The Indian startup ecosystem recently celebrated the 100th unicorn milestone. It came after a month of no big fund announcements. Compare this to 2021, when three to four unicorns were being added every month. Nevertheless, the 100th unicorn needs to be celebrated since the first unicorn was announced in 2011 - 11 years ago.
Despite the positive sentiment returning in the VC space, investment si still low on an year-on-year basis.
'The success of one or two IPOs does not dictate whether the upcoming IPOs will be successful or not, but it certainly indicates that the markets and investors are enthusiastic about startup IPOs.'
Leading the Indian-Americans on the list is 49-year old Aneel Bhusri.
According to Venture Intelligence, PE/VC investors have already invested $93 million in 10 education companies so far in 2011, led by a Rs 100 crore (about USD 22 million) investment in vocational training and placement firm Teamlease Services.
Layoffs, corporate restructuring, governance and most importantly profitability: The 14 Indian startups that plan IPOs this year are pulling out all the stops to ensure successful market debuts.
If you are an entrepreneur and apprehensive that the global market meltdown will strain your fund-raising plans, fear not. India-focused private equity and venture capital funds raised $7 billion (Rs 27,958 crore) in 2007, excluding real estate, last year. They had garnered a similar amount in the corresponding previous year, according to data from Venture Intelligence, a venture capital research company.
Corporate India is likely to witness a surge in private equity deals by the last quarter of current fiscal as inflation is likely to cool down and bulls are expected to be back in the stock market, as per PE deal tracker firm Venture Intelligence.
Blue-chip names such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Google, JP Morgan Asset Management are taking strategic bets in the Indian market.
Foreign investment in India's start-ups has plummeted 72 per cent to $4.58 billion so far, from $16.2 billion during the same period last year.
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With 16 start-ups gaining unicorn status in 2021, India's tally has touched the 50 mark. The newest entrant to this list include Pune-based MindTickle, which is close to finalising a $100-million funding round from Softbank's Vision Fund 2, taking the company's valuation to $1.1 billion.
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Deals shrink to $396 million this year, compared to $793 million in 2011.
The way video is being watched and monetised is changing. This is the first thing that stands out as the penetration of smart TVs continues to rise.
'This incident offers ammunition to those inside the US government and elsewhere who question the wisdom of trusting India, so it will have a lasting consequence no matter how it is managed.'
IT services firm Wipro has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-first ecosystem that will put the technology in every platform, tool, and solution it uses and offers to clients. Along with the launch of Wipro ai360, the company committed to invest $1 billion to advance AI capabilities in the next three years. Wipro ai360, fuelled by this new investment, will help in a new era of value, productivity, and commercial opportunities through the application of AI and generative AI, said the company.
During the quarter, venture capital firms have invested $144 million through 21 deals, a sharp decline compared to the corresponding period previous year which had recorded 28 deals worth $173 million. The maximum VC investment was attracted by online travel portal Cleartrip.com of about $18.5 million from DAG Ventures.
While 2017 was a record year for private equity investments in India after $23.5 billion in 660 deals, 2018 too has begun with a bang.
Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy on Thursday called out "fake news items", which claimed he endorsed automated trading applications and warned the public not to fall for such fraudulent claims. He also slammed "fake interviews" that used "deepfake pictures and videos" of him. In a series of posts on X, Murthy drew the attention of the public to false content being put out by malicious sites and products or services being sold fraudulently using his name and urged people to report any such instances to the concerned regulatory authorities.
Creating an LLM trained on Indian languages is not easy. Experts say each language in India has a nuance of its own, so creating a ChatGPT-like product is an ambitious challenge.
Venture Capital giant Sequoia India & Southeast Asia has rebranded itself to Peak VX Partners. The VC firm will now manage its assets under management (AUM) in the region of over $9.2 billion across 13 funds independently. The rebranding exercise followed Sequoia Capital's break-up into three independent entities across the globe. Besides Sequoia India & Southeast Asia, Sequoia China business has adopted the name HongShan in English (it will
According to Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on private company transactions, PE firms invested $8,853 million this year, compared to the $10,378 million across 483 deals a year ago.
Private equity investments in the January-March quarter of the 2011 calendar year were about 57 per cent higher than the $ 2.1 billion worth of PE investment registered in the year ago period and more than double October-December's $1.5 billion, according to data provider Venture Intelligence.
According to the PwC MoneyTree India report, a quarterly study of private equity investment activity based on data by Venture Intelligence, private equity PE firms invested $2.5 billion across 97 deals in Q3 of 2012, against USD 2.4 billion from 121 deals a year ago.
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In the April-June quarter this year USD 2,916 million was invested across 112 deals, while last quarter saw an infusion of USD 3,361 million across 91 deals, according to a study by Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on Private Equity and M&A transaction activity in the country.
Reliance Industries Ltd on Monday announced an agreement to invest alongside Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty in special purpose vehicles developing data centres in India. Reliance will hold a 33.33 per cent stake in each of the five Indian special purpose vehicles and become an equal partner, the company said in a statement. Digital Realty Trust, Inc is the largest provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions globally with 300+ data centres across 27 countries.
Investment by PEs into HLS sector dropped to $203 million in 2008-09 from $836 million in 2007-08, while the number of deals dropped 51 per cent to 21 from 43 deals. Similarly, VC investments also declined to $48 million from $80 million. In terms of deals, they dropped to 11 from 14.
Private equity investments in India have touched an over one-year high of $2 billion in the January-March quarter of 2010, an increase of 19 per cent over the previous quarter. Private equity firms invested about $2 billion across 56 deals during the quarter ended March 2010.
The average deal size has gone up from $7 million in 2009 to $12 million this year.
India's merger and acquisition scene for the first quarter of 2009 has been dismissal. Indian companies were involved in a total of 54 deals for this quarter--that is a decline of 60 per cent year-on-year and about 40 per cent drop on a sequential basis--says a Venture Intelligence report.
Difficult fund raising conditions slowed the pace of private equity (PE) investments in the country by 64 per cent to a four-year low of $3.8 billion in 2009.
According to Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on private equity (PE) and venture capital activity, the first nine months of 2006 have witnessed eight buyouts by PE investors, compared with six in the entire 2005 and just two in 2004.
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$47.6 bn capital invested across 921 deals in India in 2020, despite pandemic.
The move comes barely a week after fellow crypto unicorn CoinDCX laid off 12 per cent of its workforce - an estimated 80 employees - amid challenging macroeconomic conditions and regulatory uncertainty in the sector. CoinSwitch has 519 employees, according to its LinkedIn profile. This means around 8 per cent of its workforce were shown the door.
Private equity deals in Jan-Mar 2008 touched $3.3 bn, higher than the year-ago period, which registered 101 deals fetching $2.7 bn, according to the data released by Venture Intelligence, a private equity research company. $3.3 bn mopped up through 97 private equity deals in the Mar 2008 quarter were lower than 131 deals totalling $5 bn in the preceding Dec 2007 quarter. Volatility in the secondary market injected a dose of caution on the Private Investments in Public front.
Nearly half of the investments by various US-based investors have been made in Reliance subsidiary Jio.
India may get its first unicorn this year as Zepto, which promises 10-minute deliveries, is in talks to get fresh funding that would take the start-up's valuation past $1 billion. The quick-delivery firm is looking to raise $150 million in a series E round, which will take its valuation to $1.3 billion. The round will be led by StepStone Group, a limited partner (LP) of Zepto's existing investor, Nexus Venture Partners, said media reports.
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