Top VC firms of H1 2019; TVS Capital, A91 Partners in fund news; Carlyle exits longest India investment; Accel, QIA, Tencent, Warburg, SAIF, Tiger Global make startup bets

[] Saturday, July 13, 2019 [VCCircle]( [twitter]( [linkedin]( [facebook]( [you tube]( [VCCircle Premium]( [Sign Up Today]( venture capital [How the pecking order of India's most active VC firms is changing]( Sequoia Capital India maintained its lead as the most active venture capital firm in the first half of the year and bucked the larger industry... PRIVATE EQUITY [Exclusive: Affirma strikes first new India deal after MBO by StanChart PE execs]( [Mid-market private equity firm Amicus Capital makes third bet]( [TVS Capital hits second close of new fund, to strengthen top management]( [Carlyle brings the curtains down on longest India bet]( [Temasek looks to step up India investment pace]( [Baring PE Asia ups open offer size for NIIT Technologies]( [IFC offers $150 mn in debt funding to RBL Bank]( [Qatar Investment Authority leads $150 mn funding in ed-tech unicorn Byju's]( [Greater Pacific Capital invests $100 mn in utility consultancy Enzen Global]( [Sovereign wealth funds shun Europe for Asia, emerging markets]( [Temasek returns outlook grim as portfolio growth slows]( venture capital [Accel India bets on construction materials marketplace]( [Venture Highway writes pre-Series A cheque to supply chain startup O4S]( [Online menswear firm Northmist gets new angel investors]( [Tiger Global leads $60 mn funding round in B2B marketplace Moglix]( [Warburg Pincus, SAIF Partners pump $65 mn more into Rivigo]( [Former Reliance Industries execs' VC fund invests in two B2B tech startups]( [Samsung VC arm forays into India, places bets across Indus OS, three others]( [Logistics platform Ezyhaul pockets $16 mn in Series B funding]( [Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal backs Masaba Gupta's fashion label]( [China's Fosun RZ Capital leads funding in social vernacular platform Headfone]( [Blume Ventures backs health-tech startup HealthAssure]( [Tencent joins Series B funding round of neo-banking startup NiYO]( [Former Sequoia execs' VC firm A91 Partners exceeds target corpus for debut fund]( [Former Tata Motors exec backs electric scooter startup BattRE]( [Careers360 founder Maheshwer Peri backs ed-tech startup Board Infinity]( m&a [KIMS Hospitals in advanced stage to buy PE-backed regional hospital chain]( [Religare to sell NBFC, housing finance unit to TCG; shares jump]( [Ascendas India Trust to acquire seventh warehouse in Mumbai]( [Zomato acquires non-profit food donation firm Feeding India]( [Walmart's tech arm acquihires Indian startups FloCare, BigTrade]( [VC-backed Milkbasket acquires e-grocer PSR Supply Chain]( [BASF to sell laundry-whiteners' business to Archroma]( [Fintech firm PayNearby acquires We Care to enter insurance broking sector]( People [ARA Law ropes in new co-head of PE-VC practice from K Law]( [Investec hires Lazard exec as corporate finance & ECM unit co-head in India]( [Exclusive: Motilal Oswal Home Finance's top exec set to quit firm]( [IndiGo founders' rift in the open as Gangwal turns to SEBI; shares slump]( [Former Argus Partners lawyers set up full-service law firm Saakshya Law]( Markets [Airtel Africa falls for second day after Nigeria listing]( [Sensex, Nifty close higher as Fed chief rekindles rate-cut hopes]( [India valuations expensive, favour China as Fed rate cut looms: HSBC]( [Airtel Africa drops 10% after $4.4 bn Nigeria listing]( [Govt aims to raise $2.18 bn by cutting stakes in 18 firms to 75%]( [Shapoorji Pallonji Group's solar engineering arm gets SEBI nod for IPO]( Q&A [AMP Capital's Sharat Goyal on India game plan and why it's looking for control deals]( AUDIO & VIDEO [What opportunities do co-living, co-working and other new realty segments offer?]( [How technology is reshaping the real estate sector]( Analysis [Fund Scan: Warburg Pincus and the art of alliances]( [Why the perceived slowdown in India's consumer demand is not as bad as it seems]( [Raising public float: Why $50 bn of share sales may be a blessing in disguise for India]( [Why a large number of firms are collapsing in insolvency tribunals]( others [FirstRand Bank India to expand team, add mezzanine debt vertical]( [Three things aspiring entrepreneurs must evaluate before starting up]( [Grapevine: InterGlobe looks to buy Burger King India; 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