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 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 moreI 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…
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…
Read moreQuick 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…
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