The co-working space market in India has experienced a surge in growth over the past few years. The rising number of startups, entrepreneurs, and freelancers, who are opting for flexible and cost-effective workspaces, has been a major driving force behind the growth of this market. According to a report by JLL, there has been a…
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Posts that explain reports that we release periodically around unlisted markets. All reports are downloadable freely from privatecircle.co.
Indian AI-Based Solutions Companies’ Deals Overview | Q4 2021 – Q3 2022.
In recent years, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed the way people live, work, and think. With a wide range of industry verticals, AI-based solutions companies’ are transforming the Indian business landscape. Indian AI Market Highlights Industries such as IT, financial services, telecommunications and media, and retail, which are highly digitized, have been…
Read moreUnderstanding Data Quality, Fill Rate, and Data Coverage: Key Metrics for Evaluating Data Subscriptions
Financial data are mostly tabular small data, even that has a huge impact on how businesses operate especially when the data is accurate, complete, and filled at a decent pace. When evaluating data or intelligence providers it may be worthwhile asking vendors to disclose some of these metrics before making the call.
Read moreIndian Fintech Deals Overview | Q4 2021 – Q3 2022
With the world’s highest Fintech adoption rate at 87%, India stands substantially higher than the worldwide average of 64%. The adoption has gained traction by a favorable demographic dividend, digitalization, data ecosystem, adaptable public infrastructure, and ongoing technology innovation. Indian Fintech industry highlights We examined the fintech deals during Q4 2021 – Q3 2022 and…
Read moreIndian startups that became Unicorn(s) in 2022
As the third largest startup ecosystem in the world, India continues to add more of its startups into the unicorn club. Inching towards the end of Q4, 2022, the post-pandemic economy has about 77,000 DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) recognized startups across 656 districts of the country. With a valuation of $1 Billion…
Read moreShareholding in Private Unlisted Companies
Over the last few years, we saw a lot more coverage of institutional investors’ activity in private markets. Founders themselves have been diluting their stake at a fast clip to raise capital. To understand such dilution and VC/PE activity in unlisted companies, we take a long view and track deal activity and ownership trends from…
Read moreEV Sector Reports
The Electric Vehicle sector globally has been mainly focused on passenger cars and replacing the internal combustion engine domination. Several factors including climate change, and the ban on IC engine manufacturing by several countries have exacerbated this trend further. The Indian EV market is dominated by 2W and 3W which is possibly unique to the…
Read moreCompeting for Tech Talent: Listed Companies vs Funded Startups
I wrote a paper during the delta wave covering talent issues that many startups were and are still facing in India. This paper appeared as part of a special issue in the International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness volume 17, pages 64–72 (2022). The main issue that I tackled using data from privatecircle.co is…
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