The Venture Intelligence Blog

CNBCTV18 carried data from Venture Intelligence on PE-VC investments by Chinese and Japanese investors. 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 Deal Tracker on The Mint - tracking 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. For comprehensive coverage on upcoming PE/VC, M&A, Angel and Strategic Investments  sign-up  to our Daily/Weekly Newsletter. View a  sample Deal Digest 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 Deal Tracker on The Mint - tracking 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. For comprehensive coverage on upcoming PE/VC, M&A, Angel and Strategic Investments  sign-up  to our Daily/Weekly Newsletter. View a  sample Deal Digest 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 quotes Venture Intelligence data on the falling seed investments in 2017. Seed investments are at a 3-year low. 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. 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. The Deal Tracker is featured in the Deals Section (Page 3) every Monday. 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. The Deal Tracker is featured in the Deals Section (Page 3) every Monday. 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  International Business Times article by Ravi Menon, covering the effect of recent regulations on Indian Real Estate, quotes Venture Intelligence data on Private Equity investments in the sector: Private equity (PE) players may still not buy into the realty gloom story. PE funds have put in $2.5 billion across 29 deals in real estate in the first half (H1) of 2017, which is 61 per cent higher than the corresponding period of 2016, according to data collated by Venture Intelligence . That points to robust optimism ruling the residential market. But there is a catch. Only half of the deals closed in H1 are residential and the rest are commercial, unlike two years ago, when 100 per cent of the deals were residential. 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 Business Standard article quotes Venture Intelligence data on Private Equity investments and exits in Shriram Group, which is in talks with IDFC for a potential merger. "The group firms have attracted an investment of $1.08 billion infused by 17 PE players over a period of 12 to 15 years. This is excluding the strategic investments, including Piramal and Sanlam, and debt investments. According to Venture Intelligence data, Shriram City Union Finance raised $550 million from a number of PE players including Norwest, ChrysCapital, Merrill Lynch, CPIM Funds, ICICI Venture, Bessemer, and Apax Partners. According to Venture Intelligence data, there were 17 exits — both complete and partial — from SCUF between June 2008 and July 2016. These have brought back a return multiple ranging from 1.91x for ICICI Venture to 4.97x for Norwest Venture Partners. STFC has seen a complete exit of TPG Capital for a return multiple of 6.05x in May 2013 and three partial exits by ChrysCapital...

A Japan Times article quotes Venture Intelligence data on investment by Japanese firms in India: Japanese firms invested at least $1.43 billion (about ¥163 billion) in Indian private equity and venture capital deals in the first half of 2017, more than triple the $459 million in 2016, according to data provided by Indian research firm Venture Intelligence.   Telecommunications giant SoftBank Group Corp. accounted for $1.40 billion, or 98.9 percent, of the first-half sum with two large deals in the telecom sector. Six other deals were sealed with Japanese companies, ranging from marketing for agriculture and logistics to travel and wellness, the data showed. In one of its two deals, SoftBank invested in One97 Communications Ltd., which operates India’s largest mobile payment and commerce platform under the Paytm brand. The remaining $30 million came from Mistletoe Inc., GREE Ventures Inc., Rebright Partners Ltd. and SoftBank, in partnership with other non-Japanese firms, in...

A  Entrepreneur.com article interviewing Karthik Prabhakar, Director - IDG Ventures, quotes Venture Intelligence data on the funding scenario in India: "there have been 90 VC investments in Q1 worth $270 M+ compared to 120 investments in the same quarter of previous year (Source: Venture Intelligence). Hence, there is no real drastic slowdown in the early stage investments as such. " We at Venture Intelligence have maintained that, barring 2015, Q1 2016 has been one of the best quarters for VC funding. Re-Catch the Coverage below: 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.  Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

An Economic Times article by Shalini Pillai uses Venture Intelligence data to showcase investments (or the lack thereof) in Cleantech companies. "Data analytics firm  Venture Intelligence  says only 40 companies in the space have been funded in the last three years, and most of them are big companies that started operations before 2007." Cleantech companies featured in the article include Green India Building Systems (GIBBS) which uses geothermal cooling for buildings and Threadsol , which helps reduce fabric waste in the textile industry. Love cleantech companies? So do we. We've got a separate Deals Database focused on them. Take a look . 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.  Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaus...

An Economic Times article by Biswarup Gupta uses Venture Intelligence data on the growing acquisitions of startups due to the funding slowdown and what the ecosystem can expect in the coming financial year. In the fiscal year ended March 31, the number of mergers and acquisitions involving technology startups more than doubled to 146 transactions from 69 in 2014-15, according to (deals) data tracker Venture Intelligence.   Other Trends:  1. On demand hyperlocal services, fin-tech ventures (e.g. wallet companies), and OTAs are touted as prime targets. (Want a list?  mail us ) 2. More consolidation this year -  Aashish Bhinde, Avendus Capital. 3. Flipkart & Snapdeal to continue their pace of acquisitions in FY2017. 4. Common investors tend to catalyze the situation (acquisition/merger) - Sameer Sood, Credit Suisse 5. Acquisitions will be more via stock in order to reduce cash outgo - Navroz Mahudawala, Candle Partners Venture Intelligence is In...

