Guruji.com, founded by two Delhi IIT graduates, on Thursday launched the country's first local Internet search engine, with a commitment of $7 million from a leading Indian venture capital firm.
Venture capital investments in India's start-ups nearly halved to $1.5 billion in fourth-quarter 2015
Union Minister of Commerce and Textiles Piyush Goyal has stirred up a hornet's nest by taking on India Inc, specifically the Tata group, which is among the companies that lobbied against the Modi government's pro-consumer draft e-commerce policies. While Goyal's comments, made at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) event, were streamed live on YouTube, the industry lobbying body later edited the video and subsequently withdrew the entire speech. Goyal had said the Tata group and other Indian companies often lobbied for their interest, while ignoring national interest.
E-commerce is awash in money, raising concerns about whether this is just another unsustainable internet trend headed for a bust.
Perhaps, the most misunderstood aspect is the role of the state.
Delhi Metro, Yamuna-expressway and Tata Power's Mundra ultra mega power project in Gujarat are among the six ventures that have figured in the list of world's most innovative, impactful infrastructure projects prepared by international accounting firm KPMG.
Sabse has several patents in the arena of call-control and switching of calls.
In India, where it is tougher to do business, a start-up gets established by the Series-B stage, and it gets expensive for investors.
The country has the opportunity of creating new business models, products and services for the poor not just at home, but for countries in Africa and Latin America.
The department of science and technology, government of India, is planning to introduce an incubation fund for budding entrepreneurs.
'I've been backing businesses in the e-commerce space because they enable goods and services to reach people who could never have been catered to in this manner before.'
Incessant rains unleashed more death and destruction on Monday in parts of north India, with 37 people killed in landslides and other rain-related incidents in the last two days even as the Army and NDRF teams stepped in to intensify the relief and rescue operations.
The country's first ever carmaker, Hindustan Motors, is looking at a second coming. Talks are on for a joint venture with a European auto company focused on the electric vehicle (EV) space. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed and due diligence is expected to start shortly and will take 2-3 months to conclude.
Yatra Capital (Yatra), a private equity player with focus on the Indian real estate, on Thursday announced investments in two companies in the retail and hospitality sectors. One of them is a Euro 3.91 million (around Rs 22.8 crore) investment for a 28 per cent holding in Gangetic Developers, a joint venture formed to develop a retail mall in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
CreditSights has dialed back on its language on debt levels at richest Indian Gautam Adani's group but has maintained that the group's leverage is elevated. In a new note published after discussions with the group's management, CreditSights, a Fitch group firm, said it "has discovered calculation errors" in its recent debt report on two Adani Group companies but these did not change its investment recommendations. On August 23, CreditSights stated that the Adani group was "deeply over-leveraged" and may "in the worst-case scenario" spiral into a debt trap and possibly a default.
An early stage venture capital fund recently raised a Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) Mauritius-based fund to invest in Indian real estate and plans to raise a similar fund later this year.
The institute's incubation cell claims the start up mortality rate in the incubators are lowest.
An industry source said Reliance Industries did not have a controlling stake in Yatra.com through its acquisition of Network 18. It was just a financial investment.
Citigroup's private equity arm Citigroup Venture Capital International has acquired 85 per cent stake in retail brokerage Sharekhan for about Rs 470-480 crore (Rs 4.7 to Rs 4.8 billion).
The filing of offer documents with the capital markets regulator - Securities and Exchange Board of India - has more than halved this financial year (2022-23, or FY23) as the outlook for new share sales has worsened, following correction in the secondary market. So far in FY23, 66 companies filed their draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), as opposed to 144 in the preceding financial year (2021-22, or FY22).
IT consulting and services provider Patni Computer Systems Ltd on Tuesday announced the appointment of Loek van den Boog as an independent director on its board.
Citigroup Venture Capital (CVC) is in talks to acquire 10-15 per cent stake in AnandRathi Securities, the Mumbai-based securities and wealth management firm, for nearly Rs 70 crore ($15 million).
The company will spend Rs 10,141 crore to buy 15.5 per cent stake from minority investors.
For large start-ups the US market is considered to be a preferred destination, as Indian investors were seen as hesitant to pay the kind of valuation private equity investors or the US markets pay. However, Zomato's listing has quashed these notions.
Enterprise software leader Oracle, which last year acquired Indian banking software firm i-flex Solutions, has made a final offer of Rs 2,100 per share to shareholders as it seeks to increase its stake to 90 per cent.
They encouraged start-ups to pay for acquiring customers rather than focusing on the business fundamentals.
Of the 59 IPOs for which the data is available, 36 IPOs received mega responses of more than 10x (of which, six IPOs more than 100x), while eight IPOs were oversubscribed more than 3x.
GMR Group on Friday said it will divest its entire 40 per cent stake in Cebu international airport in Philippines for an upfront payment of Rs 1,330 crore as well as earnouts to be received over a period of more than four years. The airport is being operated by GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) and GMR Airports International BV (GAIBV) holds a 40 per cent stake in the venture. A definitive agreement has been signed between GMR Airports International BV (GAIBV) and Aboitiz InfraCapital Inc (AIC) for the divestment of stake in Cebu airport.
The share of non-resident Indians (NRIs) and overseas investors in Indian mutual funds has been declining over time, despite adding half-a-trillion rupees to holdings over the last five years. Mutual fund holdings for the segment went up from Rs 0.95 trillion as of December 2018 to Rs 1.54 trillion as of December 2022, shows Business Standard analysis of data from the industry body Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi). Their share in overall mutual fund assets has fallen from 4.2 per cent to 3.9 per cent during the same period.
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