Private equity inflows jump 118% in H1 to $11.82 billion – Times of India

Mumbai: private equity investment Inflows from domestic firms doubled to $11.82 billion in the first half of 2021, when the entire world was under lockdown due to the first wave of the killer virus, show industry data.
Fund inflows grew more than 77 percent to $7.55 billion in the second quarter of 2021 compared to $4.26 billion in the first quarter, according to data gathered by the U.S. government. Refinitiv, Were London Stock Exchange GroupThe Financial Markets Data and Insights branch of.
However, volume growth was 8.8 per cent in 296 transactions in the second quarter, up from 272 in the first quarter to 568 as against 365 transactions in the year-ago period.
According to Refinitiv, total inflows were $5.43 billion across 365 deals in the first half of 2020, compared to $3.92 billion in 183 deals in the first quarter and $1.51 billion in 182 deals in the second quarter.
$34.96 billion flowed into 708 domestic companies throughout 2020, the highest on record, compared to only $15.31 billion in 2019, $11.2 billion in 2018, $11.9 billion (2017), $5.02 billion (2016), $8.2 billion (According to Refinitiv data, 2015), $5.99 billion (2014), $3.24 billion (2013), $3.87 billion (2012), $4.4 billion (2011) and $3.89 billion, in 2010.
The top ten deals for the first half of 2021 are: Think and Learn ($1.32 billion), Bundle Technologies ($800 million), Mohalla Tech ($502 million), sports technology ($355.6 million), Accelia Solutions ($350 million), BrainBiz Solutions ($315 million), Zomato ($302 million), Meesho Payments ($300 million), Pine Labs ($285 million), and DreamPlug Technologies ($272.11 million), according to Refinitiv.
More than 40 percent of total inflows were in the online space of $4.52 billion in H1, up from 73 percent in 210 deals (versus 149 yoy), followed by financials.
Investments in the online sector have grown by 73.2 percent, with the number of deals increasing from 149 in the first half of 2020 to 201 in the first half of 2021. Fund flows to software companies 261 percent, financial services 44 percent, medical health and consumer related companies 64 percent each.
However, there was a sharp decline in fund raising in the country during the period under review. Fundraising for Q2 stood at $684.49 million compared to $1.62 billion in Q1.

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