cumulative experience and a solid academic base (MBAs - Ivy League, Technologists from premier Indian & International Universities & Chartered Accountants). The company was recently ranked 30th in the Red Herring Top 100 Global Venture Capital Firms in 2009 and was the only India based corporate VC company to feature in the ranking.
For more information on the company, kindly log on to www.relianceventure.com/
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
Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$7.5 billion in approximately 1,000 companies in 45 countries. In that timeframe, 168 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 212 were acquired or participated in a merger. Notable exits in India include Rediff, NIIT, Sasken Technlogies, Indiainfoline, Sharekhan and Nipuna. In 2007 Intel Capital invested about US$639 million in 166 deals with approximately 37 percent of funds invested outside the United States. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages,
www.intelcapital.com
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