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Angel investors are looking before they leap as exits get tougher

The term 'angel investor' refers to anyone who invests his or her money in an entrepreneurial company (unlike institutional venture capitalists (VCs), where this is investing of other people's money).

Sidbi's new venture capital fund to back late-stage start-ups

Has made 52 exits from 117 bets across 7 funds

Bengaluru-based Instamojo closes series B funding round at Rs 50 crore

Instamojo now works with and enables over 600,000 MSMEs to build, manage and grow their business

AION Capital acquires InterGlobe Technologies to boost service expansion

AION expects to support InterGlobe Utsav in its next phase of growth as the company focuses on accelerating service expansion

The discount warriors: How online pharmacies are disrupting the trade

The offline chemists are trying to fight back by extending 10 per cent discounts to customers, which only bigger chemists near hospitals used to offer

Investors look for next winners in SaaS, line up with millions of dollars

SaaS is one of the ways of selling enterprise products, where companies charge customers a monthly subscription rate based on annual contracts for software hosted on the cloud

Seed-stage investor SRI Capital announces $100 mn US-India VC fund

Makes first close at $40 mn; firm is raising its maiden $100 mn early-stage VC fund focused on tech opportunities in US and India

Capital efficiency, entrepreneur first will remain key tenets: Parag Dhol

Inventus Capital MD Parag Dhol tells how many entrepreneurs whom it had backed earlier are investing in the fund

Stressed funds attractive idea for yield-seeking investors: Nitin Jain

'We do not see this as a one-time tactical opportunity but think of this as a structural opportunity,' he said of the ARC business

Sequoia Capital, others open $15-mn tap for Drip Capital's trade financing

The company has also raised an undisclosed amount in debt from the US-based Silicon Valley Bank

Sebi's relaxed norms for angel funds may not spur investments

However, angel funds can work for passive investors

Fireside Ventures raises $52 mn in debut fund, to invest in consumer brand

There has been a secular shift in the consumer buying behaviour, Fireside said in a statement

DFIs make way for pensions as PE investors

PE funds from the 2006-08 vintage have under performed as they invested at high valuations

IFC betting big on affordable housing in India: Mengistu Alemayehu

International Finance Corporation to create systemic impact, new asset class in quick time: Alemayehu

Budget 2018: India's start-ups hope for a reprieve from angel tax

Start-ups raising money from angels often do so based on an idea and its potential

Analjit Singh raising money for his private hospitality ventures overseas

Singh also acquired properties in Lake District of South Africa, Florence in Italy and London

Start-up investors are doing fewer deals

But they are writing bigger cheques

Kings Learning raises $2.5 mn from Dell Foundation, others

Enguru, Kings Learning's spoken English app, allows users to learn English in 28 languages

TPG Growth, Havells Group family invest in footwear brand Campus

Firm claims to be India's largest casual sports & footwear brand

Sistema Asia Fund to increase corpus, rope in other limited partners

This will allow the fund to cut bigger cheques for Series-B deals