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Scott Darling, president of Dell Technologies Capital the venture capital and corporate development arm of Dell responsible for mergers and acquisitions said the combined entity now enjoys a stronger financial muscle, enabling it to look at more “aggressive“ investments.
“We now have more capital available for investments than some of our competitors,“ Darling told ET on the sidelines of the Dell EMC World Conference at Austin.
“Michael Dell (CEO of Dell) is encouraging me to step up the pace of investments in a rational fashion.“ “We are active investors and actually are pretty aggressive in investments for our size. We have just brought the teams together (in India),“ said Darling.
“We are enthusiastic believers in the IT industry in India ... I have some proposals for investments from India on my desk as we speak.“
The proposals received from India include “an enterprise infrastructure deal in the storage space and a SaaS company,“ Darling said.
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He said his VC arm typically looks at 400-500 proposals a year. “We are not a pure financial investor. Anything we invest in, we obviously want it to do well. But it needs to be strategically aligned to us as a company in the areas we are interested in,“ he said, without quantifying the proposals. The broad areas that the VC arm is looking to invest globally include storage, virtualisation, cloud, big data and IoT.
(The writer was in Austin on a trip sponsored by Dell)