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4 Stellar VC Pods

Stellaris Venture Partners $300 million Fund III   has attracted significant attention in the ecosystem - including for its size and the speed with which it was raised. The three original partners of Stellaris - Ritesh Banglani, Alok Goyal and Rahul Chowdhri - have recently shared details of the fund raise, via two different podcasts. While Ritesh and Alok spoke on the Neon Show , while Rahul appeared on Prime Venture Partners' podcast  (along with Gautam Mago of A91 Partners). The newest partner at Stellaris, Naman Lahoty, had also joined Stellaris' founders in an Yourstory Podcast  where they covered broader startup ecosystem related topics (than just the fund raise).  Stellaris has meanwhile launched its own podcast (but naturally?) - where, as part of the first episode , Rahul Chowdhri, has interviewed Kirti Varun Avasarala (a senior product executive at Meesho  and Flipkart, who has since moved to Uber). All well worth a watch / listen - especially fo...

Blackstone, Temasek, Motilal Oswal and Stakeboat Capital win APEX'23 Private Equity Awards

Blackstone, Temasek, Motilall Oswal and Stakeboat Capital were awarded as among the leading Private Equity investors in India for 2022 as part of Venture Intelligence APEX‘23 Private Equity & Venture Capital awards event in Mumbai.  The Venture Intelligence “Awards for Private Equity Excellence” (APEX) is dedicated to celebrating the best that the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital industry has to offer.  The APEX Awardees are selected based on both Self Nomination by the participating PE-VC firms as well as "crowd sourced" nominations and voting from the Limited Partner, PE-VC and advisory communities. (The main criteria are Exit Track Record, New Fund Raises & Follow-on Funding Rounds for Portfolio Companies) Temasek received the Private Equity Fund of the Year  2022 Award on the back of strong part exits during from  year from Intas Pharma (with an over 7.5x return); Devyani International (with ~4.8x) and Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals (wit...