The Smart Techie was renamed Siliconindia India Edition starting Feb 2012 to continue the nearly two decade track record of excellence of our US edition.
March - 2012 - issue > VC talk
Technology & Innovation to woo Intel Capital
Sudheer Kuppam
Managing Director -Intel Capital
Focus Areas for Investment
For us the most important thing to accomplish is acceleration of broadband penetration and PC penetration in the country. This has been the strategy for all the emerging markets where technology adoption is on the lower end. Last year alone, we made an investment worth $56 million in 17 different verticals. the key area of focus for us is healthcare and education. By healthcare, I refer to technology enabled healthcare services such as record keeping, serving delivery and others.
In education space, we want to enable computing and other infrastructure usage in delivery as well as testing and the preparations. Consumer Internet is another area that has picked our interest. India has seen a tremendous boom in the e-commerce segment and consumers too are no more hesitant to use these services. The idea here is that we want to evangelize technologies such as Internet so that there is an increased adoption of devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.
In enterprise IT, trends such as software-as-a-services and mobility is what we are looking to invest on. The reason being, India is a strong market for software and IT enabled services.
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