May 8, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
VC Circle 7 May 2013 In its roadmap for Asia, Accion has listed several plans for India where more impact investments and micro-credit standardisation programmes are expected. Global social investor Accion has announced a set of five initial investments by Venture...
May 8, 2013 | India, News, North America, South & Central Asia
VC Circle 8 May 2013 Azim Premji-led Wipro Ltd, India’s third largest software services provider, has signed an agreement to enter into a strategic partnership with Opera Solutions LLC, a privately held and New Jersey-headquartered Big Data analytics firm. Wipro will...
May 8, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Live Mint 8 May 2013 The company will reduce its current 80.3% ownership stake in OFSS to 75% as required by the market regulator Mumbai: Oracle Corp. on Wednesday said it will reduce its current 80.3% ownership stake in Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd (OFSS)...
May 2, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
VC Circle 1 May 2013 Voylla.com, a jewelry and accessory e-tailer owned by Bangalore-based Voylla Retail Pvt Ltd, has raised Rs 2.5 crore in funding from Pune-based Snow Leopard Technology Ventures, a venture fund that provides seed capital to internet and technology...
May 2, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
MUMBAI, May 2 (Reuters) – Tata Capital, part of steel-to-software conglomerate Tata Group, has raised $600 million for a private equity fund to invest in India, in what could be one of the largest debuts by a private equity fund targeting India. Institutional...
May 2, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
MUMBAI, April 30 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Baring Asia is in advanced talks with the Indian arm of French cement maker Lafarge SA to invest about $240 million for a minority stake, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday....