Growth Capital Venture Space in India Getting Overcrowded


Bangalore: Venture Capitalists are the new super heroes of the twenty first century. These men bring in money to businesses and ensure that they are benefited with their investment, like the company itself. India is considered to be one of the largest and biggest venture capital industry in the world.

It touched the $1.5 billion mark in 2011 in contrast to over $20 billion worth investment in America, per year. Until June 2012, India received $363 million in funding; the graphs have dropped down as compared to 2011, wherein the same time period capitalists had covered over 103 deals worth $520 million. This analysis is based on a statistics compiled by Ernst and Young, as reported by minyanville.com.

The report carefully pulls up all details from past investment and points put that atleast $6.5 billion worth deals have been ventured in India. It also mentions that Bangalore remains the hot bed for venture capitalist investments. Most of the investments in India are routed towards mid and later stage startups.

The World Bank’s survey – “Doing Business” reports that India is one of the toughest places to launch a business; it ranks 168 of 183 in ease of starting a business.