Nov’16 again saw poor activity in VC/PE deals in India. Reported deal amount was just USD392m, the second lowest in 2016. This amount was invested over 35 transactions, another 31 chose not to disclose invested amount.
Deal count for the month was 66, taking ytd deal count to 756, 5% down over ytd 2015. The difference in invested amount is much sharper. Cumulative investment in ytd 2016 is USD 8.2B, 38% less over the USD13.3B which was reported in the same period in 2015.
There were very few large deals, only 6 deals reported investments of over USD20m. The largest investment was a USD 75m investment by General Atlantic in IPO-bound housing finance company PNB Housing. In effect, it was a pre-IPO deal. BFSI sector saw 3 other large deals.