Perk up in public markets aids PE exits in Q2’13

JustDial IPO fetches over 10x return for SAIF; TPG exits Shriram Transport Finance with over 6x
Private Equity firms obtained exit routes for their investments in 29 Indian companies during Q2 ’13 up 38% over the 21 exits in the same period a year ago (and 21% over the 24 exits in the immediate previous quarter), according to data from Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a

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Deal Alert: E-com firm Klip raises angel funding

Online product discovery site Klip.in has raised funding from angel investors linked to start-up accelerator VentureNursery. The Mumbai-based company helps users discover unique lifestyle products from across the web by aggregating and curating them based on their social connections and interest graph. It was part of VentureNursery’s second batch that concluded in April.



Klip is part of

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Deal Alert: Online Real Estate listings firm CommonFloor raises $7.5 M more from Tiger Global, Accel India

Bangalore-based real estate search engine and listings site CommonFloor has raised $7.5 million in additional funding from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Accel India. The funds will be used to expand into new markets, for sales and marketing and for product development.



From the Venture Intelligence PE Deal database: In August 2009 Accel India had invested $0.22 million and

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Deal Alert: Jungle Ventures leads $1.1 M Series A round for impacting funding platform Milaap

Milaap Social Ventures, an impact-focused fundraising platform, has raised a Series A round of $ 1.1 millionled by Singapore-based early stage investment firm Jungle Ventures. Other investors included Toivo Annus – co-founder & former Head of Engineering at Skype; Lionrock Capital – a Singapore-based family investment office; Jayesh Parekh – co-founder of Sony Entertainment TV; and existing

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Deal Alert: CashKaro to raise $750-K from UK angels

Cashkaro.com, a subsidiary of UK-based Pouring Pounds is to close its first round of funding of Rs 4.5-5 crore ($750,000) from a group of angel investors in London. Cashkaro is a cashback and coupon website which works with over 350 companies and has about 40,000 registered users.



Source: Business World




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Mega buyouts prop PE investments to $2.3 B in Q2’13; 6 month figure drops 19%

Manufacturing Cos grab a third of pie; Deal Volumes remain flat QoQ; Goldman steps on the Gas  

Private Equity firms invested about $2,330 million across 82 deals during the quarter ended June 2013, according to early data from Venture Intelligence (http://www.ventureintelligence.in), a research service focused on private company financials, transactions and valuations in India. The investment

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PE Investments in Real Estate Perk up in Q2'13

Private Equity-Real Estate firms made 13 investments (amounting to $318 million across 12 deals with disclosed values) during the quarter ended June 2013, according to the data from Venture Intelligence. The volume of investments was a significant perk up from the seven investments in the same period in the previous year (which witnessed $172 million being invested across six transactions with

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