An  Economic Times article by Sobia Khan & Kailash Babar uses Venture Intelligence data on to showcase rising PE interest in Commercial Real Estate Projects: In 2015, private equity real estate firms deployed more than $5 billion in Indian real estate companies and projects — the highest since the financial crisis of 2008 — through 90 deals, according to research from Venture Intelligence . Large investors and established developers also created several joint venture platforms in the past year. Of the investment made, commercial projects accounted for 10%, (compared to 6% in 2014). Other Trends: 1. Given most of the private equity funds in India receive funds from sovereign funds and pension fund - completed leased commercial assets are seen as the best bet for these investors. 2. Active setting up of tie-ups/platforms with builders Tata Group's real estate and infrastructure development arm, Tata Realty & Infrastructure, partnered with Standard C...

A Hindu Businessline article by Meera Siva uses Venture Intelligence data to track valuation trends: Down rounds and exits are not new for Indian start-ups.  Venture Intelligence data show that many companies had raised funding at reduced share price in the 2013-15 period as well. For example, Fashion and You, backed by VC firms such as Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital India, saw a deep discount to its November 2011 valuation, during its June 2014 funding round.  The acquisition of Commonfloor by Quikr is said to be at a discount to the $160-million valuation that Google Capital funded it at. Likewise, Baby Oye’s acquisition by the Mahindra group is another exit that is said to have led to losses and write-offs for investors such as Accel Partners and Tiger Global. The article further states that  one can expect the following trends going forward: 1. Fire sales for weak businesses may continue 2. Sliding valuations may only pinch B2C...

A Business Standard article by Ranju Sarkar uses Venture Intelligence exit data, to analyse exits in Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals sector. Recent Healthcare IPOs have also delivered good returns for PE/VC investors, Catch our analysis of these companies through the links below: Thyrocare Technologies IPO Healthcare Global IPO Dr. Lal Pathlabs 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.  Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Weekly Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

A BusinessWorld article  by Paramita Chatterjee uses Venture Intelligence data on Startup acquisitions and markdown in valuations of Flipkart and Zomato as "early signs of shakeout or consolidation in the industry". As per data available with research firm Venture Intelligence , as many as 139 acquisitions took place in the startup space in 2015, more than double the number of startup acquisitions that were sealed in 2014. In 2013, as many as 42 startups were acquired by the biggies in the sector and the number is only expected to grow! 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.  Click Here to Sign Up for the FREE Edition of the Deal Digest: India's First & Most Exhaustive Transactions Newsletter.

In a boost to social entrepreneurship in India the Michael And Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) has further allocated $50 million for India startups according to an  Inc42 article , which features Venture Intelligence data from our Social VC/Impact Investing Report : "According to experts, impact investing in India has remained largely stagnant in terms of deal activity, over the last two years. As per the data by Venture Intelligence , 2015 and 2014 saw transactions worth $104 Mn spread over 57 deals and $106 Mn across 49 transactions, respectively. While the year 2016 has seen 14 transactions so far, amounting to $42 Mn." Are you an investor interested in viewing impact investments in India. Reach out  to us to take a look at India's longest serving Private Equity & Venture Capital Deal Database. Venture Intelligence is India's longest serving provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&...

An article by the New Indian Express , uses Venture Intelligence data to track investments by Tiger Global in Carat Lane: In all, Tiger Global had invested $50 million in the four rounds. In the latest round, in January, 2015, Caratlane raised $30 million or Rs 185 crore at a valuation of Rs 710 crore for a 26 per cent stake, according to data from Venture Intelligence . Titan may pay a premium for the stake or could be at the same valuation at which Tiger Global invested in Caratlane, sources said. Here is a snapshot of the the First round investment by Tiger Global in Carat Lane from the Venture Intelligence Deals Database : If you are a subscriber, Click here to login, and click on the below links to view the other rounds of investment in the company, its financials, valuations, transaction multiple etc: Tiger Global - Mar 2012 Investment Tiger Global - Aug 2013 Investment Tiger Global - Jan 2015 Investment Carat Lane Latest Financial Numbers If you...

In an Economic Times article , journalists Shailesh Menon & Indulal PM use Venture Intelligence Exit data for returns in PE/VC investments in Microfinance companies: Microfinance has drawn private equity funds with the sector generating an average return of 5.8 times to invested capital during 2010 to 2015, according to data from Venture Intelligence .  The following reasons have been stated by the article for the resurgence of interest in Microfinance sector: Recent successful exits in Equitas Holdings & Ujjivan MFI Growing loan book (The industry loan book has increased by 130% to Rs 47,200 crore in 2014-15) Rationalising of lending rates and higher profitability in the post-Andhra crisis. RBI decision to award small finance banks (SFB) licences to some of the MFIs 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 In...