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Even as 2017 witnesses a shrinking of overall Early Stage Venture Capital activity, WaterBridge Ventures – a new early stage focused firm - has notched up as many as six investments already during the year. In an interview to Venture Intelligence, Manish Kheterpal , WaterBridge’s Founder & Managing Partner– an IIT-Delhi & Stanford alum who had worked earlier at Providence Equity Partners, Actis Capital and Rho Capital Partners - expands on the firm’s fund raising experience and investment outlook. Venture Intelligence: You had announced a first close of your INR 100 Cr ($15 M) fund in mid 2016 with about $5 M (INR 33 Cr). How was the fund raising experience?  Manish Kheterpal: We were fortunate to launch the fund in 2016 without the need for an anchor investor. That helped us get our team, processes and market presence sorted, and also make some early investments while being highly selective about our portfolio. Since we are building a curated portfolio of...

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 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 Capital firms made 242 investments worth $910 Million in the first nine months of 2017 - 30% lower compared to 346 deals worth $1.1 Billion recorded in the same period in 2016, data from Venture Intelligence shows. The investments in Jan-Sep 2017 are 42% lower than the all time highs (of 414 deals) seen in the comparable period in 2015. Note: Venture Capital is defined by Venture Intelligence as Seed to Series D round investments in companies less than 10 years old with value of up to $20 Million. July - September Quarter VC firms invested about $271 Million across 63 deals during the quarter ended September 2017 – the lowest among the preceding 9 quarters. The investments were 37% lower compared to the same period in 2016 which registered 100 deals worth $429 deals. The latest quarter witnessed a significant low down in early stage tech investments as well as in non-tech sectors. Among the sectors that saw a significant fall in early stage investments included...

Extracts from an Economic Times article titled "How India's two largest angel investor groups are fine tuning their funding strategies": The scale these networks are staring at as well as the manner India's startup ecosystem has developed in the past two to three years are forcing an overhaul that both IAN and Mumbai Angels like to fashion up as another stage of evolution.  "During the early days, there were only two large networks. You were not only getting money but access to the finest brains in the country. But post 2013, a number of micro venture capital funds have come up. Several entrepreneurs now prefer getting money from a single investor when they need a cheque of Rs 1-3 crore rather than have 20 angels pool in their money, which has its own challenges," said Anil Joshi, managing partner at Unicorn India Ventures, an early-stage fund.   ..."It's an evolution because when we started out nobody understood startups as an asset clas...

$17.6 B invested in just the first 9 months of the year surpasses the previous full year high of $17.3 Billion recorded in the entire of 2015, Venture Intelligence data shows.  SoftBank’s mega bets on Internet & Mobile companies accounts for 24% of total investment value Private Equity firms invested about $17.6 Billion in Indian companies in just the first 9 months of 2017 - sailing past the previous high of $17.3 Billion recorded in CY 2015, data from Venture Intelligence, India’s longest serving research service focused on private company financials, transactions and their valuations, shows. The year has already recorded as many as 21 investments over $200 million in size in addition to 15 deals between $100 million and $200 million. The mega deals have been dominated by four sectors: Internet & Mobile; Infrastructure; IT Services & BPO and BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance). Over $4 Billion of the investment value - 24% of the total - has...

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.