Jacob Ballas plans $500 mn India PE fund

Jacob Ballas was founded by Rajan Jetley, who was earlier the CEO of Air India and currently manages $445 million across three funds.

When contacted, Srinivas Chidambaram, Managing Director of Jacob Ballas Capital India, said he cannot confirm, deny or comment on this as they are in process of raising the fund.

The funds have been focusing on infrastructure, IT/BPO, textiles, pharmaceuticals and the financial services sector in India. The move by Jacob Ballas to raise a $500 million fund is backed by a strong pipeline of deals available in the Indian market given the losing lustre of the public markets.

According to Venture Intelligence, a venture and private equity research firm, India-focused PE /VC funds has so far raised $ 4 billion for investing in Indian companies and this is expected to cross the $10 billion mark, which was touched during 2007.

New York Life has a stake in Jacob Ballas through its wholly owned subsidiary, New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM).

New York Life has $200 billion in assets under management and the subsidiary is an integrated asset management enterprise serving a variety of sectors