Data Highlight: Blackstone Lights Up Q3’11 Investing Over $500-M
US-headquartered Private Equity firm Blackstone stepped on the gas on its India investments, committing to invest over half a billion dollars in just the three months ended September 2011, according…
VC firms invest $217-M in Q3’11
Venture Capital firms invested $217 million over 43 deals in India during the three months ending September 2011, according to a study by Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a research service focused…
Deal Alert: Nexus Ventures invests $4-M in mobile apps developer Genwi
From the Press Release: GENWI (http://genwi.com), the leader in cloud publishing platforms for Tablets and Smartphones, has raised $4 million in Series A funding in a round led by Nexus…
PE firms invest $2.25-B in Q3’11
PE Investments in first 9 months of 2011 surpasses entire of 2010 as deal sizes grow significantlyPrivate Equity firms invested about $2,249 million across 98 deals during the quarter ended…
“Who’s Afraid Of Private Equity?”
Extract from an article by Haigreve Khaitan of corporate law firm Khaitan & Co. in The Economic Times. Promoters may be able to assess investors’ intentions from the manner of…
Nexus-backed Gluster to be acquired by Red Hat for $136-M
Edited excerpts from the Press Release: NYSE-listed Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, has agreed to acquire privately held Gluster, Inc, a…
“Mistakes to Avoid in PE Fund Raising”
Extract from an Economic Times article by Manish Kanchan, Managing Director of SAGE Capital. Very often we see entrepreneurs consulting with well wishers, old-time chartered accountants or their loyal CFOs…
Profile of Online Jeweley Retailer CaratLane
Extract from The Economic Times profile of Carat-Lane Online jewellery retail portal Carat-Lane aims to bypass the hiccups that have laid low a number of e-commerce players, by adopting a…