DISQUS

VentureBeat: Lightspeed Venture Partners raises fresh $800M global fund, looking to China and India

  • free bet · 1 year ago
    well, I would deffinately try China over India...the future of this country is just exhilarating in terms of economic throughput
  • sramana · 1 year ago
    Raising these larger funds have nothing to do with India being capital starved and such:
    http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/07/forbes-colum...

    It has everything to do with the greed for bigger Management Fees:
    http://sramanamitra.com/2008/04/11/forbes-colum...
  • Matt Bowman · 1 year ago
    Nice rundown, Chris. Seems the worse the economy gets, the more big money gets diverted to VC (and via them, oversees).
    I spoke with Ravi last week about the new fund--the 1.5-minute version is up here: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/27033
  • Anthony Kuhn · 1 year ago
    Chris: The East and India are once again the focus of entrepreneurial expansion, as they have been in the distant past. Interesting to think that America is no longer the focus of VC funding efforts. I can see, though, that the new force in consumption will be billions of Indians and Chinese, so that's where the money's going to go. I wonder how the Chinese vegetable garden is growing these days? Full of poisonous fertilizers and lead?