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Chennai-based Equitas Holdings, which is focused on providing microfinance and other financial services to bottom-of-the pyramid customers, closed its first day as a public company at INR 135.25, a gain…

Mint has listed (on its front page) various fancy “GMV” goals totted out by CEOs of Indian E-Commerce Unicorns – at various points to various media outlets – but have…

Even as the question of whether Flipkart can provide profitable exits to its investors remains a multi billion dollar one, the firm has started to see high profile exits of…

The founder of the retailing focused Future Group has declared e-commerce as an optional area in an interview to Mint: “I have been a very good student of e-commerce business,”…

From the CB Insights newsletter of April 13, 2016: From the CB Insights newsletter of April 15, 2016: While we can’t help but smile at CB’s pugnacity, at Venture Intelligence,…

Quarter sees 12 Mega Deals ($100-M or more) across E-Comm; Financial Services; Healthcare & Infra Private Equity firms invested about $3,620 million across 144 deals during the quarter ended March…

Business Standard has an article on returns made by PE/VC investors in Equitas Holdings’ IPO using data from the Venture Intelligence Private Equity Deals Database. Incidentally, Aavishkaar Goodwell made INR…

Private Equity exits in India for Q1 2016 amounted to $2.5 billion (including value of stock swap transactions) an increase of 129% compared to $1.94 billion in the Q1 2015,…

From a Tweet by Bessemer Ventures: Creative Reminiscent of Bessemer’s famous Anti-Portfolio. Venture Intelligence is India’s longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity,…

Kashyap Deorah, author of “The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups” and the former President of the Future Group’s e-commerce venture Futurebazaar.com, has a LinkedIn post describing…