How Much Should You Diss Competition?
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,…
Private Equity investments tick up 24% to $3.6 Billion in Q1’16
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…
Equitas IPO: Payback Time for Impact Investors
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…
PE Investors offload shares worth $2.5 B in Q1’16 – Up 129% YoY
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,…
The 10 Worst VC Board Members
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,…
Indian Startup Ecosystem attacked by “Integrity Cancer”: Kashyap Deorah
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…
Manish Sabharwal @ Venture Intelligence APEX’16 PE-VC Summit
Manish Sabharwal, Co-Founder of leading staffing services company Teamlease, that pulled off a successful IPO in the choppy environment of early 2016, weighed in with typical flourish on various issues…
B2B Services, EdTech and IT Product Cos witness return of interest even as overall Venture Capital investments dip 32% in Jan-Mar’16
Venture Capital firms invested $242 million over 85 deals in India during the three months ending Mar 2016, data from the Venture Intelligence VC Deals Database shows. The investment activity…
Why, Despite Reporting Record Investment Figures, Private Equity in India Needs Structural Changes
Even though Private Equity investment figures in 2015 surpassed the previous high (of 2007), the expert panel at the Venture Intelligence APEX’16 PE-VC Summit felt the PE segment still faces…
Tiger Global Vs Ratan Tata: Who Will Indian VCs Follow?
As Tiger Global and various international investors step on the brake at their investment vehicles, there is one class of investor – Family Offices – that is stepping on the…