The fund, Norwest’s 11th since its founding almost 50 years ago, will give the firm more money to fund larger companies

For the period January-October 2008, only four PE exits worth 164 million dollars took place compared with 28 exits worth $499 million between January and October this year

Halcyon Resources and Management Pvt. Ltd chairman and CEO Narayan K. Seshadri speaks about his investment strategy and the opportunities in distressed assets funding

Experts say the offers would need to be ‘snacking content’ of 3-4 minutes for the ventures to work well

Limited partners are not comfortable with PEs focusing on public markets, says managing director and chief executive of UTI Ventures Management Co. Pvt. Ltd, Raja Kumar

Acumen Fund has invested $35 million worldwide and has a mandate of committing Rs30-50 crore every year in India

Avoiding risk, investing in established firms is what venture capital companies are doing to balance their portfolio

In India, Helion has taken the lead in VCs turning more flexible in their approach toinvestments and dabbling in new sectors

This year, most PE exits have been through stake sales in the open market, as opposed to M&As in 2008

Portfolio firms are now expected to take an additional 12-18 months to reach their revenue targets

The Venture Capital fund will encourage and support young entrepreneurs having brilliant business ideas

Baring Private Equity’s Rahul Bhasin says what gave returns in the past was underlying growth in businesses. So, if you picked your companies well and added some value, you enjoyed phenomenal returns

VC activity is picking up slowly as economic growth accelerates and the markets rise

Despite the positive sentiment returning in the VC space, investment are still low on an year-on-year basis

Data from VCCEdge, VCCircle’s financial research unit, shows divergent trends in these two sectors in the first nine months of 2009

These firms are an organized form of individual-to-individual lending and leverage the microfinance model

DHPL is building the casino at a resort in the Union territory of Daman near the west coast in Maharashtra

Recession-proof nature, small size of deals and the social impact, among other factors, draw investor interest

The aggregation or roll-up model allows firms to reach size and lends itself to a viable exit for investors

Giving a stake at the onset of a business, particularly to VC firms, can bring constraints rather than support