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PE, VC investments jump to all-time high of $77 bn in 2021: Report

Private equity and venture capital funds invested $77 billion in Indian companies in 2021, a jump of 62 per cent over the previous year, a report said on Tuesday.

Indian mobility tech startup EVage raises $28 mn from US-based VC firm

EVage on Friday said it has raised $28 million from US-based venture capital firm RedBlue Capital.

PE-VC investments in Indian firms up 57% YoY, hit record $63 bn in 2021

The year had eight investments worth $1 bn or more, led by Flipkart's $3.6 bn pre-IPO round; E-commerce was the favorite sector, attracting $10.3 bn, followed by fintech ($7.7 bn)

Why VCs are backing newer EV start-ups despite the OATS phenomenon

Early-stage funding in the segment rose almost three times to $74 million in 2021 compared to the previous year

Instoried's Sharmin Ali expects 2022 to be the year of 'empathetic content'

Instoried founder & chief executive Sharmin Ali shares the story of Instoried, the need for AI-driven content marketing and the use of NLP

Web 3.0 owned by big VC firms, not users: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey

Web3, also known as Web 3.0, is an idea for a new Internet that incorporates decentralisation based on blockchain

Private equity and venture capital investment may hit record $70 bn in 2021

Apart from value, volumes or the number of deals have also gone up

PM Narendra Modi meets leading CEOs for FY23 Budget inputs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met with chief executives of leading companies across sectors ranging from banking to telecom, to health and electronics, for inputs for the next year's Budget. Last week, he had met with leading private equity/ venture capital players to seek suggestions on making India a more attractive investment destination. On Monday, the prime minister interacted with the leading CEOs of companies across banking, infrastructure, automobiles, telecom, consumer goods, textile, renewables, hospitality, technology healthcare, space and electronics, official sources said. This meeting, they said, is part of the many interactions that Modi is holding ahead of the Budget to receive inputs and suggestions from the private sector. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is due to present on February 1 the Budget for the next fiscal year that starts on April 1, 2022. Since coming to power in 2014, the BJP government has unveiled a series of reforms that have helped I

PM meets venture capital, private equity funds ahead of Union Budget

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hosted a roundtable interaction with representatives of venture capital and private equity funds.

How India's family offices are striking out on their own in start-up land

Not only that, 83 per cent family offices have an allocation to private markets that is more than 10 per cent of their overall asset distribution

PE/VC investments see monthly decline of 52% in November to $6.8 billion

With a month to go, PE/VC investments in 2021 at $72.6 billion have surpassed the all-time high seen in 2020 by 53 per cent, driven by mega investments in start-ups and large buyouts.

Norwest Venture Partners announces closure of $3 bn fund NVP XVI

Total capital under management at $12.5 bn; last fund NVP XV was raised in 2019 with a corpus of $2 bn

Betting early on multi-baggers: How Unicorn Ventures profit off start-ups

According to a PwC report, the Indian start-up ecosystem saw investments of over $10 billion in the third quarter of calendar 2021 from VCs

SaaS platform Zvolv raises $1.5 mn, will use fund to expand business

The funding round was led by JSW Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital fund.

Despite farm laws' repeal, agritech investments may rise to $700 mn in FY22

Indian agritech start-ups had attracted $528.4 mn in funding in FY21, according to VC firm Omnivore

Will invest in India's metaverse, crypto startups: Antler's Rajiv Srivatsa

The real foundational businesses still take 10 years to build. You can't fast forward it beyond a point, says VC fund's India head

India's PE/VC funding leads widening over peers, developed markets

More capital flowing to Indian entrepreneurs relative to GDP than in other countries

VC firm Antler raises over $300 mn, expands focus to invest up to Series C

VC firm Antler fund raising: Primary focus to remain pre-seed stage funding as it seeks to invest in the world's "most exceptional people"

PE-VC investments surge to record $49 bn in first nine months of CY2021

Investments worth $20 bn in unicorns account for nearly 41% of the value pie so far in CY2021, which has seen the addition of 29 billion-dollar companies

InnoVen Capital announces first close of new fund at Rs 740 crore

The first close was done with anchor investor Innoven Capital Pte Ltd, a joint venture between Seviora (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek) and United Overseas Bank