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| Avenue Venture Partners planning to raise around $66M in second realty fund (Premium Subscriber Only) |
| SWET SARIKA |
| The realty investment firm recently clocked its debut exit from its investment in Assetz Property Group, clocking 1.5x with 62 per cent IRR. |
| Norwest Venture Partners part exits Shriram City Union Finance with 4.2x (Premium Subscriber Only) |
| SHRUTI AMBAVAT |
| Norwest has been an active investor in the Indian financial services space with investments in companies including Cholamandalam Finance, ING Vysya Bank and IndusInd Bank. |
| SEBI registered PE funds' dry powder rose to $1.5B last quarter (Premium Subscriber Only) |
| TEAM VCC |
| Venture capital firms registered under the AIF norms saw their dry powder increase to $105 million, as of March 31, 2014. |
| Licensing income can bring upsides to our target of $1B revenue by 2018: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon (Premium Subscriber Only) |
| LOHIT JAGWANI |
| The company expects its small molecule API and ANDA business to be lead revenue generator followed by research services, biosimilars and branded formulations. |
| Reliance Capital-backed Pathways looks at JVs to open more schools (Premium Subscriber Only) |
| DIKSHA DUTTA |
| In 2010, Reliance Equity Advisors, the private equity arm of Reliance Capital, invested Rs 120 crore in the School. |
| Swiss private investment firm Partners Group opens India office in Mumbai |
| ANURADHA VERMA |
| Cyrus Driver, who was roped in by the firm to lead the company's direct investment activity in India two years ago, is the head of the local office. |
| SAIF Partners launches seed initiative to fund early stage technology companies |
| NIKITA PEER |
| SAIF Partners has been investing in India since 2001 and currently has over 30 investments under its belt. |
| AirAsia gets licence for domestic airlines in India |
| TEAM VCC |
| AirAsia, which already flies to India in the international circuit, will compete with other budget carriers such as IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir besides some new players such as Air Pegasus. |
| RBI asks banks not to levy foreclosure charges on floating rate loans |
| ANURADHA VERMA |
| The consumer friendly moves come at a time when the central bank has started tracking consumer inflation as a key parameter for monetary policy changes. |
| Kajaria Ceramics to buy 51% in Taurus Tiles; hiking stake in Jaxx Vitrified |
| BHAWNA GUPTA |
| In January this year, WestBridge Capital picked up additional stake in Kajaria Ceramics to push up its holding to 12.25 per cent stake in the company. |
| Pegasystems acquires Bangalore-based text mining & analytics firm MeshLabs |
| SAINUL K ABUDHEEN |
| MeshLabs is an incubatee of GINSERV, a Bangalore-based technology business incubator and accelerator. |
| Nadathur-backed biotech firm Connexios ink collaboration deal with Boehringer Ingelheim for diabetes research |
| JASLEEN KAUR BATRA |
| The early stage drug discovery and development company had previously raised funding from the private investment vehicle of NS Raghavan, co-founder and former joint MD of Infosys. |
| Norwest Venture Partners invests $7M in customer relationship management firm CRMnext |
| NIKITA PEER |
| In the CRM space, the VC firm has previously backed Capillary Technologies and Manthan Systems. |
| Alibaba files for big US IPO; Indian SMEs among the top buyers on Alibaba.com |
| SAINUL K ABUDHEEN |
| Its three marketplaces generated a combined GMV of $248 billion from 231 million active buyers and 8 million active sellers in 12 months ended December 31, 2013. |
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