Posts from PrivateCircle covering deals in the unlisted market
Welcome to the ‘It’s-a-big-deal’ blog, powered by PrivateCircle Research. It’s-a-big-deal is a video series where we dive into the world of Indian private markets and analyze deals to provide context with insights. In this episode, our criteria includes all the unlisted companies in India that secured PE/VC deals between 06-12 March, 2023. We have 19 deals…
Read moreIt’s big deal is series where we use our PrivateCircle Research engine to conduct in-depth research and analysis on the India private market deals that happened over a said period of a week.
Read moreOur rationale for covering growth metrics It is the end of the first quarter since we decided to change the format of our weekly deal coverage. Instead of giving a deal summary, we have been reporting company headline financials of hyper-growth companies that had a deal in the previous week. It served two purposes, We have…
Read moreWe are trying a new format for our weekly deal summary by including growth metrics for the companies. Here are some of the following reasons to change the format. Already dedicated pages and coverage for unicorns and large deals are aplenty in press and online. We find these largely overlap with many feeds that our…
Read moreThe week clearly belonged to the fintech sector with a significant volume and one more addition to the unicorn club. As is usual we will cover the unicorn and large deals before we get to these deals. Deals above 100 cr. Oxyzo Financial Services raised 1521 cr Series A round and enters unicorn club, the…
Read moreAmagi among Unicorn Covering unicorns first, we saw Amagi entering the unicorn club with a 725 cr funding from Accel and others as it aims to scale its suite of video and media solutions. While existing unicorn Licious raised more than 1100 cr from Amansa Capital, along with Kotak PE and Axis Growth Avenues AIF-I…
Read moreWe decided to cover deals that are close to INR 10 cr in value going forward, and only cover the volumes across subsectors, locations, and company stages for smaller deals. On average, we have at least 10-15 deals every week that is 10 cr or higher in value, and typically include a couple of mega…
Read moreThe week clearly belonged to financial services with 11 fintech deals out of the 48 we had recorded in PrivateCircle.co. Before we get to that busy sector, let us briefly look at more than 100 cr deals this week. Mega deals The largest deal of the week was Reliance’s 1670 cr investment into Sanmina JV…
Read moreAfter a blockbuster last week, this week 5 of 2022 was a little tempered in deal activity. The week belonged to M&As in tech, which we will cover first before getting to other deals. M&As in Tech There were in total 6 M&A deals of which 3 were in the internet/tech space. The largest of…
Read moreIt was a heavy week from a value perspective with Swiggy turning decacorn. We had only 50 deals captured on our platform, the aggregate value of deals was well over 13000 cr. Swiggy, Ola Electric deals, and new Unicorns Swiggy turns decacorn with a 5218 cr Series K round led by Invesco, in the process…
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