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China's crackdown on tech firms opens short window for Indian starts-ups

Beijing's decision to crack down on its tech start-ups has opened a window of opportunity for domestic start-ups, but it could close soon too

Private equity, venture capital investments fall in May to $3.6 bn: Report

This compares to April's $7.5 billion and the year-ago period's $5.4 billion

Covid-19 pandemic: PEs pour $584 million into healthcare in 2021

Highest investment in the sector in last 5 years; pandemic expands opportunities

PE investments in realty up 19%, ticket sizes up 1.6x to $178 mn: Anarock

Share of structured debt went up from 14% in FY20 to 21% in FY21

Adman turned investor Sajan Raj Kurup backs gaming firm Revenant Esports

The aim is to help Revenant Esports become a Rs 200 crore brand in the next 18 months

Algo Rhythm: Data Centres are the new global infrastructure

The Data Centre information technology (IT) power capacity in India is expected to reach about 800 Mw during 2021-2024

Tiger Global makes its first India cryptocurrency firm investment

Invests Rs 181 crore in CoinSwitch Kuber in a Series B round of funding, valuing the company at over $500 million

Tessolve raises $40 mn from Singapore's Novo Tellus at $100 mn valuation

The funding will be used by Tessolve, a Hero Electronix venture, to drive further growth through acquisitions and organic investments

PE investment in realty jumps 16-fold in Jan-Mar at $3.2 bn: Report

Private equity investment in real estate jumped over 16-fold in January-March 2021 to USD 3.24 billion as several deals spilled over from last year, according to Knight Frank. The property consultant, in its report 'Investments in Real Estate - Trends in PE Investments - Q1 2021', said Indian real estate attracted private equity (debt and equity) investments of USD 3,241 million across 19 deals in Q1 2021. The investment stood at mere USD 199 million in Q1 of 2020 calendar year. "The strong momentum in Q1 2021 was predominantly driven by two major factors: a spill over of certain deals from 2020 and the rise in investor confidence due to the drop in COVID-19 infections during early parts of Q1 2021," it said. Explaining the investment trend in the real estate industry, Shishir Baijal, chairman and managing director of Knight Frank India, said office assets continue to be the preferred segment attracting over 70 per cent of PE investments in Q1 2021. "While Q1 2021 has been an ...

Temasek backs future funds of impact investor LeapFrog with $500 mn

In India, LeapFrog has so far deployed capital across nine companies

TCF closes extended fund raising of largest rupee-only capital fund

The sweet spot for the third fund would be around Rs 125-150 crore as compared to around Rs 60-65 crore in the previous fund

Office properties grab lion's share of realty's $2.31 bn PE investments

The segment accounts for 81% of PE funds flowing into the real estate sector betwen Jan 1 and Sept 30; residential segments gets 9%

Covid impact: PE investment in real estate down 57% in Jan-Sep at $2.3 bn

PE investment in Indian real estate fell 57 per cent year-on-year to around $2.3 billion during January-September this year as investors remained cautious due to Covid-19, according to a report

US continues to be biggest source of VC investment in India as China shrugs

Experts say, the dominance of the US investors will probably grow in the coming decade, including in filling the gap created by the withdrawal of Chinese investors

PE fund Zephyr Peacock eyes 12 investments from $100-mn third fund

The company is also preparing to exit two portfolio companies in the next 6-8 months

Inflows into Jio limit fall in H1 PE/VC investments to 10% at $18.3 bn

In terms of deal type, buyouts were the most affected with only 14 transactions worth $794 million compared to 27 worth $6.2 billion in the year-ago period

PE investments drop 65% to $1.45 billion in June quarter: Refinitiv data

Q2 also saw a decline of 9 per cent in the number of deals to 161

PE investments doubled in May thanks to Reliance's Jio Platforms deals

Around $4.6 billion, or 85 per cent of the total deals, invested was in Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Reliance Industries

PE-VC companies invest $5.9 billion across 164 deals in the Q4FY20

The latest quarter witnessed 14 PE-VC investments worth $100 million or more, down from the 20 such transactions in the same period last year

Corporate, PE investments in EV start-ups grow 170% in 2019 to $397 mn

The $306-million investment in Ola Electric Mobility by SoftBank Corp, Arun Sarin Family, Ratan Tata and Matrix has been the biggest funding in this space in value terms this year