Wednesday, January 10, 2007

China vs. India for media/information VC?

Has anybody had a serious look at the different amounts of VC funding flowing into India and China in terms of media, information and web services? This contentsutra.com post about $10mn being invested in Indian Google look-alike search engine Guruji.com made me think. I see deals like this all the time on that site.

I reported yesterday on the miserly trickle of VC funding into Chinese social networking sites and, with a few big exceptions, Web 2.0 doesn't seem to be attracting big flows of VC or private equity money into China. Am I wrong?

If anybody's up to funding a proper study of that, do let me know. We'd be pleased to oblige :-)

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