After 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 moreSwiggy Turns Decacorn
It 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…
Read moreMeasuring Industry Concentration
Quick Background It was a phenomenal 2021 in funding and growth among unlisted companies across subsectors in India. The high number of unicorn births and the unforeseen amount of funding for them has some side effects. These effects include industry concentration that can distort the markets. With some of these even being discussed in the…
Read moreDeals in 2W, OEM and Flying EVs
As usual, we will cover the unicorns and the mega deals first. And the next unicorn is Lead School became the third unicorn for the year, with a 740 cr funding from WestBridge and GSV at a valuation of 8135 cr. Mega deals this week WayCool raised a 870 cr series D round including a…
Read moreMeat, Egg and Veggie deals
OfBusiness and Bizongo Raw material sourcing startup ofbusiness made big news this week with a 3540 cr fundraise from several investors including Falcon Edge chipping in Rs 1,332cr, followed by Tiger Global with Rs 761cr, and lastly, SoftBank with Rs 380cr. The rest is secondary. On similar lines, but only focused on packaging, Bizongo raised…
Read moreElectric (vehicle) Week
Mega Deals The largest of the deal this week was Shiprocket raising 1400cr from Zomato, Temasek, Lightrock, and others valuing it at 7186cr. Whether it will become a unicorn before the end of the year or not is the question. CureFit raised 1088cr from Temasek, South Park Commons, Zomato, and others at a 11700cr valuation….
Read moreTiger on the rowl
Tiger deals this week The unicorn stories for 2021 is not yet over, this week we saw 3 more joining in the party. First is Upstox raising 185cr from Tiger at a valuation of 25330cr joining the likes of Zerodha in the year of unprecedented new investors coming into the market. Second was Spinny with…
Read moreAnother Mega IPO Week
Unicorns first Firstly, as usual, the unicorn deals. PayTM’s mega IPO is underway, albeit a tepid response, considering the previous IPOs of Nykaa and others that were massively oversubscribed. Of the 18300cr in the PayTM IPO, 10000cr is coming from existing investors in the OFS, while the rest is from the fresh equity issue. BYJUs…
Read moreFireworks in IPOs of Nykaa, PB, and Fino
Fireworks in Indian Tech IPOs The week (Oct 30-Nov 5 2021) was all fireworks in IPOs, when doyens of India tech successfully closed their offers. In this list we have PB Fintech raising 5710 cr (subscribed 16 times), Nykaa raising 5352 cr (subscribed 81 times), and Fino raising 1200 cr (subscribed 2 times) in the…
Read moreWeek of the skin/beauty deals
Unicorns This week (Oct 23-29 2021) has to be declared the ‘week of the skin/beauty with so many deals. But before we get there, we will cover the customary unicorns minted in the week. Acko became the 34th unicorn for the year with a 1911cr raise from General Atlantic, Multiple PE, Tiger, Alkeon and others…
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