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A ToI article, covering fund managers launching new funds, quotes data from Venture Intelligence's Fund Raising database: The article also quotes PE-VC investments data from Venture Intelligence: PE firms invested a record $8.2 billion across 158 deals during the quarter ended June 2018. That’s a 60% jump compared to the same period last year, according to data from Venture Intelligence. The latest figures have catapulted total PE investments in the first half of 2018 to $12.4 billion (across 315 deals) - a figure similar to the one recorded in first half of 2017 (across 358 transactions). Incidentally, 2017 was the biggest ever year for PE investments in India, recording $23.5 billion across 660 deals. What is driving these new fund launches? Click here to continue reading. 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 Valuati...

A Mint article titled  Venture capitalists strike out on their own as investors back small funds  quotes Venture Intelligence data on recent funds launched by VC professionals who quit to strike out on their own. The article also further shares on why managers quit to launch their own funds: Click here to continue reading. 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 Businessworld article  quotes Venture Intelligence data on PE-VC fund raising: Data available with research firm Venture Intelligence, shows that funds raised by venture capitalists in 2017 stood at $1,217 million — the lowest in six years. To break down the numbers further, as many as 19 VC firms raised capital in India in 2017. In 2016, the number stood at 27 and in the year before, it was 15 (the funds raised during those two years were $2,750 million and $2,048 million, respectively).  In terms of total funds raised by risk capital investors - both private equity (PE) and VC firms - the number stood at $5,082 million across 34 firms in 2017.  Of that $464 million comprised domestic money, $2,239 million consisted of foreign capital and the remaining chunk was a mix of domestic and foreign capital. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital ...

An ET article quotes Venture Intelligence data of VC fund raising in India: Led by local affiliates of Silicon Valley heavyweights, Sequoia Capital and Accel, VC funds dedicated to India raised $2.2 billion in 2016, up from $1.5 billion in the previous year, according to data from Venture Intelligence.  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.

An ET article quotes Venture Intelligence data of VC fund raising in India: Led by local affiliates of Silicon Valley heavyweights, Sequoia Capital and Accel, VC (with) funds dedicated to India raised $2.2 billion in 2016, up from $1.5 billion in the previous year, according to Venture Intelligence. Another VC fund which made a final close in 2017 was Saama Capital, which mopped up $58 million for its third fund.  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.

In a Linkedin article , one of India's most active angel investor Sanjay Mehta advises startups not to raise seed funding from VCs for the following reasons: There is reluctance among new investors at Series A if the VC at seed stage doesn't participate. " For start-up if the VC firm decides not to write the second cheque Series A then it's sure shot curtains for that business as NO other VC firm in the town is going to write that second cheque .." Startups can have " enough & more expertise, face time and mentoring " from the lead angel investor as " Seed stage first cheque funded companies will never be a priority for a VC firm. " VCs are more willing to write off investments than angel investors as " losing money is accepted norm for the VC firm with the seed stage first cheque invested companies ". ".. VCs are playing a high-stakes all-or-nothing game ." Raising a seed round from VCs denies entrepreneurs ...

A Mint article quotes Venture Intelligence data on fund raising in 2016: Private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms set new fund-raising milestones and raised a combined $4.9 billion in 2016 across 33 India-dedicated funds, according to research and analytics firm Venture Intelligence.  This was 9% more than the corresponding figure in 2015, when a total of $4.5 billion was raised by PE and VC firms across 27 deals. The top five PE and VC funds in 2016 raised about $3.35 billion, up from $2.4 billion by the top five funds last year, Venture Intelligence data showed.  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.

To have a higher chance for raising funding, startup entrepreneurs need to target investors based on parameters such as: Age of the company Investment Size Stage of the company (Product fit, Market fit, Scaling etc) Investment round (Seed, Series A, etc) Sector e.g. While there are funds who are stage agnostic (e.g. Sequoia Capital), there are certain funds who prefer to invest at seed stage level (e.g. Blume Ventures). Which is why in the  Handbook on Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Early Stage Funding , we provide entrepreneurs with the lay of the VC land. You can download a larger list of investors based on the above infographic from the link below: Handbook on Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Early Stage Funding Incubators and Accelerators in India Angel Investors in India Seed Funds in India Early Stage (Series A & B) Investors in India SME-Focused Investors in India Impact Investors in India Deal Platforms ...

In an Economic Times article chronicling the worries of PE Industry in India,  " Private equity: Worst over for industry but old worries remain ", journalists Sneha Shah & Rica Bhattacharyya use Venture Intelligence data to track Fund Raising in India: Interested in tracking Fund Raising in India, LP investors in funds, etc - take a trial to the Venture Intelligence PE/VC Deals 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. 

At the recent Venture Intelligence APEX PE-VC Summit, Bharati Jacob, Managing Partner, Seedfund shared how the closure of Seedfund's second fund got set back by more than two years because the foreign investors who were about to invest in the fund, got spooked by the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008. One American LP (Limited Partner or investor in PE/VC funds) pulled out saying  "India and Pakistan are eyeball to eyeball and could go to war any minute and I cannot invest in India any more." Their pulling out caused a herd mentality among the other investors, causing almost all the LPs to pull out. Despite India's economy picking up, she recounts " we did not have LPs who understood local conditions... overseas LPs were looking at it through their own tinted lens". "Things have not changed too much now - from being hyphenated with Pakistan, we are now hyphenated with China," she added This episode underlines the need for a deeper pool ...