A graphical summary of seed stage and series A stage investments that happened in 2011.

1. Verdure Venture Consulting
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Early Stage Deals and
Investments in 2011
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2. 2011 Investments in a summary
• Total Early stage capital invested in 2011
– USD 104 Million
• Average ticket Size
– Seed Stage - USD 0.2 Million ( INR 1.1 Cr)
– Series A – USD 3.6 Million (INR 17.8 Cr)
• Most popular sectors (by no. of investments)
– E commerce – 12 deals
– IT Services – 7 deals
• Largest Deal
– USD 40 Million into Happiest Minds
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3. Sector wise deals – Seed Stage
Ecommerce and Education saw the highest action, although CleanTech
received the highest amount of funding (1 deal) in Seed Stage
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4. Sector wise deals – Series A
80% of the series A deals were focused on IT services
and Ecommerce sectors
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5. Total Early stage deals in 2011
IT Services emerged the highest invested sector riding
on the Happiest Minds deal with Canaan partners
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6. Quarter wise Early stage deals
Q3 remained the quarter of highest activity in no of
deals as well as amount invested peaking
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7. Conclusion
• Cleantech emerged as the surprise winner by
attracting the highest amount of investment in seed
stage. Although this was due to 1 large investment
into Greywater Technologies by Nexus Venture
Partners (link to deal)
• Happiest Minds and the Ecommerce frenzy
accounted for a large portion of investments
• Although Technology startups remained the highest
invested in 2012, Agri, HealthCare, Media and
Financials Services have also seen some action
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8. For more details contact
Saiswaroopa@verdure.in
Usha.Krishnan@verdure.in
Report compiled from articles reported by Yourstory.in, vccircle.com,
medianama.com & pluggd.in
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