Flashback 2025: Key trends that shaped real estate sector this year
India’s real estate market continued its stellar run in calendar year 2025, with total institutional capital inflows touching about $10.4 billion across 77 transactions, a 17% increase from 2024, which saw investments of roughly $8.9 billion, according to a report by real estate consultancy JLL. Capital inflows have steadily risen since ......
Hyderabad-based Pinnacle Blooms in talks with PE players for funding
Bharath Healthcare Laboratories Pvt Ltd, which operates pediatric-therapy platform Pinnacle Blooms Network, is in talks with multiple investors, including private equity (PE) firms, to raise as much as $70 million (Rs 630 crore) to scale its presence and spruce up its technology stack. The Hyderabad-based company, which offers integrated therapy services ......
Investcorp-backed NDR InvIT eyes new markets, takeover opportunities for expansion
Investcorp-backed privately listed NDR InvIT Trust, which is currently present across 16 cities in the country, aims to take this number up significantly in the next five years, a top company executive told VCCircle. The trust, which is a perpetual warehousing and industrial parks InvIT, is currently present in 16 cities ......
Avataar Ventures, Filter Capital change tack to monetise technology bet
Venture capital firm Avataar Venture Partners and growth-stage investor Filter Capital have changed their plans to monetise their bets on an Indian software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that is also backed by a bunch of other alternative investment firms. Avataar Venture, a tech-focused VC firm floated by former executives of Norwest Venture Partners and Freshworks ......
Top lawyer, former tax sleuth join list of India’s highest-paid independent directors
A top lawyer, a technology industry veteran, and a former bureaucrat who headed India’s tax and anti-corruption agencies have joined the list of the country’s highest-paid independent directors, according to a VCCircle analysis. The analysis of publicly listed companies to identify the top-paid independent directors during the year through March 2025 ......
Grapevine: KreditBee, Oaktree Capital, LG, Oyo, Simpl in news
Digital lending startup KreditBee is raising a pre-IPO round, LG India is set to file its IPO soon, and Oyo’s IPO may raise up to $800 million (around Rs 7,093 crore). Meanwhile, Megha Engineering’s Krishna Reddy has secured fresh debt from Oaktree to buy out uncle PP Reddy’s stake, according ......
Co-living startup Truliv in talks to snag Series A cheque
Co-living startup Truliv, which recently secured funding from media group Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd (BCCL), is looking to raise a Series A round as the company plans to expand its presence in new and existing markets, a top company executive told VCCircle. The Chennai-headquartered startup, operated by Truliv Properties & ......
Grapevine: PAG , Apax Partners, Accion, Dream11, Neo in news
Private equity firms PAG and Apax are bidding for software maker Accion Labs, while Dream11 is shutting down real money gaming post Online Gaming Bill. Meanwhile, wealth and asset management firm Neo is raising Rs 162 crore (around $19 million), according to separate media reports. PAG, Apax Partners, Accion PE firms PAG and Apax Partners ......
Bottomline: Tirupati Group charts growth path from Kurukshetra to nutraceutical major
From running a small dispensary at a pediatric hospital in Kurukshetra to becoming one of India’s largest nutraceutical and sports nutrition manufacturers, the Goyal family-owned Tirupati Group has come a long way. And it isn’t done yet. The journey began when Dr Lokender Goyal ran a pediatric hospital in Haryana’s Kurukshetra, ......
PE-backed Kanakadurga Finance’s fundraising plan gathers pace, eyes bigger cheque
Kanakadurga Finance Ltd, a non-bank lender that counts mid-market private equity firm BanyanTree as an investor, is moving ahead with its plan to raise fresh capital and is now looking to pocket a bigger cheque than previously targeted, a top executive told VCCircle. “The fundraising plan is in the discussion stage ......















