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1May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

India Will Receive $35-40 Billion Worth Impact Investments By 2025

India is projected to see impact investments worth up to USD 40 billion by 2025 as the country is in a "sweet spot" with high potential to deliver solutions for various problems, according to global grouping GIIN. Based in New York, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a not-for-profit group that works to promote impact investments and has around 230 members. Generally, impact investments refer to those made with the aim of having a social and environmental impact along with the investors getting financial returns. GIINs Advisor for South Asia, Anil Sinha said, there has been tremendous development in India around impact investing activities in the last five years and the country is in a sweet spot. "In India, about USD 4 billion has been invested as part of impact inv...

Amazon Will Keep Investing Billions in India: Jeff Bezos

29Apr By RishabhNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

Amazon Will Keep Investing Billions in India: Jeff Bezos

Global e-commerce major Amazon will keep investing in the Indian market to strengthen technology and infrastructure as it looks to overtake local rival Flipkart. The US-based company has already committed investments to the tune of $5 billion in India. “Our India team is moving fast and delivering for customers and sellers. It’s still day 1 for e-commerce in India, and I assure you that we’ll keep investing in technology and infrastructure,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. The world’s second richest man also said “Amazon.in is the most visited and the fastest-growing marketplace in India.” Amazon, which entered India in 2013, has been locked in an intense battle with Tiger Global-backed Flipkart for leadership in the Indian market. Amazon has been aggr...

BigBasket to Invest Rs 50 Cr in B2B Food Services Business

13Apr By AdityaNo Comments

News

BigBasket to Invest Rs 50 Cr in B2B Food Services Business

Online grocery store BigBasket today said it plans to invest Rs 50 crore over the next 12 months to scale up revenues coming from hotels and restaurants segment. The company, which started supplying grocery to hotels, restaurants and caterers (HoReCa) segment from June last year, aims to clock a revenue run rate of Rs 500 crore from the segment by March 2018. Revenue run rate is a term used in online retailing to indicate total value of merchandise sold over a time-frame to predict future performance. "BigBasket is setting up dedicated distribution centres across eight cities to scale up the business and has plans to achieve Rs 500 crore exit rate by end of FY 2018," BigBasket co-founder and Head (New Initiatives) Abhinay Choudhari said in a statement. At the end of March this ...

Crowdfunding Platform DesiredWings Acquires Catapooolt

7Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Crowdfunding Platform DesiredWings Acquires Catapooolt

Promoters of crowdfunding platform Desiredwings.com have acquired Catapooolt.com for an undisclosed sum. Both the brands will stay in the market post this acquisition, focusing on different segments of the crowdfunding industry. By virtue of this acquisition, together Desired Wings and Catapooolt "stand as leaders and the largest crowdfunding platform" with various diversified successfully funded campaigns to its portfolio, a company release said. "Post this acquisition, we have secured the leadership position in the industry and now with the combined strength of both the brands, we can grow faster and also help shape this industry," Shabir Momin, co-founder, DesiredWings, said. DesiredWings facilitates business idea validation and development, helps start-ups prefund their future pro...

Public Pension Capital Acquires Viteos Fund Services

5Apr By AdityaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Public Pension Capital Acquires Viteos Fund Services

Public Pension Capital (PPC) and FiveW Capital today announced they, together with Viteos management, have acquired Viteos Fund Services, a leading provider of middle- and back-office technology and services for the investment management industry. The transaction brings together a group of financial and strategic investors experienced in building and growing technology and service providers. The Viteos management team will continue to lead the company. Viteos, founded in 2003, provides customized straight-through-processing and integrates post-trade operations for the investment management industry in the United States, Europe and Asia. It is a leader in shadow-accounting services and offers a full range of middle- and back-office outsourcing through its 500+ employees and straight-thro...

Venture Capital Aspada Invests in Fruits and Vegetables Distribution Startup Waycool

4Apr By AdityaNo Comments

FUNDING

Venture Capital Aspada Invests in Fruits and Vegetables Distribution Startup Waycool

Aspada Investment Company has made a $2.7 million investment in Chennai-based Waycool Foods and Products PrivateLimited (Waycool) Waycool is a fresh produce distribution company that sources fruits and vegetables from small-hold farmers and aggregators and sells through multiple distribution channels spanning small local shops, modern retail outlets, and HORECA (hotels, restaurants and catering establishments). Waycool currently operates predominantly in Tamil Nadu via a distribution hub in Chennai. With Aspada's investment, Waycool will extend its reach to other major cities, including Bangalore and Hyderabad, build atechnology platform to reduce inefficiencies in the supply chain, and augment the company's existing infrastructure. Aspada's investment in Waycool adds significant op...

