“Tzinga is a pioneer in the energy drink category in India with innovations on product, packaging and distribution,” said V.T. Bharadwaj, managing director, Sequoia Capital India Advisors. Hector Beverages recently launched Paper Boat, a beverage that

California-based Sequoia Capital, which manages funds of about $1.4 billion in India, has invested in more than 50 companies in the country over the past five years, including Cafe Coffee Day, Idea Cellular Ltd, Mu Sigma and Micromax Informatics Ltd.

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Key deals in the quarter included the $20 million investment led by Everstone in salon chain firm YLG Salon & Spa, with participation from existing investor Helion Ventures ... Holdings invested $9 million in Sequoia Capital-backed online apparel brand ...

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Company founder C.K. Kumaravel said his adviser Ernst and Young is in talks with private equity funds Carlyle Group, Sequoia Capital, Motilal Oswal Private ... While an email sent to Carlyle India Advisors Pvt. Ltd’s managing director M.

New Delhi: Matrix Partners India, the Mumbai-based early-to-growth stage venture ... deals worth about $20 million last year — leading investors such as Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, who earlier played primarily in the post Series A stages ...

Consolidation is a topic of debate. “There is a bit of introspection going on,” said Mohanjit Jolly, managing director of VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) India. He added that issues such as lack of time and shortage of talent required to create a ...

Mumbai: Venture capital investors Sequoia Capital and SAP Ventures invested Rs 327 crore in Mumbai-based listings provider Just Dial Ltd, the largest investment by VCs in any Indian company till date. This is the fifth time that Just Dial has raised money since its inception in 1996. Sequoia has invested Rs 305 crore in the latest round while SAP Ventures put in Rs 22 crore. This is Sequoia Capital’s third investment in Just Dial. In August last year, Just Dial filed its draft red herring prospe

Existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Nexus Venture Partners, Helion Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank have also participated in the round. The Redwood City-headquartered company had last raised a $7.5 million Series C round of funding in April 2010.

India Quotient (IQ), his new venture capital firm ... going on to back a series of startups including Faasos and Inkfruit, which are now backed by Sequoia Capital and SAIF Partners respectively. Apart from Lunia, the IQ team consists of Madhukar Sinha ...

Revenue generated from Bookmyshow.com is accounted under Web18, the Internet and mobile arm of Network18. “Bookmyshow.com continued on a strong growth trajectory during the year and is now a profitable operation,” according to Network18’s 9 April ...

Mohammed Aleemuddin/Mint SKS, backed by Sequoia Capital, forecasts relief from a Bill approved by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s cabinet last week that would enable the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to regulate the industry. SKS has reported five ...

Nor will it affect investment activity. Abhay Pandey, managing director at Sequoia Capital India, said people don’t see currency fluctuation as a criterion for decision-making, so deals will not get impacted. “Overall, 2-3% depreciation has been a ...

Sequoia Capital has invested in a number of healthcare companies in India, including in Vasan Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, Paras Pharmaceuticals Ltd (acquired by Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc), and Glocal Healthcare Systems Pvt. Ltd. The Moolchand funding is the ...

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Mumbai/Bangalore: Private-equity funds including Carlyle Group and Sequoia Capital are in separate talks to invest about $40 million to $50 million in JSM Corp, which operates the Indian franchises of Hard Rock Cafe and California Pizza Kitchen, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. JSM Corp, which runs 12 outlets across different brands, is looking to raise capital to expand its networks and operations, said the sources, who declined to be named as the discussions are not yet public. P

Mumbai: Early stage investment fund Kae Capital has raised money from a cluster of venture capital (VC) firms for its maiden fund, the first instance of VCs taking long-term exposure to a small fund. Marquee investors Sequoia Capital, SAIF Partners, Omidyar Network and a fourth that didn’t want to be be identified have contributed about one-fifth to the $25 million (Rs127.25 crore) raised by Kae, which was formed by Sasha Mirchandani, co-founder of Mumbai Angels, India’s second-largest angel inv

Ltd), the largest luxury retailer in India. “There was a lot of scepticism in the industry on how this market would pan out.” With investors buying into the luxury consumption story, Kapoor has attracted three rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital ...

According to the report, several private equity and global investment firms are in the race to buy the company. Sequoia Capital India, Baring Private Equity Partners India and another institutional investor are buying a 4% stake in Manappuram Finance for ...

The investment will help Chennai-based Vasan expand across India as well as fund acquisitions ... With a minority stake whose size was not disclosed, GIC joins Sequoia Capital and Westbridge Capital as an investor in the healthcare firm.

Private equity fund Sequoia Capital has, over the last five years in India, invested a billion dollars in 60 different companies, in sectors ranging from e-commerce to fast food. We spoke to managing director Abhay Pandey on what funds look for in investors. Edited excerpts from the interview: What do you look for when you invest in a business ? •The company should be addressing a large market; there should be something that has the potential to be very big. • A unique product or service . • Sin

Mumbai: Eight-year-old Bangalore-based analytics firm Manthan Systems Pvt. Ltd has raised $15 million from investment firm Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) in the third round of funding, underscoring the expansion of the business intelligence and analytics business worldwide and out of India. Manthan, with products like retail analytics solution ARC, targets the retail and consumer packaged-goods segments, providing clients with information about customers and suppliers to help them improve promot