Elev8 Venture appoints former Eight Roads exec as partner
Elev8 Venture Partners, a growth-stage venture capital firm backed by multi‑stage venture investing platform Venture Catalysts, has hired a former executive at global VC firm Eight Roads Ventures to beef up its top deck. The Bengaluru-based investment firm, which was set up by former Kae Capital partner Navin Honagudi and closed ......
VC-backed haircare brand Traya eyes new categories, offline play for expansion
Traya, a direct-to-consumer haircare brand that counts venture capital firm Fireside Ventures and mid-market private equity firm Xponentia Capital as investors, is expanding its product offerings across categories and diversifying its distribution formats as part of efforts to accelerate revenue growth, a top executive told VCCircle. Traya, operated by Tatvartha Health ......
Inflexor Ventures looks to exit two portfolio firms, eyes new fund’s first close
Technology-focused venture capital firm Inflexor Ventures is actively looking at exiting at least two portfolio companies via stake sales to strategic players, a senior executive told VCCircle. The monetisation plans come even as the VC firm gears up for the first close of its third fund by early January 2026 after collecting around ......
Aavishkaar’s Anurag Agrawal on investment strategy, balancing impact with returns and more
Impact investor Aavishkaar Capital, which manages assets worth nearly $500 million (Rs 4,507 crore), has been investing in India since 2001. The firm is currently deploying capital from its sixth fund, launched in 2022 and closed in late 2023 with a corpus of Rs 1,200 crore, even as it prepares to ......
Flashback 2025: Blackstone's hirings, Peak XV’s exits and other PE/VC people moves
Global funds operating in the country, including Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus and Temasek Holdings, made key management changes over the past year while Indian private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms added to their leadership ranks. Meanwhile, one of India's most active VCs, Peak XV Partners ......
Grapevine: Livspace buys Abby Lighting; Mintoak, Neeman’s in funding news
Home interiors company Livspace has picked up a majority stake in Mumbai-based Abby Lighting for about Rs 204 crore (about $23 million), a media report said. The deal includes Rs 173 crore in cash and Rs 31 crore via share swap, under which Abby’s co-founders Sanjay Bajaj and Suresh Bajaj will ......
Arise Ventures founder Ankita Vashistha on third fund, AI focus and more
Early-stage venture capital firm Arise Ventures is in the middle of scaling up after more than a decade of investing across India, the US, and Singapore. Having backed companies such as software company Uniphore, meat and seafood delivery platform Licious, cosmetics marketplace Luxola, and HR technology provider Phenom across its ......
Europen infra PE firm makes maiden foray into India's EV sector with a JV
Copenhagen-headquartered infrastructure focused private equity firm A.P. Moller Capital has made its maiden foray into the Indian green energy sector by forming a joint venture with a solar power engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider. The new joint venture will look to develop utility-scale renewable projects, with an initial 900 MW ......
AP Moller Capital makes India foray with green energy bet
Copenhagen-headquartered infrastructure-focused private equity firm AP Moller Capital has made its maiden foray into the Indian green energy sector by forming a joint venture with a solar power engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider. The new joint venture will look to develop utility-scale renewable projects, with an initial 900 MW of ......
Deals Digest: Year-end holiday pause shrinks PE, VC funding
With the final full week of 2025 coinciding with the Christmas holiday, private equity and venture capital activity slowed to a seasonal lull, as investors and founders stepped back toward year-end, according to data compiled by VCCircle. A total of 13 deals worth $205.6 million (around Rs 1,846 crore) were announced ......
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