Warburg Pincus Invests Rs 500 Cr in Kalyan Jewellers

3Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Warburg Pincus Invests Rs 500 Cr in Kalyan Jewellers

Kerala-based Kalyan Jewellers today announced American private equity firm Warburg Pincus has invested an additional Rs 500 crore in the company. The proceeds will be used for expansion of its network in both domestic and overseas market, a company statement said. With the second round of investment, the American PE firms total investment in Kalyan Jewellers has increased to Rs 1,700 crore. It had invested Rs 1,200 crore in 2014. "The investment by Warburg Pincus is a vindication of the strong growth trajectory of the company," Kalyan Jewellers Chairman and Managing Director T S Kalyanaraman said in a statement. The company plans to nearly double its presence to 200 plus showrooms using a combination of equity, debt and internal accruals, he said. It is also working on a bluepri...

Rooter Raises Funds From Intex Technologies

30Mar By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Rooter Raises Funds From Intex Technologies

Intex Technologies, a mobile handset and consumer electronics company, said it has invested in Rooter, a sports engagement platform, thus marking its foray in start up funding. Commenting on the investment, Keshav Bansal, Director, Intex Technologies said, "As sports is an extremely emotion-driven phenomenon and the sports fan engagement platform is a completely uncharted territory, Rooter has limitless scope for growth...By funding start-up ventures like Rooter, we want to take brand Intex to the next level where it connects with the global audience. "Intex Technologies...is now entering into funding innovative start-ups with the first being Rooter - the world’s first digital platform that connects, engages and helps sports audiences to interact with each other on a real-time basis ...

Route Mobile Founders Invests 65 Crores to Start Its Gaming Startup

29Mar By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Route Mobile Founders Invests 65 Crores to Start Its Gaming Startup

Route Mobile founders Rajdip and Sandip Gupta today announced an investment of USD 10 million or over Rs 65 crore to start an electronic gaming startup, Cobx Gaming Ventures. "As avid gamers ourselves we have always wanted to contribute to the growth of professional esports," Rajdip, the founder of Cobx, was quoted as saying in a statement. He added the esports category has matured in such a way that gamers can now consider it as a career as well. Mujahid Rupani has been named as chief executive of the new venture, the statement said. Cobx has also announced the launch of an international and Indian esports league. It will also be forming new international teams for popular online games, it added. Route Mobile is a city-based messaging and voice API company serving global clien...

India, Russia to Set Up $1 Billion Business Fund

18Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

News

India, Russia to Set Up $1 Billion Business Fund

India and Russia are setting up a USD 1 billion fund to promote mutual investments in infrastructure and technology projects, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Both the countries would contribute USD 500 million to the fund, Sitharaman said while addressing India-Russia Business Forum at the ongoing International Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS) here yesterday. While the Russian funds would be channeled through Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Indian contribution will be accrued from National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. Sitharaman elaborated upon other measures being taken by Russia and India to scale up their economic engagement and to boost bilateral trade and investment. As part of these initiatives, the India Russia CEO Forum will hol...

McAfee to Ramp Up Investment in India & Add New Jobs

14Mar By NitishNo Comments

News

McAfee to Ramp Up Investment in India & Add New Jobs

IT security firm McAfee is looking at adding more jobs at its centre in Bengaluru and will continue to invest in growing local business in India, a top official said today. Global chipmaker Intel had last September spun out McAfee as a separate company with private equity player TPG owning 51% share in the new entity. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2017. "One of our largest sites around the world is in Bangalore. We continue to invest in that. We are actually adding new functions into the site there," said Intel Security General Manager and SVP Christopher Young. "Under Intel, it was primarily development centre, but now we are adding finance, IT, HR to that site as well to support the new (unit)," he added. While Young declined to comment on investment ...

Startup Investment Firm K2 Global to Invest More in Paytm, Saavn

9Mar By NitishNo Comments

FUNDING

Startup Investment Firm K2 Global to Invest More in Paytm, Saavn

Start-up investment firm K2 Global, backed by Indian and Asian billionaires, is looking to increase its stake in online mobile applications Paytm and Saavn, which are among start-ups with strong growth market strategies in India. "We are looking to invest more in Paytm and Saavn," said the Singapore-based investor Ozi Amanant, who leads K2 Global backed by Indian and Asian billionaires, institutional investors and family wealth management offices. K2 Global, which has built up stakes in Paytm and Saavn over in about two years, is raising another round of 284 million Singapore dollars, following on to the recently closed 257 million Singapore dollars . "We have a target to raise 1 billion Singapore dollars in the next two years for investments," Amanat said. K2 Global has pledge...