Beena Parmar

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Consumer

19 October, 2021

Nabventures to revisit average deal sizes; will take more aggressive bets in agri-tech: CEO

Nabventures, an early-stage government-backed venture growth fund, is likely to pare down its average investment size per deal amid tighter ......

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Finance

18 October, 2021

True North's seventh fund to focus more on investing in digital-first firms

True North, one of the oldest Indian private equity (PE) firms, is readying to pump in money into digital-first companies ......

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TMT

14 October, 2021

Investors uncork the bubbly with 33 unicorns amid valuation doubts

Investors including marquee names such as Softbank, Tiger Global, Temasek, Capital and Falcon Edge are bending over backwards this year ......

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TMT

12 October, 2021

WestBridge, Nexus-backed Biz2Credit set to raise over $500 mn in pre-IPO round

Small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) fintech lending platform Biz2Credit Inc. is set to raise over $500 million to $1 billion ......

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Finance

11 October, 2021

Investcorp may launch second India-focused $400 mn fund in early 2022

Bahrain-based Investcorp is planning to launch a second India-focused fund early next year, even as it is sharpening its focus on real estate ......

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TMT

11 October, 2021

Fresh-to-Home, XpressBees in talks to raise capital at a unicorn valuation

Fresh-to-Home and XpressBees, two portfolio companies of Investcorp India, are in separate talks to raise capital that will catapult each ......

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Finance

10 October, 2021

Blackstone may get 5x return on IPO-bound Fino Payments Bank investment

US private equity major Blackstone Group is likely to make an over five times return on its investment in Fino ......

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Manufacturing

01 October, 2021

PE-backed personal care and speciality chemical maker enters bankruptcy

Fairwinds Private Equity-backed personal care products and speciality chemicals manufacturer has entered bankruptcy as a National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) ......

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Finance

28 September, 2021

Shopping around for MFs to get easier for PEs as regulator mulls relaxing rules

Private equity firms, including global ones, could find it easier to shop around for mutual funds as the securities regulator ......

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Finance

28 September, 2021

Everstone new fund bumps up PE firm's largest-ever corpus target, hits first close

Everstone Capital has bumped up the fundraise target for its fourth fund, which already had the largest corpus target ever ......