Private Equities

Despite this decline, 2022 marks the second-best year for PE/VC investments in India to date; dip largely due to smaller deal sizes amid stable volumes

November proved to be a good month for private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds as far as exits via initial public offerings (IPOs) and sell-downs in listed firms were concerned

Yes Bank on Tuesday said private equity majors Carlyle Group and Advent have picked up 9.99 per cent stake in the bank. The two private equity (PE) funds together would pump in about Rs 8,896 crore in Yes Bank with full conversion of warrants into equity. The bank has allotted a total of 369.61 crore shares of face value Rs 2 each and 255.97 share warrants convertible into equity shares of face value Rs 2 each on a preferential basis to CA Basque Investments, a Carlyle Group entity, and Verventa Holdings Limited, an Advent group entity, Yes Bank said in a regulatory filing. Pursuant to the allotment of the equity shares, the total issued and paid-up share capital of Yes Bank has increased from Rs 5,011.31 to Rs 5,750.54, it said. CA Basque Investments was allotted 184.80 shares with a face value of Rs 2 at an issue price of Rs 13.78 and 127.98 share warrants carrying a right to exercise, get issued and allotted 1 (One) equity share with a face value of Rs 2 for each warrant at a pr

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The month recorded the highest ever exits at USD 3.1 billion, making it the best month from sell-offs perspective, according to the report by industry lobby IVCA and the consultancy firm EY.

Domestic fund houses were subdued during the pandemic years. In the first half of 2021, they invested $3.3 billion, just about half of the amount this year, for a share of 13.8 per cent

Private equity investments into domestic companies fell 17 per cent to USD 6.72 billion on an annual basis in the June quarter, according to a report. During the same period, the number of Private Equity (PE) deals also declined 15 per cent to 344 compared to the year-ago period. In the year-ago period, the deal value stood at USD 8.13 billion. The deal value declined by 25.1 per cent in the three months ended June compared to the 2022 March quarter when it stood at USD 8.97 billion, deal tracker Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange group entity, said on Monday. The steep quarterly decline in the deal value was due to a 40 per cent fall in money flows to the startups space. Refinitiv said that PE investments declined 17.3 per cent to USD 6.72 billion in the June quarter from the year-ago period when the country attracted USD 8.13 billion. This was after a strong start in the first quarter. However, the total PE investments in the first six months of the year stood at USD 15.7 billi

Today Angel platform IPV has close to 7,000 investors, over 4,000 of whom actively invest in the Indian startup ecosystem. These investors, largely Indian diaspora, come from 48 countries

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In October 2021, VideoVerse had raised Series A funding from Moneta Ventures, Baring Private Equity India, Binny Bansal and Ventureast

Some PE fund leaders are making a strong pitch to the government for a policy framework to encourage the growth of a vibrant, "atmanirbhar" domestic private equity industry to rival that of China

Of the total PE money, as much as USD 35 billion were pumped into start-ups alone: PwC India report

Publicly listed family firms in Asia have a market capitalisation of more than $5.56 trillion; analysts say change in their ownership could be seismic.

Private equity and venture capital fund investments in India stood at $47.6 billion in 2020

The pandemic played spoilsport

Investor to become single-largest shareholder; Sameer Gehlaut likely to step down as promoter

Venture Capital type investments however fell 13 per cent in value (and 16% by volume) in 2020 ($10.7 Billion across 694 deals) compared to last year ($12.5 Billion in 832 deals).

Investments in RIL subsidiaries deals have managed to arrest the overall decline in PE-VC investment figures in 2020

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