Deal Alert: SVB India provides venture debt to Firstcry.com’s parent firm
SVB India Finance has provided a Venture Term Loan to Pune-based Brainbees Solutions India Private Limited, the company which operates the online and offline kids products retailer FirstCry.com. The company…
Deal Alert: Games2win raises $2-M more from Clearstone
Mumbai-based Games2win India Pvt. Ltd. has raised an additional round of funding of approximately $2 million (Rs.10 crore) from US-based Clearstone Venture Partners. This is Games2win’s third successful financing round…
Deal Alert: Biosense Technologies raises $500,000 from GSF and Inistor Fund
Mumbai based Biosense Technologies has raised $500,000 of funding from GSF India and Insitor Fund. The company, founded by Myshkin Ingawale, Abhishek Sen, Yogesh Patil and Aman Midha, plans to…
Deal Alert: KPO firm Aranca to raise PE for expansion
Aranca, a Mumbai-based Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm, is looking at raising private equity in 8-10 months time to expanding its services to Latin America and China, both organically and…
Profile of Mystery Shopping Firm RedQuanta
From the Smart CEO: Through its network of mystery shoppers, Mumbai-based RedQuanta measures the quality of service, compliance to regulation and gathers specific information about products and services of its…
Deal Alert: Saama Capital invests in enterprise mobility firm AgreeYa
Enterprise-mobility and mobile-SI company AgreeYa Mobility has secured new funding from Saama Capital. The additional financing will help AgreeYa Mobility expand market share for its enterprise mobility product, Onvelop, reaching…
Deal Alert: Citrus Payment Solutions raises $2-M from Sequoia Capital
Mumbai-based payment processing start-up firm Citrus Payment Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,has revealed that it, has raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital in return for a minority stake and launched a new…
Deal Alert: Intel, Sequoia invest $14-M in pharma e-tailer Healthkart
Gurgaon-based HealthKart, which sells consumer healthcare goods online has raised $14 million in Series B funding from Intel Capital ($8 million) and Sequoia Capital ($6 million). Including the new round…
Akhil Gupta, Blackstone Group at APEX’13 Summit & Awards
Akhil Gupta, Blackstone Group “I have always told my international colleagues that India will not be a linear growth story – we will take three steps forward and two steps…
The Chakra Vyuh of Private Equity
As part of his speech at the Venture Intelligence APEX’13 Awards, Ashish Chauhan, CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange, described how PE/VC investors were like the mythological character Abhimanyu who knew “how…