Beena Parmar
Infrastructure
Actis buys Welspun's six road projects for $775 mn
UK’s global investor Actis has acquired a portfolio of six operating highway toll road projects in India from Welspun Enterprises ......
Finance
Bain's Special Situations Fund to pivot from distressed to growth
Bain Capital’s $2 billion special situations Asia fund (SSA) II will restratergize India plans moving away from distressed asset investments ......
People
Physics Wallah Founder's acting passion makes edtech firm unicorn
Alakh Pandey, founder of unicorn Physics Wallah, is on a mission to reform edtech with what he calls a “baniya ......
TMT
PhysicsWallah joins unicorn club with $100 mn maiden fundraise
PhysicsWallah, an edtech platform for engineering and medical entrance exams, has raised $100 million (around Rs 777 crore) in its ......
Finance
Bain Capital Special Situations Asia Fund II raises over $2 bn
Global private equity company Bain Capital on Tuesday announced the closing of its second Asia-Pacific special situations fund – Bain Capital Special Situations Asia Fund II (SSA II) - doubling the ......
Finance
Nippon to raise up to Rs 3,000 cr in multiple alternative investment funds
Japan investor-backed Nippon India Alternative Investments, a subsidiary of Nippon Life India Asset Management (NIAM), is set to raise around ......
Finance
Slice backer seed firm 8i Ventures hopes to mint two more unicorns
A single unicorn-backer early-stage investor 8i Ventures’ founding partner Vikram Chachra hopes to mint at least two more unicorns in ......
Infrastructure
Blackstone ARC defaults on resolution plan for road asset, could face action
Blackstone-backed International Asset Reconstruction Company (IARC) has opted out of its resolution plan for a southern stressed toll road asset, ......
TMT
Edtech churn disrupts online teaching, brings tutors back to classroom
Ranjita L, a mathematics teacher at St Mary’s Convent School in Ghaziabad, is back in the classroom – the chalk-and-blackboard ......
Infrastructure
Delhivery will be harder to build today than 10 years ago: CEO
Recently-listed Delhivery Ltd, a technology-based logistics firm, would have been harder to build today than ten years ago when it ......
