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• Komfort Pets Climate Controlled Crate Keeps K9 Cool (or Warm)

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, 2001, 506, 537, 322, 235

  Dogs and cats everywhere rejoice! No longer will you be relegated to sit and bake in the backseat of the car. Instead, the Komfort Pets Carrier automatically will cool you off once your crate breaks 72 degrees. Conversely, if it goes below 65 degrees, on goes the heat to keep you from turning into a pup-sicle. Keeping your pet comfortable is going

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• Minekey Gets $3 Million In Series A Funding from NEA IndoUS Ventures

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:11 am

  Tags: 441, 235

  Minekey, a company that enables content discovery on the Internet via widgets, has received $3 million in Series A funding led by NEA-IndoUS Ventures. Minekey was founded by Delip Andra in 2005 and incubated at IIT Kharagpur. It's headquartered at Sunnyvale, California. By the looks of it, the company seems to have a publisher focus, also allowing

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• Minekey Gets $3 Million In Series A Funding from NEA IndoUS Ventures

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:59 am

  Tags: 441, 235

  Minekey, a company that enables content discovery on the Internet via widgets, has received $3 million in Series A funding led by NEA-IndoUS Ventures. Minekey was founded by Delip Andra in 2005 and incubated at IIT Kharagpur. It's headquartered at Sunnyvale, California. By the looks of it, the company seems to have a publisher focus, also allowing

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• MapMyIndia Gets Over $2.5 Million In Funding From Nexus India Capital

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:44 am

  Tags: 236, 235

  Nexus India Capital has announced that it has invested over Rs. 10 crore (around $2.5 million) in CE Infosystems, the Geographical Information Systems company that runs MapMyIndia. Suvir Sujan, MD Nexus India Capital has joined the board of CE Infosystems. This is the second round of funding for CE Infosystems: we'd earlier broken the story that

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• Sequoia Capital MD On Investing In Fropper And Minglebox

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:06 am

  Tags: 441, 235

  Sequoia Capital India MD Sumir Chadha was put on the spot about investment in Fropper and Minglebox in an interview by CNBC-TV18. [via VC Circle] Chadha says "We do not back competitors, so we look at these properties even that they may appear from the outside to be competitive - they have very different focuses, very different user bases and we

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• VC Roundup: Sequoia Capital India III - $280 Million; Clearstone - $400 Million

  Published: August 16, 2007, 3:14 am

  Tags: 235

  -- Sequoia Capital India has nearly finished raising capital for a $280 million fund for early stage investing, reports SiliconValley.com. The fund - called Sequoia Capital India III - has so far raised $264.5 million, as per a regulatory filing from August 2 which was first reported in VentureWire. -- Clearstone Venture Partners is planning

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• Sequoia Closes $300 Million India Fund

  Published: August 18, 2007, 12:16 am

  Tags: 235

  We'd mentioned earlier that Sequoia Capital India is about to close a $280 million fund, and now here's the announcement, via BS: the Sequoia Capital India III fund is around $300 Million, and will focus on high growth, early stage companies. So far, Sequoia Capital India has invested in 35 companies, including: Applabs, Bharti Telesoft, Cafe

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• VIOlight Travel Toothbrush Sanitizer, for Germophobes on the Run

  Published: August 20, 2007, 12:11 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, 374, 940, 202, 235, 492

  Out here on the toothbrush beat, you run into all sorts of fear-mongering products such as the VIOlight Toothbrush Sanitizer. Now you can take that germophobia out on the road with the VIOlight Travel Toothbrush Sanitizer, a smaller version of that near-miraculous home version that probably does no good but might make you feel better anyway. Just

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• Canaan Partners Invests $5.25 million In Interactive Media Co Cellcast Asia

  Published: August 21, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: 228, 247, 235

  Canaan Partners has led a $5.25 million Series A investment in Cellcast Asia Holdings, an interactive digital broadcaster. In India, Cellcast produces live, interactive pay-to-play programming like Bid2Win in India, and leverages the mobile extensively. Interestingly, they had launched PlayTV in association with Zee, but exited that venture,

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• Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels Eye More Investments

  Published: August 21, 2007, 11:11 pm

  Tags: 235

  According to this article in the Business Standard, angel investors' groups Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Mumbai Angels are planning to make several new investments in the coming months. Indian Angel Network is planning investments in two more companies and is also planning on forming a fund versus the current practice of just individual

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• VC Greylock Venture Makes India Debut via TechProcess funding

  Published: August 22, 2007, 4:51 am

  Tags: 235

  U.S. venture capital firm Greylock Venture Partners, which has about $2 billion under management, has made its India entry. [via Business Standard] The firm, which has backed Facebook, made its first Indian investment through the growth-stage venture funding of TechProcess (formerly BillJunction) via its $500 million global fund. Plans are

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• Dubai Investment Group Picks Up 40 Percent In Time Broadband

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: 232, 247, 235

  The Dubai Investment Group has picked up 40 percent state in Indian IPTV company Time Broadband via their subsidiary Dubai Ventures, as per a release. Now, last year, Time Broadband Co-founder and CFO Tushar Shah had told Contentsutra in an interview that they had divested 33 percent stake for Rs. 25 crore to Dubai based Clarion Group. So I was

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• Report: Sequoia Capital To Raise $500 Million Fund

  Published: August 23, 2007, 9:08 am

  Tags: 235

  Never mind all that talk about a global liquidity crunch, mortgages and non performing assets...Business Standard reports that Sequoia Capital India, after recently closing a $300 million fund, is considering raising another fund with a corpus of around $500 million. The fund is expected to be in place by next year. Sequoia has not confirmed the

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• Creative Travelsound i50 Dock Big Enough to Eat Your Shuffle

  Published: August 24, 2007, 6:45 am

  Tags: Portable, 1165, 158, 235

  The Travelsound i50 is a portable speaker for the iPod Shuffle from Creative Japan. Attach it to your Shuffle and suddenly you've got what looks like a very cool, very Vegas-baby, retro-style Ronson cigarette lighter that plays your tunes. Charge the lithium polymer battery up via USB and it'll give you 15 hours of playback. An LED display

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• Stealth Social Net Masala Gets $4.5 Million First Round Funding

  Published: August 27, 2007, 1:49 am

  Tags: 441, 235

  (By Rafat Ali on Paidcontent) Masala, a still-in-stealth San Francisco-based social networking startup, has raised $4.5 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by VantagePoint Venture Partners, according to a regulatory filing, picked up by PEHub. The company is run by onetime Sevin Rosen Funds partner Amra Tareen.

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