Stars Aligned to Foretell Future of Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital
Dear Colleague, In 2004, the buzz around one mega exit – of Private Equity investor Warburg Pincus from Bharti Airtel – got institutional investors across the world excited about the…
Deal Alert: Biz incubator for NRIs to come up at Kochi Infopark
Technopark-TBI, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Non Resident Keralites Affairs Department and Infopark-Kochi Kerala will set up India’s first Technology Business Incubator (TBI), exclusively for non-residents Indians.…
Deal Alert: MyTopTeacher looking for funding
MyTopTeacher (MTT), an online platform to rate, add and find teachers, has raised seed funding. It also plans to raise more funds in the near future. The site allows users…
Deal Alert: Nexus backed ScaleArc raises Series C funding
ScaleArc announces $12.3 Million in Series C Funding from Accel partners, Trinity VENTURES and Nexus Ventures ScaleArc, the pioneer of database infrastructure software that simplifies the way database environments are…
Deal Alert: Fidelity Growth Partners India invests INR 300M in Richcore Lifesciences Private Limited
Fidelity Growth Partners India (FGPI) has made an INR 300M investment in Bangalore-based Richcore Lifesciences Private Limited, an innovation-driven company focused on development and manufacture of industrial enzymes that have…
Deal Alert: Matrix Partners invests in mobile POS firm Mswipe
Matrix Partners India has led the first round of institutional investment in Mumbai-based Mswipe Technologies Private Limited. Mswipe provides point of sale (POS) solutions which enable merchants to accept debit…
Deal Alert: InMobi acquires UK mobile location & context tech startup Overlay
Bangalore-based InMobi has acquired Overlay Media, a UK-based mobile location and context tech startup. Overlay Media, which comprises of a team of data scientists, has built the Context Engine technology…
Deal Alert: Shriram Group to float VC, angel funds
Chennai-based Shriram Group is floating a venture capital fund and an angel fund. The group is also reviving its mutual fund business and getting into investment banking. The first two…
Deal Alert: Biotech association forms angel fund
The Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE) has formed the Biotech Angel Network to help biotech entrepreneurs find investors or HNIs with money as well as knowledge on the biotech industry…
Deal Alert: Dialysis chain DCDC in talks to raise $5.5 M
DCDC Kidney Care, a New Delhi-based dialysis chain, is in talks with PE/VC funds to raise $5.5 million for funding its geographical expansion. Currently, DCDC Kidney Care has eight centers…