Deal Alert: Ankur invests Rs. 1.5 cr in 3 early stage rural ventures
Mumbai-based impact investment fund, Ankur Capital, has invested in three early-stage ventures that focus on rural markets. The three firms are: CropIn, a cloud-based farm management systems company, home compost…
Deal Alert: AngelPrime leads Rs.3.1 Cr round for coder hiring startup HackerEarth
HackerEarth, a start-up which helps multinational companies hire programmers, has raised Rs 3.1 crore seed funding from Angel Prime as it prepares to expand operations in India and overseas markets.…
Entrevista with Raj Nair, Founder of Avalon Consulting
Cross Posted from the Entrevista blog. Interview with Raj Nair, Founder-Chairman of Avalon Consulting, the Mumbai-headquartered, international consulting firm and also research and analytics firm Ugam Solutions and artificial intelligence…
Deal Alert: Lionrock Capital, Nisa Godrej, others back baby products e-tailer Hopscotch
Singapore-based investor LionRock Capital, besides Industrialist Adi Godrej’s younger daughter Nisa, Skype co-founder Toivo Annus and Diapers.com co-founder and CTO Wei Yan, have invested $2 million in Hopscotch, a Mumbai-based…
Who Killed Growth Capital in India?
A huge pall of uncertainty surrounds the future of Growth Capital investing in India. Is the segment, that represents the bulk of both the supply and demand for private equity…
Profile of Boutique Investment Banks
From the Economic Times article: Two deals lifted their fortunes. The first: advising Dr Reddy’s to purchase Group Pharma, a smaller drug firm, for Rs 25 crore, which fetched them…
Deal Alert: Gray Matters India receives equity funding from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Gray Matters India Pvt.Ltd (GMI), an organization that has been incubated and co-funded by Atlanta-based Gray Matters Capital(GMC), announced today an INR 45 million equity investment from Michael & Susan…
Tall Tales Told by Grandmas and Venture Capitalists
“VCs look for Startups going after a Big Market with a Passionate Team and have an ‘unfair advantage’.” vs “A startup is an organization built to search for a repeatable…
AZB, Amarchand Top League Tables for Private Equity, M&A in 2013
Private Equity AZB & Partners has retained its status – for the fourth consecutive year – as the Most Active Legal Advisor for Private Equity transactions during 2013. According to…
Unitus Capital, BMR Top Transaction Advisor League Tables for Private Equity, M&A in 2013
Ernst & Young retains Most Active Transaction Advisor status inclusive of due diligence, other services Unitus Capital and BMR Advisors made their entry into the top of the Venture Intelligence…