Page 14 - Venture Capital

Keen to invest more in Indian software, fintech: Insight Partners top brass

Nikhil Sachdev (MD) and Nikki Parker (SVP) travelled to India from the US for face-to-face meetings aimed at building strong ties with Indian startup founders

Sequoia to harden compliance amid trouble in India, SE Asian portfolio cos

The VC fund will undertake governance trainings for founders and senior management, implementation of whistleblower policies, more independent board representation

SoftBank CEO pays price for tech bets with $20 billion loss at Vision Fund

The Vision Fund swung to a loss of 2.64 trillion yen ($20.5 billion) for the year ended Mar. 31, compared with a 4.03 trillion yen profit in the previous year

E-commerce enablement platform GoKwik raises $35 mn for expansion

E-commerce enablement platform GoKwik said it has raised $35 million led by Think Investments and RTP Global, and will use the funds to work on tech solutions for large marketplaces

We don't keep nominees on boards of firms we nurture: 100X.VC's Ninad Karpe

In a Q&A, the partner of the early-stage venture capital fund talks about the unique investment philosophy of 100X.VC, iSAFE Note and the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem

VC investments fall 25% sequentially in Q1CY22: KPMG's Venture Pulse report

Rising commodity prices, geopolitical uncertainty weigh on sentiment: KPMG report

Companies are useless in decentralised world of Web3: Harsh Rajat of EPNS

In a Q&A, company's co-founder talks about starting the company amid the pandemic, the financial machinations of Web3 organisations and his vision for the future of his firm

PE/VC investments decline 22% in March to $4.6 billion, says report

The deal activity showed an increase of 54 per cent by value at USD 15.5 billion across 360 deals, largely on the back of heightened activity in the startup space

Online D2C brands grapple with moment of truth in the valuation game

Valuation demands of around 10x of revenue had become way too common despite the fact that consumer brands are fundamentally different from tech businesses.

After a sprint, a pause for breath

2021 not only saw record funding creating a third of the country's unicorns, but also the first major listings, providing new valuation anchors

Agritech venture capital firm Omnivore to set up Rs 1,000 crore fund

The new fund will continue to invest in early-stage startups developing breakthrough technologies for agriculture, food, climate, and the rural economy

After 2021 boom, how 2022 could be a year of reckoning for Indian startups

After the boom of 2021, when 44 Indian startups became unicorns, the markets are more selective and investors less enthusiastic in participating at unrealistic valuations

VC exits in India start-ups up 10x to $14 billion in 2021: Bain & Co

Share of VC deal value in PE-VC space above 50% for the first time: Bain & Co

100% of portfolio's revenues from online channels: RPSG Capital's CIO

In a Q&A Abhishek Goenka dwells on the VC fund's investment strategy, the sectors within the consumer space that he is bullish on, and the road ahead

'PE/VC funds replacing global strategic investors', says Amit Chandra

PE/VC investments are dwarfing foreign institutional investor (FII) flows: Chandra

PE/VC investments in Feb 2022 up 2.3 times year-on-year: IVCA-EY report

Month-on-month, the spike was 24%; Exits recorded in Feb 2022 were $1.4 billion across 10 deals, including three secondary ones worth $1.2 billion

Top private equity players call for policy to become 'atmanirbhar'

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

With culture at stake in unicorn land, spotlight on founder-VC equation

The BharatPe saga raises questions about the impact of outsized investor shareholding in young enterprises

India ranks 2nd for global investment in digital shopping companies

India is the second-largest global venture capital investment hub for digital shopping companies, growing by a whopping 175 per cent from USD 8 billion in 2020 to USD 22 billion in 2021, according to an official analysis released here on Wednesday. On a global scale, India came in second to the US last year, which attracted USD 51 billion in investment, followed by China at third with USD 14 billion and the UK at fourth with USD 7 billion. Within India, Bengaluru comes out on top globally with USD 14 billion worth of Venture Capital (VC) investments in digital shopping in 2021, followed by Gurugram at No. 7 with USD 4 billion and Mumbai at No. 10 with USD 3 billion. Bengaluru almost tripled its investments from USD 5 billion in 2020 to take the top spot, ahead of other leading cities in the world New York City (second), San Francisco (third), London (fourth) and Berlin (fifth). According to the London & Partners analysis of Dealroom.co investment data, increasing demand for ...

Accel raises $650 mn fund to invest in Indian and SE Asian start-ups

It was an early investor in unicorn start-ups like Flipkart, Swiggy, Zetwerk, Cultfit, Acko and others