Wipro Consumer VC looks for more follow-on roundsSumit Keshan, managing partner of Wipro Consumer Care – Ventures, said the fund's approach has been to invest $1-3 million per deal with a ...
GrowthCap Ventures secures initial funding of Rs 20 croreThe firm is now poised to make investments in early-stage startups specializing in Fintech, SaaS and Deeptech, offering funding in the rang...
Manipal Group's Ranjan Pai invests in omnichannel beauty retailer PurplleIn May, ET had reported that JSW Ventures had partially sold its stake in Purplle to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). At the time, th...
Public companies have changed but founder expectations have not moved fast: Benchmark’s Bill GurleyGurley said that just because there is a lot of ‘perceived’ dry powder with VCs, it need not be deployed instantaneously.
Rishi Navani’s Epiq Capital closes second fund at $225 millionThe venture capital firm has already backed startups such as eyewear retailer Lenskart, news aggregator Dailyhunt, fitness platform Cultfit...
The right way of looking at impact investmentESG merely aims at avoiding, or minimising negative, impact. Also, ESG primarily looks at the track record of the investee. Impact investme...
To boost startup financing, government offers incentives to VC, PE fundsIn a letter dated April 29, 2022, SIDBI told AIFs that it would allow “accelerated drawdowns” of the money committed by the FFS while fund ...
BlackSoil Capital exits 15 investments with 18% returns in FY21BlackSoil has exited over 50 deals since its inception in mid-2016 across its Secured Credit portfolio consisting of venture debt and struc...
InvAscent-led India Life Sciences Fund raises $250 millionInvestors of the fund include blue chip fund-of-fund vehicles, pension funds and university endowments and family offices from the US and E...
Here's why VC firms are investing in specific sectorsIndustry watchers have noticed clear tendencies among VC firms to go the way of depth rather than breadth, investing with dedicated focus o...
Endiya looks to raise Rs 500 crore for Fund-IIVC company aims to invest more in all of its portfolio firms, step up focus on life sciences sector
$15 billion waiting to be invested in IndiaThe excitement around India has enabled funds to raise this enormous capital, but it's now cash that is desperately looking for investment ...
InnoVen Capital looks to broaden portfolio, invest in healthcare servicesThe firm, which closed deals worth Rs 110 crore at the end of the third quarter of the current fiscal, is now considering companies that ar...
A disabling law, Budget 2015 should relook Section 56The section has become a huge problem, it is both disabling and discriminatory and we are having a brain drain from the country.
Gray Ghost Ventures to raise Rs 361 croreThe eight-year-old fund, with $80 million in assets under management, has invested in 17 companies. Nine companies in its portfolio either ...
- Arthveda plans to float Rs 1,000-cr infra fund
Arthveda Fund Management, the venture capital arm of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation, is planning to raise an infrastructure fund.
- Govt mulls Rs 100 cr venture fund for IT SMBs
The ministry of communications and information technology is mooting creation of a national venture capital fund to support small and mediu...