Flashback 2020
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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 ......
Finance
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 ......
Consumer
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 ......
Infrastructure
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 ......
Finance
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 ......
Finance
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 ......
Economy
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 ......
Healthcare
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 ......
Finance
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 ......