Comments on: VC investment in India small but steady

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By: India’s VC investment sees second-highest quarter on record » VentureBeat

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:21:14 +0000

[...] interesting to see venture investment increase so dramatically, more than doubling the money invested during a relatively slow Q1. The biggest industry was businesses and financial services (which includes advertising), which [...]

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NoDomainsForSale — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:13:54 +0000

India’s lack of a secondary market for bonds, and other holes in its financial infrastructure, cause an excess reliance on stocks and serve as a drag on business innovation.

Huge untapped rural labor reserves give India a growth potential in manufacturing that may not become fully engaged for another five or six years. India will rival China as the world’s manufacturer.

In the short term, there is a huge opportunity for offshoring of travel agency and ticket booking services from the U.S., where the average annual income for travel agents is over $40,000. It takes substantial capitalization, training and lead time to set up a new facility with trained staff to handle this type of work, which has contributed to a bottleneck of travel projects waiting to move.

By: Markz

Markz — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:42:08 +0000

If you're going to make inter-country comparisons, you need to adjust for the difference in the purchasing power of a dollar (i.e. for either price index or purchasing power parity). So, $1 in India goes 3-6x further than $1 in the US.* That means a $4 million average investment in India is equivalent to a $12-$24 million investment in a US company (let's say ~$18 million in India compared to $7 million in the US).

However, that doesn't account for outsourcing by the US company, so let's say the comparable US-backed company outsources 33% of its costs back to a country like India. If you factor that in, the average India VC investment on a roughly equivalent basis is ~$12 million, compared to $7 million in the US.

So, bottom line is that the average investments overseas seem to be significantly larger than in the US.

*see for example World Bank's purchasing power & price indices at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ICPINT/Resou...

By: Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:22:16 +0000

Aficionados of Indian Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship may want to read this series, Vision India 2020: http://sramanamitra.com/2008/05/06/vision-india...