PE investments in 2018 at an all-time high of more than $33 billion

The year saw eight new Unicorn companies being minted, including Oyo, PolicyBazaar, Swiggy, Paytm Mall and Byjus in the B2C segment

Private Equity (PE) investments in India rose to their highest in 2018, exceeding $33.1 billion across 720 transactions.

While PE investments during the year had surpassed the previous high of $24.3 billion across 734 deals — achieved in 2017 — in the first nine months of itself, the mega-investments seen in consumer internet & mobile startups like Swiggy and Byjus’s towards the end of the year helped the 2018 total jump by 36 per cent on a year-on-year basis. These figures include venture capital investments, but exclude PE investments in real estate.

According to data from Venture Intelligence, the year 2018 saw