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We’re thrilled to announce the closure of our first late-stage equity continuum fund of ₹300 crore! This strategic fund is set to support 6-7 companies poised for an IPO in the next 2-4 years which we've tracked closely for the past five years, including Milky Mist Dairy, Ummeed Housing Finance Pvt. Ltd., and The Ayurveda Experience. With this move, our total assets under management now exceed ₹3,000 crore.     Ashvin Chadha, our Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Anicut Capital, shared, "We’re focusing on companies poised for IPOs in the next 2-3 years, ensuring we’re well-positioned for these promising exits." in an interview with Jude Sannith, Assistant Editor, CNBC-TV18. This fund underscores our commitment to sectors like financial services and consumer products, even as we navigate the evolving investment landscape.  I A S BALAMURUGAN | Ajay Anand | Dhruv Kapoor | Veenu Mittal | Venkatesh Parthasarathy | Kunal Davey | Supreetha M | Arun Thathachari | Dhruv Ranjan | Ankita Poddar | Adithya Bharadwaj | Arushi Maheshwari | Pranav Visvesh | Samarth D. https://lnkd.in/d8Qp5EVE   #AnicutCapital #AnicutContinuumFund

Investment Firm Oister Global is going to launch a 440 Cr Fund targeted to invest in consumption and sunrise sector of India. In the next 2 years they are going to invest 4500 cr in early stage, growth stage and late stage private equity. Oister Global who have already invested in VC funds like Blume Ventures and Stride Ventures is also goind to launch a credit Fund in next quarter

Mayank Lakdawala, Junior Analyst at DHOLAKIA VENTURES shares his thoughts on Class 10 Pitch Day. If you have a moonshot idea, apply now to Class 11 at www.100x.vc/class11 Sanjay Ninad Yagnesh Shashank Vatsal Utpal Shobana Sejal Harshita Prakruti #Class10PitchDay #InvestorInsights #VentureCapital #vc #familyoffices #investors #angelinvestors #funding #demoday #pitchday

As much as I like seeing University of Michigan Alum Atul Rustgi on the The Wall Street Journal, there is also no doubt that Washington DC-based Accolade Partners have built one of the most successful fund of funds platforms in private markets which is admired by LPs and fund managers alike, and as a result, raisimg a total of more than $1 billion to invest in venture capital and growth equity funds. Accolade Partners closed its Accolade Partners Growth III LP, which is dedicated to growth funds only, at $400 million, and Accolade Partners Venture I LP, specifically for venture, at $131 million in December. It also closed on $505 million in May for Accolade Partners IX LP, which will invest in both venture and growth funds. This is in addition to the firm’s $325 million pool for women- and minority-led funds that it also raised last year. Congratulations and see you in DC soon! #fundraising #growthcapital #venturecapital #alternativeinvestments #privatemarkets #washingtondc #institutionalinvestors #allocators #capitalmarkets #fundoffunds https://lnkd.in/gxJHzjSr

Take a closer look at Sanari Capital's investment focus... What we do, where we play, who we partner with, and how we grow businesses. #PrivateEquity #GrowthInvesting

A lot of money has been raised in the last 5 years and what happened to these massive amounts of new venture firms? Here is Keith's answer which a lot of people won’t like 👇 “I think they all failed. There is a trend of emerging managers and solo GPs. I personally invested in 20-30 new funds, and maybe 2 are good funds”. #venturecapital #emergingmanagers #startupinvesting

🌱 Funding News: Tenacious Ventures Lives Up To Its Name With $18m Raise In Hard Market Agriculture technology-focused venture capital firm Tenacious Ventures hit $18 million for its second fund, after overcoming multiple delays and scaling back its cash-raising goal to win the backing of several high-profile investors. ℹ️ Full article from Financial Review linked in comments. #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #investing #agtech #agrifoodtech #investment

#SaothairCapitalPartners, a private equity investment firm based in #Pennsylvania, secures $125 million for its first fund. A group of limited partners, comprising of single- and multi-family offices, outsourced CIOs, and college and university #endowments, made capital commitments to the firm. With regard to the fundraising, Saothair's exclusive placement agency was Pacenote Capital LLC. Saothair Capital Partners, a private #investment firm led by co-founders Kevin Madden and Richard Lozyniak, specialised only in making investments in lower middle market #manufacturing and industrial companies that have encountered operational or financial difficulties. It invests in companies that are in charge of controlling equity in a variety of industries, such as paper and packaging, #plastics, metals processing, building materials, #automotive or heavy vehicle, healthcare products, food and beverage, and other specialised manufacturing. Saothair Capital Partners Pacenote Capital Kevin Madden Richard Lozyniak #saothaircapitalpartner #funding #startup

📢 New Fund Alert: Our CEO unveils ambitious plans for $575 Million Fundraising Initiative in the Food and Agri space! 🌱 Fueling Growth: With a focus on nurturing companies from early to late stages in the Food and Agri space, Prowess is targeting to raise $75 million and $500 million across the Private Debt fund and Private Equity fund respectively. 🚀 Rationale: Food and Agri sectors are largely undervalued and undernourished in terms of capital, the deployment of which tends to be quite skewed at times. Thus, we believe there is ample opportunity especially in the Agri infrastructure sector, such as cold chain, warehousing, micro-irrigation, mechanization, and food packaging. 📈 Strategic Milestones: We already initiated regulatory filings, with plans to launch the debt fund in Q2 FY2024. This monumental endeavor marks a significant step towards fostering innovation, driving economic prosperity, and forging a path toward a brighter, more sustainable future in Food and Agri. Stay tuned as Prowess charts the course for transformative growth and impact! 🌟 #privatedebt #privateequity #investing #foodandagri #Agribusiness #fundraising

VC Enhances portfolio returns For many years private equity was seen as one of the smartest divesification strategies away from listed equities, bonds, and liquid alternatives. One of the principal reasons for private equitie's outsized returns was that investors typically had to give up liquidity with 7 year lockups (or something around that number) Private equity has run into several problems, foremost amongst them is too much cash chasing too few returns, the 2nd big problem is that private equity investors used increasing levels of leverage in order to purchase the companies, while paying themselves dividends no matter what... just look at what happened to Thames water. The 3rd and most recent problem is rising interest rates which has of course not only impacted borrowing costs but has impacted the companies themselves with higher required IRR's in order to offset increased costs both for input prices as well as funding. The area that is now becoming very attractive and that investors should pay attention to is earlier stage venture capital. Venture capital is usually 1 of the 1st rounds of funding for a company that is still growing, requires capital to actually begin to deliver results, and a much more binary investment with some of the comapnies failing, some of them doing nothing, and if you're lucky a few doing very well. *The difficulties therefore venture-capital portfolios include: * assessing the risks * doing due diligence * building a sufficiently large portfolio so that the winners compensate you for the losers * maintaining contact with and understanding what the company is doing * avoiding dilution if you don't follow your initial capital with more capital your ownership percentage will reduce * diversification.. i.e. diversified across different industries What I'm pointing out is you can have some significant outsized winners if you invest early and stay on top of your investment. This article points out that seasoned venture-capital firms with a strong track record of identifying winners stands a much better chance of raising capital than the start ups and some of the smaller funds who can't achieve diversification or don't have a pipeline of good deals. But the take away from this article is that venture-capital is very attractive in the current market environment, and that it should form part of your portfolio albeit a potentially small percentage 5-10% but can represent a very important part of your portfolio in terms of total compensation if you get it right Happy to discuss in more detail, welcome your thoughts... #Venturecapital #vc #privateequity #equity #investments #markets #portfolio #SiliconValley #investing