Interview with Raja Kumar of Ascent Capital
Raja Kumar, Founder & CEO of Ascent Capital The growth capital focused PE firm Ascent Capital, recently invested Rs.150 crore in Hyderabad-based IVRCL Assets & Holdings. Earlier in 2010, Ascent…
Limited Partner Interview: Paresh Thakker of Religare
Paresh Thakker, Head-Group M&A and MD-Global Asset Management, Religare In 2010, the Delhi-headquartered Religare Enterprises Group acquired significant stakes in two US-based fund-of-fund houses to jumpstart its goal of building…
IVCA elects new Executive Committee
From the Press Release: The first ever Elections for the Executive Committee of the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (IVCA) for the two year term January 2011 to…
Deal Alert: India Equity Partners invests $10-M in cold chain logistics firm Swastik Roadlines
From the Press Release: Swastik Roadlines Private Limited, one of the leading food cargo supply chain service providers, raised growth equity financing of around US$ 10 million from India Equity…
Have academic incubators lost relevance?
From a Businessworld article Far from being hotbeds of student-driven entrepreneurial activity, like in a Stanford University or an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), India’s B-school incubators now find themselves…
ET profile of Commodities Trading Software firm Eka
From the profile Beginning with software for trading in agri-commodities the company has added on packages for metals and will do so for energy trading by February 2011 with the…
Economic Times profile of Actis India head JM Trivedi
ET has a profile following the Paras Pharma buyout. Actis bought an ownership stake in Punjab Tractors,the tractor company owned by the Punjab government.”When we started investing in India,India was…
Deal Alert: Aureos Capital invests $10-M in Central India Hospotal Chain BSR Super Specialty Hospitals
From the Press Release Funds managed by Aureos Capital have completed a $10m investment in the BSR Super Speciality Hospitals Limited (BSR), a leading Indian healthcare group. Aureos Capital Limited…
Businessworld profile of day care surgery firm Nova Medical
From the article: The operative word in Nova’s model is ‘minor’. Need a heart bypass? Nova is not the place. But, need an appendix or a cataract removed? A stomach…
Businessworld profile of online retailer Flipkart
From the article Flipkart is now the undisputed leader in the online books retail category; it sells an average 5,000 titles every day, against a couple of thousand by Infibeam.…