Dr Agarwal’s parent gets more money from TPG and Temasek

Dr Agarwal’s Health Care Ltd (DAHCL) is the parent of Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital Ltd (DAEHL). DAEHL is the listed entity in which currently DAHCL owns 71.75%. DAEHL is into eye care and related businesses, majorly in Tamil Nadu. DAHCL whereas is into eye care hospitals, opticals, pharmacies and other related services across the country, … Read more

AI Can Outperform LPs at Picking Top Private Equity Funds, Study Finds

AI can pick private equity firms to back better than many investors, per an Oxford study. Researchers trained AI to read 400 prospectuses to predict the top-performing funds. However, lead researcher Ludovic Phalippou believes it should still only be used as a sounding board. Artificial intelligence can pick out top-performing private equity (PE) funds better than … Read more

Sequoia completely exits Go Fashion

Sequoia has sold it’s remaining 10.18% in Go Fashion (GF), marking a complete exit from a decade old investment. It had acquired 33.3% stake in GF in November 2014 for Rs 60 cr Over years, it has pared it’s stake in the following manner Pre IPO in November 2021, Sequoia held 28.73% stake in the … Read more

Blackstone completely exits out of Sona. Made enviable returns.

Funds affiliated with Blackstone were classified as promoters and held 20.50% in the Sona Comstar before this transaction. Blackstone has now sold off this final balance 20.5% @ Rs 410/ share aggregating to Rs 4,917 cr through open market bulk deals Buyers included Foreign Institutional Investors, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Domestic Mutual Funds and Insurance. companies. … Read more

SVB in talks to sell itself, as crisis triggers global banking rout

SVB Financial Group’s efforts to raise money have failed and the troubled bank was in talks to sell itself, CNBC reported on Friday, as a crisis at the tech-heavy lender rippled through global markets and hit banking stocks. Shares of SVB Financial Group were halted on Friday after tumbling 66% in premarket trading. SVB, which … Read more

Kauvery Hospitals receives $70 million investment from private equity fund managed by IIFL AMC

Dr. Manivannan (left) Founder and Managing Director and Dr. Chandrakumar, (right) Founder and Chairman of Kauvery Hospitals Group. Photo: Special Arrangement Chennai-based Kauvery Hospitals has raised equity funding of $70 million from private equity (PE) fund managed by IIFL Asset Management Limited for a minority stake. The investment holds significance in Kauvery Hospitals’ next phase … Read more

Tube raises Private Equity money in EV subsidiary

Electric Vehicles (EV) continues to attract investors’ attention. Now Tube Investments of India (TII) has announced fund raising in it’s wholly owned subsidiary, TI Clean Mobility Private Limited (TICMPL). TICMPL, a recent initiative of TII, is focused into manufacture and marketing of Electric Three Wheelers and through it’s subsidiaries into Electric Tractors and Electric Heavy … Read more

Private equity major exiting out of Shriram Finance

Apax Partners is rumoured to sell its entire stake in Shriram Finance through block deal in secondary market on January 13, 2023. Apax currently holds 4.63% stake in the Company. This is in lieu of the 16.73% that it held in Shriram City Union Finance (SCUF) as on September 30, 2022. Subsequently, SCUF had merged … Read more