From Students to Shareholders: Hyderabad’s Niveshak Shivir Guides Investors to Safeguard Wealth

Under the aegis of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority, Ministry of Corporates Affairs, jointly organised Niveshak Shivir in Hyderabad on 30th August 2025 at Haryana Bhavan, Secunderabad. This outreach initiative aimed to assist shareholders in reclaiming unpaid dividends and unclaimed shares, thereby reducing the volume of unclaimed investor assets in the system, while also empowering investors to safeguard their investments.

The Shivir was organized in collaboration with leading Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs) including BSE, NSE, NSDL and the Registrar and Transfer Agents (RTAs) – KFin Technologies Limited, Bigshare Services Private Limited, Purva Sharegistry India Private Limited and MUFG Infoline Private Limited. Attendees included students, entrepreneurs, retail investors, and corporate professionals.

The event was graced by Smt. Anita Shah Akella, CEO of IEPFA and Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs; Shri Jeevan Sonparote, Executive Director, SEBI; Shri Sunil Jayawant Kadam, Executive Director, SEBI; Lt. Col Aditya Sinha, General Manager, IEPFA; Shri Binod Sharma, General Manager, SEBI; along with other senior officials from SEBI, IEPFA, MIIs, and RTAs.

Additionally, IEPFA and SEBI, along with other MIIs, launched an insightful Investor Guide developed by CDSL. The guide provides a step-by-step process to help investors resolve their queries related to the claims process.

Silicon Valley-based Indian Investor Asha Jadeja Launches Investment Firm in Pakistan

In an interesting piece of news, Palo Alto, California-based Indian Investor Asha Jadeja has started a Pakistan edition of her successful international venture capital firm, Dot Edu Ventures.

Dot Edu Ventures invests seed stage in technology startups often emerging out of universities and research institutions. It is a university based network of friends, spanning computer science, design, engineering faculty, students, and alumni at various US universities.

The well reputed Venture Capital has officially flagged the launch of Dot Edu Ventures (DEV) Global in Pakistan. In fact, the fund has already seeded 5 IT startups in Pakistan and has plans to further expand their investment portfolio in the coming few months.

The mompreneur has invested in DIY Geeks, a startup inculcating a sense of DIY- Do It Yourself- culture in the students of Pakistan and enabling them to take control of their education by physically practising it on their own individual level via their DIY Kits; Daftwarkhwan, a Pakistan-based coworking space building a community of entrepreneurs, startups and professionals driven towards innovating, sharing and growing together. Asha, who has invested in over a 100 startups which were acquired or became public companies (Google, Paypal, Cisco, and Citrix to name a few), is also supporting Maker movement in Pakistan by encouraging innovation, giving grants to innovators and community building among the scientists, engineers, and innovators.

Earlier in the year, Asha also made a guest appearance in Pakistan’s First Business Reality Show, Idea Croron Ka and gave away a generous $100,000 as an equity-free grant to the founder of DIY Geeks.

Dot Edu Ventures is on a lookout to target the emerging economies of the world. Apart from Pakistan, it has invested in a number of startups in other developing countries like India and Kenya.

Though currently in its nascent stage, Pakistan Startup ecosystem is slowly but steadily evolving everyday. The coming up of incubators, accelerators and university research and innovation units in the country has contributed to the quality of business support services available to startups.

Founded in March 2000 by Asha Jadeja and her late husband Rajeev Motwani, Dot Edu began as a small core group of entrepreneurial friends at Stanford and UC Berkeley. It is now an extensive network of computer science and engineering faculty at various universities, including CMU, MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U Penn, Princeton, Washington University, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara.

According to the VC firm’s website, the firm prefers disruptive ideas and technologies and looks forward to helping more and more founders build a business from the ground up around such ideas.

This development was first reported in TechJuice.

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US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan Are Most Active Investors in Indian Tech Startups

Indian startup industry has established a reputation of its own in the world. The third largest startup ecosystem in the world has had an eventful journey so far and has constantly climbed the popularity charts among investors worldwide.

According to a recent CB Insights report, investors from the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and UK have had an encouraging confidence in the Indian tech Startup Ecosystem and have been some of the most active foreign participants in India’s startup deals over the past five years. Among these, US-based investors have been the most active participants.

The report also mentioned that with over 800 equity deals being made over the five years period, the US-based investors have also emerged as the second most active grouping since the year 2012, after India or Mauritius-based investors.

While US-based investors occupy the numero uno position on the list of most active foreign investors, Singapore with five per cent of the deals, Hong Kong with three per cent, Japan with two per cent and UK with one per cent take up second, third, fourth and fifth position respectively.

The CB Insights report also revealed that not only have US-based investors invested their money in Indian Startup Ecosystem, they have invested money in some of the most popular startups in the Indian subcontinent. For example, Tiger Global has backed in numerable Indian startup superstars, such as Flipkart, Ola, and ShopClues. Another major foreign investor in the Indian startup land, is Japan-based Softbank which recently pumped in a whopper USD 1.4 billion investment in Indian e-wallet major Paytm.

