Oct’16 saw a jump in amount invested in VC/PE deals in India. Reported deal amount was USD1450m, making October only the second month in 2016 with billion dollar plus investment. This amount was invested over 34 transactions, another 38 chose not to disclose invested amount.
Deal count for the month was 72, taking ytd deal count to 690, 3% down over ytd 2015. The difference in invested amount is much sharper. Cumulative investment in ytd 2016 is USD 7.8B, 35% less over the USD12B which was reported in the same period in 2015.
Reported investment was boosted by 3 large deals. The top one was a USD1B transaction in real estate, where Brookfield Asset Management picked up a folio of commercial and retail properties from Mumbai’s Hiranandani Developers. TVS Logistics attracted USD155m of investment from Canada’s CPDQ, while garment maker Arvind Brands took in USD110m from domestic PE firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management.