August - 2014 - issue > VC talk
A Wonderful Time to be Entrepreneurs in India
Anupam Rastogi
Principal-Nokia Growth Partners
Areas of Focus & Emerging Technologies to Bet On
There is immense ongoing innovation surrounding the mobility space. NGP has always focused on mobility and within that space, we have outlined five key investment areas that we have focused on for a decade and built up strong thematic expertise in. In each of our areas, we see long term fundamental shifts and disruption which creates good investment opportunities. Those areas include:
Local Commerce driven by deeper digital intermediation of offline consumption, SMBs coming online and the rise of the sharing economy. Investment examples include India's Quikr and Ganji, Quikr's equivalent in China.
Mobile Enterprise driven by the ongoing shift of enterprise software from premise-based monolithic systems to the "mobile+cloud" paradigm. Investments include NetMagic and Kaltura among others.
Big Data, Analytics & AdTech driven by a number of disruptive shifts in advertising towards technology-driven programmatic buying using AI and algorithms as well as a need for larger data management capacities and analytics driven businesses. Here great examples of companies we have invested in are Rocket Fuel, PubMatic and Vizury.
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