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Sequoia Capital India backed Prataap Snacks, maker of Yello Diamond brand of snacks cruised through a successful IPO. The IPO was subscribed over 47 times . With data from Venture Intelligence PE/VC Database and Company Financials Database we look at Prataap Snacks's journey and how it's investors fared in the IPO. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Knowledge @ Wharton quotes Venture Intelligence data and founder in its article titled "Will SoftBank Vision Fund’s $6 Billion Bet in India Pay Off?" Extracts: "(says) Arun Natarajan, founder of information and analysis firm Venture Intelligence: “Given how the future of so many of the local internet and mobile unicorns was hanging in the balance in 2016, the arrival of such a deep-pocketed investor is a sigh of relief.” "He points out that other than the 2011 investment in InMobi, SoftBank really started to invest in the Indian market directly only in late 2014. The less than three-year period is too early to pronounce a verdict on their ‘track record’,” Natarajan says. He also notes that the “sheer mathematics” of the Vision Fund means that it needs to find and invest in “dozens of companies” that can absorb $1 billion, if not more, each. “Which naturally means that these companies should have already achieved significant scale — at least in their ho...

A Stanford Social Innovation Review article quotes Venture Intelligence data on investments in education: Corporate social responsibility funding in India has been significant, with 36 percent ($419 million)  going into education  in 2016. Impact investing, however, is yet to be tapped with only around $45 million on average per annum between 2014-2017 according to an analysis of education deals in the  Venture Intelligence database . Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Venture Intelligence is powering the (Weekly) Deal Tracker on The Mint tracking all Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A, Real Estate and Strategic investments in India. The Deal Tracker is featured in the Deals Section (Page 3) every Monday. (Click to View) To get comprehensive coverage on upcoming PE/VC, M&A, Angel and Strategic Investments  sign-up  to our Weekly Newsletter. View a  sample DD Newsletter  here. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Venture Intelligence is powering the (Weekly) Deal Tracker on The Mint tracking all Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A, Real Estate and Strategic investments in India. The Deal Tracker is featured in the Deals Section (Page 3) every Monday. To get comprehensive coverage on upcoming PE/VC, M&A, Angel and Strategic Investments  sign-up  to our Weekly Newsletter. View a  sample DD Newsletter  here. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

A Mint article on Flipkart quotes Venture Intelligence data on PE/VC investments in Internet & E-Commerce companies Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

PE/VC investors Paragon Partners and Newquest hold on to their stakes in Capacite Infraprojects IPO. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Venture Intelligence is powering the (Weekly) Deal Tracker on The Mint tracking all Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A, Real Estate and Strategic investments in India. The Deal Tracker is featured in the Deals Section (Page 3) every Monday. To get comprehensive coverage on upcoming PE/VC, M&A, Angel and Strategic Investments  sign-up  to our Weekly Newsletter. View a  sample DD Newsletter  here. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.

Sluggishness in Early Stage however continues Venture Capital investments* perked up in August to 34 investments worth as much as $440 million - making it the second highest month in 2017. These stats are comparable to those seen in August 2016 (37 deals worth $458 million) and 140% higher in terms of value compared to Jul'17. August also arrests the 2-month slide in deal activity which began in June. (* Seed to Series D round investments in companies less than 10 years old with value of up to $20 Million. The monthly stats also include investments in IT companies that less than 10 years old, with deal value above $20 million.) August registered as many as 10 deals worth more than $10 million or more, with VC investors predominantly focused on Series B and beyond rounds.   The reported $100 million investment in B2B E-Commerce firm Just Buy Live ,was followed by data protection software company Druva's strong $80 million round. Online lender Capital ...

Amidst the drama around SoftBank's $2.5 Billion investment in Flipkart, not much attention has been paid to the fact that the deal involves the exit (albeit partial) of key Flipkart backer, Tiger Global, from the most audacious Venture Capital investment in India. The VC arm of the New York-based hedge fund, led globally by Lee Fixel, is estimated to have invested $1 Billion in Flipkart starting in end 2009. Tiger's bet on Flipkart - which arguably triggered the rush to invest and create other Internet & Mobile Unicorns in India - has also been described as the single biggest risk to the technology ecosystem. " Unfortunately, due to just one individual - Lee Fixel of Tiger Global - Flipkart has gone from being a poster child to being the single biggest risk to the technology ecosystem. I hope for a soft landing ," angel investor and iSpirt co-founder Sharad Sharma had said during the heady days of 2015, when Flipkart's valuation had hit a peak of $15...

Venture Intelligence is powering the (Weekly) Deal Tracker on The Mint tracking all Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A, Real Estate and Strategic investments in India. The Deal Tracker is featured in the Deals Section (Page 3) every Monday. To get comprehensive coverage on upcoming PE/VC, M&A, Angel and Strategic Investments  sign-up  to our Weekly Newsletter. View a  sample DD Newsletter  here. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India.