31 January 2008

VC, PE updates,Jobs from VCCircle.com, Indiape.com

VCCircle.com


Market Crash Forces Wockhardt, Emaar MGF To Slash IPO Prices
Exclusive: E*Trade To Sell Its Stake In IL&FS InvestSmart; Carlyle, TPG In Race
Tata Chemicals Buys US-Based General Chemical For $1 Billion
Kubera Partners Invests $10 Million In GSS America; To List In India Soon

NEA-IndoUS Ventures Invests $2.5 Million In VAS Company Bay Talkitec
FDI Changes: Commodity Exchanges Gets 49%; MRO, Flying Training 100%
250-Year Old Cox & Kings To Raise Rs 370 Crore From IPO

UTI AMC To Make Pre-IPO Placement To International Investors
CDC Commits Close To $1 Billion To Actis’ Emerging Markets Infra Fund
Mumbai Angels-Backed Reverse Auction Travel Site AtYourPrice.in Launches
OnMobile Global IPO Sold 21 Times Thanks To Institutions

HDFC To List Mutual Fund Arm By Year-End; Gets Rs 235 Cr From General Insurance Stake Sale
A Cautious RBI Keeps Rates Unchanged; Chidambaram Endorses View
Kotak Mahindra To Acquire 51% Stake In Ahmedabad Commodity Exchange
“We Need External Capital And Can Sell Upto 26%:” Intex’s Vaswani

“We Need External Capital And Can Sell Upto 26%:” Intex’s Vaswani
ICICI Venture Invests $24 Million In Mysore’s Vikram Hospital
PTC To Float $1 Billion Fund To Acquire Coal Assets Overseas
John Doerr Tops The Midas List; Ravi Adusumalli Debuts At 77

ICG Q Invests In Prime Securities; SMC-Millennium Deal Through
IIT Bombay To Organise Entrepreneurship Summit 2008
Elbee Gets Rs 25 Crore From Clearstone, Jhunjhunwala; Lines Up Rs 200 Cr Expansion
AV Birla Group Makes Its Debut PE Deal; Buys Stake in Core Projects

WPP Acquires Roshan Abbas’s Event Management Company Encompass
GVFL Invests $1M In IIM A Startup vMukta; $625K In Biotech Firm
Tata Capital To Invest In Quickjet Cargo; Many Others Plan Air Cargo Biz
BL Kashyap’s Real Estate Arm To Raise Rs 250 Crore Via PE Route

Abu Dhabi Plans To Become Cleantech/Solar Hub; Commits $15-Billion
US Asset Manager BlackRock Buys Merrill’s 40% Stake In India Fund Unit
Heineken To Own 37.5% Stake In UB Following S&N Sell-off
Why Patni Promoters Are Buying Back Shares; Is A PE Deal Coming?

Goldman Eyes Investments In TVS Logistics, Real Estate Firm Century Group
PE-Backed INX Media Loses Key Executive Vir Sanghvi
Singapore PE Firm Mercatus Capital Eyeing Indian Opportunities
Pyramid Samira Acquires UK Gaming Company Aurona Technologies

Mumbai Construction Subcontractor Futura Raises $10 Million From US Fund
Kotak PMS’ Gems Fund To Dedicate 30% Of Corpus For Private Placements
ICICI Venture To Start Raising $3 Billion Infrastructure Fund Soon
News Analysis: Will Market Crash Affect Private Equity Activity?

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IndiaPE.com



Frontline Ventures invested $40 million in Futura Infraprojects
Goose Tech to raise $2mn VC funding
Bharti Airtel to dilute stake in tower biz

Kubera fund invests $10 mn in GSS America
Trikona Trinity plans disposal of Dynamix Balwas Hospitality
VC firms invest over $540 million in India during 2007

Unitech to sell up to 50% stake to telecom ally
Ranbaxy, DRL, Lupin in race for 53% stake in Romanian pharma co
UTI AMC to sell 10-12% for $200 mn

Private equity funding to touch $48 bn by 2010: Assocham
IOT picks up 81% in Awesha Comtech
JWT acquires majority stake in Encompass

Trikona Announces SEZ Approval for 76-Acre Mixed-Use Development
Foreign funds plns to invest Rs 56.9 cr in Prime Securities
IQMS to acquire 51 pc stake in Object Xperts of US



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