The Global Ranking of Startup Funding Ecosystems

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The Global Ranking of Startup Funding Ecosystems

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 G. Sabarinathan News and events Opinion 0

by G.Sabarinathan, PhD1 So, for all the excitement about being India’s Silicon Valley and so on, Bangalore seems to be ranked 33rd among startup cities in the world. That is what I noticed from PitchBook’s (PB) survey of October 2023.2 The scoring methodology PB’s list identifies the top fifty cities in terms of Venture Capital (VC) financing activity. And its survey ranks cities on two different top level dimensions, namely development and growth. Development itself is measured in terms of size and maturity. Size comprises value and number of deals…

The High and Lows of Indian business: Four stories unravelled G. Sabarinathan shares his takeaways from Nandini Vijayaraghavan’s recent book, ‘Unfinished Business’

March 25, 2023March 28, 2023 G. Sabarinathan Case Studies FEATURED 1

I first heard about Nandini Vijayaraghavan a couple of years ago, when a friend of mine forwarded a short review of her translation of Shri Krishnamoorthy’s Tamil classic, Sivakamiyin Sabadam (Sivakami’s Vow). Tamilians of my generation, and that of my parents, grew up waiting for serialized version of this and his other novels in the Tamil weekly, Kalki. You can get a glimpse of Shri Krishnamoorthy’s life and work at https://www.thehindu.com/books/how-kalki-penned-ponniyin-selvan-dipping-into-archival-books-in-an-old-steel-trunk/article65949508.ece and https://www.thehindu.com/books/kalki-krishnamurthy-his-life-and-times-more-than-just-a-biography/article65296015.ece Unfinished Business is no work of fiction, although as Vijayaraghavan notes in the book, quoting Aldous Huxley,…