Flashback 2020

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TMT

28 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: Tech sizzles in hard times, Reliance soaks up telecom glory

Coronavirus helped telecom and technology emerge as some of the hottest private equity investment destinations in 2020 even as the ......

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Finance

28 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: Venture funding falls but angel, seed deals bright spot for startups

The year began with murmurs of a funding winter for startups in the wake of the economic slowdown. The murmurs ......

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Consumer

24 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: Virus forces all shoppers online, escalates three-way e-tail battle

Coronavirus induced an initial lockdown in India in March, starting a forced large-scale consumer experiment like no other as fear ......

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Infrastructure

24 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: Infrastructure growth collapses but Adani, Ambani seal big deals

In an economic downturn, spending on the infrastructure sector is usually the biggest, if not the first, casualty.  As the Indian ......

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Finance

23 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: New PE bosses, rise of women at VCs in top people moves this year

The coronavirus pandemic threw a spanner in the hiring activities of private equity and venture capital firms as social distancing ......

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Finance

23 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: Virus manages to shoo away almost everyone from stressed assets

The distressed assets market was still going through teething problems from the four-year bankruptcy law when the Covid-19 pandemic struck ......

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Economy

22 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: A limping economy and high human cost in a year best forgotten

As the year 2020 began, few would have imagined that the world would literally be thrown into the biggest crisis ......

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Healthcare

22 December, 2020

Flashback 2020: Vaccine makers, healthtech in spotlight as Covid-19 rages

Indian vaccine makers took centre stage in 2020 as the country and emerging markets pinned their hopes on them to ......

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Finance

16 December, 2020

Dealmaking in 2020: Reliance, Reliance and Reliance (and a few others)

It’s a year we would like to forget. But we won’t. Mukesh Ambani won’t either. But for entirely different reasons. This ......