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.

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2. 72 deals reported in Oct’16, slight improvement from recent trend
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5. Most sectors other than internet doing well in deal count
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 Healthcare, Education, Media, BFSI sectors see good trend in deal count
Deal Count Oct'16 Oct'15 ytd2016 ytd2015 2015
Internet 17 29 170 234 283
IT/ITES 6 8 67 92 111
Healthcare 8 4 89 43 51
Media & Entertainment 3 2 44 31 49
BFSI 8 11 60 53 63
Real Estate SPVs 5 4 39 45 54
Education 1 5 46 34 46
Food & Beverages 7 6 34 45 50
Others 17 15 140 132 174
Amount (USD M) Oct'16 Oct'15 ytd2016 ytd2015 2015
Internet 24 142 979 2513 2761
IT/ITES 11 141 994 907 1085
Healthcare 39 11 604 724 778
Media & Entertainment 25 0 121 275 369
BFSI 17 209 918 1915 2296
Real Estate SPVs 1000 6 1660 2164 2285
Education 0 13 154 64 109
Food & Beverages 43 91 255 256 307
Others 292 640 2033 3183 3943

6. Top 10 transactions reported in Oct’16
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 3 mega deals lift up overall numbers
 2 big transactions in logistics, 5 total transactions in this sector in Oct’16
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Hiranandani Developers Brookfield Asset Management 1000 Real Estate
TVS Logistics Services CPDQ 155 Logistics
Arvind Ltd Multiples Alternate Asset Management 110 Textiles
Rubicon Research Everstone Group 33 Pharma/Healthcare
Ver Se’ Innovation (DailyHunt) ByteDance 25 Media & Entertainment
Redington (India) Ltd Standard Chartered Private Equity 23 Logistics
Dairy Classic Ice Cream Motilal Oswal Private Equity Investment 16 Food & Beverage
Furlenco Lightbox Ventures, Axis Capital Partners 15 Internet
Ganesh Grains MOPE Investment Advisors 15 Food & Beverage
Netscribes India Pvt. Ltd Helix Investments 8 IT/ITES

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