A “Bansal Mafia” in E-Commerce?
From a TiE Mumbai SmashUp e-poster: We’ve heard of “McKinsey Mafia”, “IIM-A Mafia”, etc. being used to refer to the sheer number of alum of these hallowed institutions that go…
Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures invests $3-M in US-based Social Media Benchmarking firm Unmetric
From the Press Release: Unmetric, a Chicago, USA-headquartered firm with offices in Chennai & Coimbatore in India, has raised $3.2 million in Series A financing led by Nexus Venture Partners.…
Deal Alert: Pragati India Fund invests US$5-M in Jash Engineering
From the Press Release: Pragati India Fund today announced its maiden investment in Indore-based Jash Engineering Limited, a leader in the manufacture of customized engineering goods for water and waste…
Partner Event: World’s best finance minds converging at IVCA CONCLAVE 2012 on April 19
Partner Event Press Release: – IVCA celebrates 10 years of Private Equity and Venture Capital in India– Upbeat promoters to discuss the contribution of Private Equity and Venture Capital business…
Deal Alert: TA Associates investments in online payment firm BillDesk
Edited excerpts from the Press Release: TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, today announced it has acquired a minority stake in BillDesk,India’s largest online payment services company.…
Drying up of mega deals drives PE investments to below $2-B in Q1’12
Secondary transactions rise as global PE firms buy out stakes of earlier investors Private Equity firms invested about $1,886 million across 90 deals during the quarter ended March 2012, according…
Private Equity Forum – April 26 &27, 2012, Mumbai
PARTNER EVENT:“In Investment, understanding is more important than information”. Private Equity Forum to be held on 26th and 27th April, 2012, in Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai (Please Save the Date)…
Unisex salons to keep growing
Business Today has an article on the trend. A recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, or PwC, and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry pegged the size of the…
Diligencing Investors – The Manish Sabharwal way
Manish Sabharwal, founder of education and staffing services firm Teamlease (who earlier founded and sold India Life) articulates in an article in Mint, how he went about choosing his latest…
ET Now’s ‘Super Angels’ Grand Finale witnesses a Funding Bonanza for Start ups
ET NOW’s Super Angels, a special series on the ‘Starting Up’ show which provides a platform for start-ups to make pitches to Angel Investors, concluded its grand finale on the…