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SVB Financial Group

SVB Financial Group provides diversified financial services to emerging, growth and established technology companies and the life science, private equity and premium wine markets. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB Financial Group provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients' success.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., the company offers its clients commercial, investment, merchant and private banking, as well as value-added services using its knowledge and networks. Founded in 1983, SVB Financial Group serves nearly 11,000 clients around the world through 27 domestic offices, three international subsidiaries in the U.K., India and China, and an extensive network of relationships with venture capitalists in Asia, Australia, Europe, India, and Israel.

Sierra Ventures is a private venture capital firm focusing its investments in Information Technology companies. Our current investments include companies based in the United States, Canada, China and India. We work with entrepreneurs and management teams to originate and build new companies into large, profitable businesses.

Sierra Ventures manages nine venture capital partnerships, which together have more than $1.5 billion of committed capital.

Net4

Net4 is a leading IP Communications services and solutions company, focused on providing services to businesses. It has a PAN Indian presence, encompassing a wide array of IP solutions and services like Data Center services, Web Hosting Services, Corporate Email/Messaging solutions, VoIP services & solutions and Networking & IT Hardware products & integration.

Net4 is headquartered in Noida and has offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Kolkota, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune. Net4’s team consists of over 325 members across all its departments. 

Net4 operates 7 Internet Data Centers across the country and was the first IP Communications Company in the world to receive the prestigious IS0 27001 certification for Information Security. These data centers, built using the world’s best technology provide 24x7x365 customer support and are equipped with state of the art security, monitoring and management systems. Net4 is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company for  Quality Management systems and an ICANN and .IN accredited Domain name Registrar.

With an STM4 connectivity to the Internet backbone, Net4 services 600 Corporate Data Center  customers, 2500 Business VoIP customers,  75000 hosted websites,  2 million corporate e-mail accounts and  2.5 lac registered domain names.

Net4, pioneered the VoIP call shop model in India under the brand “Phonewala”, with an aim to take low cost international calling to masses. It now operates over 3000 Internet telephony call shops across 45 cities. Phonewala provides International calls to as many as 44 countries at Re.1 per minute.

Xchanging

Xchanging is a fast-growing international, pure play business process outsourcing company providing complex industry specific processing to the banking and insurance industries such as securities processing, commercial insurance premiums and claims processing. Xchanging also provides procurement, finance and accounting, and human resources services to customers across industries. With over 3800 people, Xchanging services customers across 34 countries.

SIDBI Ventures

Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), as the apex Financial Institution for the Small & Medium Scale Sector, has been playing a very active role in the evolution of Venture Capital financing in the country. To support the risk capital requirements of the sector, it has been making direct investments in units and contributing to the corpus of other national and state level venture capital funds. Including the funds sponsored by it and the contribution to various state / national level funds, it has emerged as one of the largest VC players in the country.

Lumis Partners

Lumis Partners, an Operating Private Equity group with interests in Healthcare, IT/ITeS, & Education/Training, is formed by senior professionals with years of highly pedigreed backgrounds in running hi-tech P&Ls, outsourcing, creating new practices & centers of excellences, M&A, and running global initiatives in companies such as GE, 3Com, Genpact, Oracle, and PwC. The fund’s core team coupled with the operating nature and stature of the investor make Lumis uniquely positioned to play a partner’s role in its chosen investments.

The fund’s philosophy is to augment medium & small mid-stage organizations in operating processes, in access to leadership resources, and in strategic planning (positioning, acquisitions, channels, etc.), alongside equity capital infusion. This philosophy goes hand in hand with our operating model, which is to have only a handful investments so that bandwidth can be significantly apportioned to each of the partner and affords us commitments that can be honored beyond the constraints of time or effort required to make each one of our partners a luminous success!

With a clear emphasis on operating participation, Lumis Partners invests solely in organizations where stakeholders desire Lumis’ operational expertise and hands-on involvement.

CERT Group

The CERT Group of Companies is the commercial arm of the Higher Colleges of Technology.  The education division of the CERT Group is the largest private provider of higher education in the Middle East.  Several technology companies have been developed by CERT working in collaboration with large multi-national corporations such as Honeywell, Microsoft Alcatel and IBM.  CERT operates the only supercomputer in the Middle East – the IBM Bluegene. CERT has holdings in RFID, Telematics and systems integration technology.

Connectgaia

www.connectgaia.com’ is a revolutionary product launched by KLG Systel Limited. It is a solution to the power crisis on a micro level and global warming on the macro level through a web based solutionprovided by IBM.

KLG Systel Limited (www.klgsystel.net) is a leading US $ 100 million Knowledge Company in India quoted on the NSE (India) and the Luxembourg Exchange, Europe. The company has worked in the Power Sector for the last fourteen years gaining and imparting knowledge and expertise in deploying IT-centric, organisation-life-cycle software solutions, consultancy, support and training and services to organizations in the process, power, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors.

Zee Business

Zee Business was launched as India's first Hindi business channel on November 30, 2004. The channel is positioned as a mass channel and is targeted at the small investor who till then had virtually no option. Being Hindi, Its punch line Aapka Faayda is synonymous with content and every programme that runs on Zee Business. The genesis being that there is was no business channel that delivers information, which is for a larger, family audience. 

By its aggressive programming, Zee Business has redefined business news viewership in India. Today, business channels are watched as much in the evening and the weekends as during trading hours. Our weekend programming has been the first ever in any business channel and has taken viewership of this genre to a new high. Zee Business has some 18 weekly programmes across various genres.

In its short journey, Zee Business has been conferred the "Best Business Channel" award two years running at the Consumer World Awards. In April this year, Zee Business was conferred as the "Best Business Channel" in India at the prestigious RAPA awards. Our automobile show Wheelocity and our weekly talk show Swadesh got awards in their respective categories by RAPA as well. 

TARASPAN Group

The TaraSpan Group accelerates value creation and business growth for both emerging and established technology companies by providing strategic advisory services on new venture growth and funding, mergers and acquisitions, turnaround situations, India market entry strategies and offshore software product development.

Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, the TaraSpan Group has successfully raised over $45 million in new venture funding, transacted M&A deals between Canada and India, developed offshore strategies for both midsize and multinational companies, and introduced numerous Canadian companies to the Indian market.

Religare

Religare, a Ranbaxy promoter group company, is one of the leading integrated financial services institutions of India. The company offers a diverse bouquet of services, broadly clubbed across three key business verticals - Retail, Wealth Management and the Institutional Spectrums. The services range from equities, commodities and insurance broking to wealth advisory, portfolio management services, personal financial services, investment banking and institutional broking services. Religare Enterprises Limited is the holding company for all its businesses, while being operated and structured through various subsidiaries. Religare’s retail network spreads across the length and breadth of the country with its presence in 1217 locations across 392 cities and towns. Having spread itself fairly well across the country and with the promise of not resting on its laurels, it has also aggressively started eyeing global geographies.

Recently, Religare has also partnered with AEGON, one of the largest insurance and pension companies globally, to offer insurance and mutual fund products to Indian consumers and signed a Joint Venture Agreement with Macquarie Bank Limited, a
pre-eminent provider of investment banking and financial services, to expand Religare’s wealth management business.

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