As a part of our #Outlook14 series, we asked Venture Capital firms, Angel Investment Firms and Accelerators – Nexus Venture Partners, Jungle Ventures, KAE Capital, Helion Venture Partners, LightSpeed Venture Partners, Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels, Info Edge, One97 and Times Internet about their focus areas for 2014, and the challenges that the digital ecosystem needs to address. MediaNama: What were the top developments in the digital (Internet/Mobile) industry in 2013 Suvir Sujan, Nexus Venture Partners: - Indian Ecommerce has seen meaningful scale for the first time in 2013 Amit Anand, Jungle Ventures: - Growth in smartphones is fast reaching escape velocity. Pervasiveness of smartphones with internet connections will create a digital ecosystem in India with different dynamics from what we are used to today. - Exits @ RedBus, Viki, travelmob are early signs of a rapidly maturing and robust startup ecosystem across Asia. Navin Honagudi/Sasha Mirchandani, KAE Capital: - Platform / aggregation plays – Organizing the fragmented - Move of ecommerce companies towards marketplace - SMEs migrating to cloud support / infrastructure Rahul Chowdhri, Helion Venture Partners: - Mobile has now become ubiquitous across consumer and enterprise companies. - Many ecommerce companies have realised that inventory lead models are more capex heavy and require specialised skill sets. Hence several of them have either pivoted towards a marketplace model or more JIT inventory management. - Several e-commerce companies have started focussing on growing the business keeping unit level profitability in mind. Dev Khare, LightSpeed Venture Partners: - Android going from 15M…