Another major head turned in the Indian Investor space, is Hong Kong-based Saif Partners, which has successfully closed a large number of deals as well since the past five years. The firm has backed popular Indian startups such as Paytm and Urban Ladder

“Excluding India and Mauritius, deal participation is heavily tilted toward investors from the United States, which has seen 800 disclosed equity deals to Indian startups since 2012 — more than four times the number of deals by investors from Singapore,” read the report.

It is interesting to note that India and Mauritius-based investors make up for a whopping 61 per cent of the startup deals taking place in the South Asian country. Foreign investors have shown major confidence in the ecosystem and invested large amounts of cash. US-based Accel Partners has made its largest investment in Indian ecommerce titan Flipkart through the overseas unit rather than its Indian unit.

Foreign investments are now expected to get a major push because of the recently released government order allowing convertible notes as a fundraising option for startups from foreign individuals into early-stage firms. Last week, India’s Commerce Ministry in its consolidated FDI policy document, for the first time included startups, which can raise up to 100 per cent of funds from Foreign Venture Capital Investor (FVCI).

US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan Are Most Active Investors in Indian Tech Startups

Indian startup industry has established a reputation of its own in the world. The third largest startup ecosystem in the world has had an eventful journey so far and has constantly climbed the popularity charts among investors worldwide.

According to a recent CB Insights report, investors from the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and UK have had an encouraging confidence in the Indian tech Startup Ecosystem and have been some of the most active foreign participants in India’s startup deals over the past five years. Among these, US-based investors have been the most active participants.

The report also mentioned that with over 800 equity deals being made over the five years period, the US-based investors have also emerged as the second most active grouping since the year 2012, after India or Mauritius-based investors.

While US-based investors occupy the numero uno position on the list of most active foreign investors, Singapore with five per cent of the deals, Hong Kong with three per cent, Japan with two per cent and UK with one per cent take up second, third, fourth and fifth position respectively.

The CB Insights report also revealed that not only have US-based investors invested their money in Indian Startup Ecosystem, they have invested money in some of the most popular startups in the Indian subcontinent. For example, Tiger Global has backed in numerable Indian startup superstars, such as Flipkart, Ola, and ShopClues. Another major foreign investor in the Indian startup land, is Japan-based Softbank which recently pumped in a whopper USD 1.4 billion investment in Indian e-wallet major Paytm.

Another major head turned in the Indian Investor space, is Hong Kong-based Saif Partners, which has successfully closed a large number of deals as well since the past five years. The firm has backed popular Indian startups such as Paytm and Urban Ladder

“Excluding India and Mauritius, deal participation is heavily tilted toward investors from the United States, which has seen 800 disclosed equity deals to Indian startups since 2012 — more than four times the number of deals by investors from Singapore,” read the report.

It is interesting to note that India and Mauritius-based investors make up for a whopping 61 per cent of the startup deals taking place in the South Asian country. Foreign investors have shown major confidence in the ecosystem and invested large amounts of cash. US-based Accel Partners has made its largest investment in Indian ecommerce titan Flipkart through the overseas unit rather than its Indian unit.

Foreign investments are now expected to get a major push because of the recently released government order allowing convertible notes as a fundraising option for startups from foreign individuals into early-stage firms. Last week, India’s Commerce Ministry in its consolidated FDI policy document, for the first time included startups, which can raise up to 100 per cent of funds from Foreign Venture Capital Investor (FVCI).

12 New Startups Get funding of Rs 85 Crore in Pitch@Rashtrapati Bhavan

Yesterday saw 12 new Indian ventures getting Rs 85cr in funding in the Capital city, New Delhi. Pitch@Rahstrapati Bhavan, a startup event organised by the Presidential Residence on March 7, 2017 in partnership with Industry body, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) was responsible for making this possible.

The programme, which was a part of the third Festival of Innovation (FOIN), aimed to provide a platform to both investors and startups to come together and talks business. The event saw a number of innovators and startups selling their innovative ideas/services/products to some selected members of the venture capital and angel investing community to rake in funding.

For the uninitiated, FOIN is a week-long annual event, launched in 2015 by the Indian President to recognise, respect and reward grassroots innovations and foster a supportive ecosystem. The 2017 kickstarted on March 4, 2017.

In total, the Pitch@Rahstrapati Bhavan startup event saw the participation of 31 startups, 9 innovators and 12 venture capitalists (VCs). Some of the important names which graced the event were Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and Infosys co-founder S Gopalakrishnan.

Towards the end of the event, VCs and investors had exchanged funding agreement/ MoUs to the tune of Rs 85 crore($12.75 Mn) with 12 Indian startups working in the areas of fintech, e-commerce, automobile, healthcare, medical devices, human resource management, life sciences, and unorganised retail in the presence of the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.

According to CII, the ultimate goal of the programme is to nurture India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and create ample opportunities for its vast young population, to generate wealth and find gainful employment.

The Pitch@Rahstrapati Bhavan startup event saw India's Rashtrapati Bhavan positioning itself as one of the key promoters of the burgeoning Indian startup ecosystem and extending a helping hand in establishing a dialogue between investors and Indian startups and assisting the latter in finding adequate funding and effective mentorship.