India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) was established in 1999 with a focus on investing in and transforming mid-sized profitable businesses into world-class industry leaders, built on the strong foundation of IVFA Values. Steered since its inception by Vishal Nevatia, IVFA has built deep knowledge and skills in the Indian markets and has successfully launched five separate investment funds with a combined corpus of over US$ 1.8 billion. Currently, IVFA is investing out of IVF - V, which has a corpus of US$ 682 million.

IVFA follows either ‘Buy and Build' or ‘Invest and Build' business model. In ‘Buy and Build’, IVFA acquires majority equity stakes, partners with high quality management teams and entrepreneurs to build scale and profitability.  On the other hand, in ‘Invest and Build', IVFA acquires significant minority equity stakes and plays a supportive role to existing entrepreneurs in transforming businesses. Over 70% of all capital invested by IVFA till date is under Buy and Build model.

IVFA’s insights and understanding of India has been sharpened over the last 16 years by investing over US$ 1 billion in more than 40 Indian businesses. It has successfully guided these companies in making the transition into well established and large businesses that are valuable, enduring, socially responsible and are creating immense wealth for all stakeholders. Although sector agnostic, IVFA has built strong understanding of sectors like Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Logistics, Supply Chain & Retailing, Infrastructure Services, Education and Clean Energy.

The IVFA team has been structured with a balanced mix of 9 Investment and 16 Business Managers, who bring with them several hundred man-years of industry experience to achieve the above objective. 
IVFA truly values its relationships with investors, entrepreneurs and management teams. It is also very conscious of its fiduciary duty towards the capital under management. This capital has been contributed by over 35 high quality international institutions with a combined investible capital base of over US$ 1 trillion. For more information on IVFA, we request you to please visit http://www.ivfa.com.

Veda is a leading mid-market investment bank. Founded in 2004, Veda has closed over 45 Transactions, handled deals aggregating to over $800mn and expanded its presence to Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.             

Veda provides advisory services to companies and entrepreneurs in the areas of
  - Fund raising (venture capital/private equity & debt syndication)
  - Mergers & Acquisitions

What Differentiates Veda

  - Relationship Oriented Approach: The firm continued association as a trusted advisor to several clients, stands testimony to its approach to transactions
  - Diversity in Industry Coverage: Veda has concluded transactions in several domains, including IT/ITeS, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Agriculture, to name a few.
  - Wide Reach: Veda has successfully closed transactions with a wide range of investors and best in breed corporates. The firm has advised on several cross-border transactions, each resulting in strong local businesses partnering with large global players.

o3 Capital is a mid-market investment bank, providing financial and strategic advice to clients. The company is built on two core businesses – Corporate Finance and Alternate Asset Management.

o3 Capital serves a wide range of clients including cutting-edge start-ups, established market leaders, private equity houses and large global corporate entities, across select verticals - Consumer, Healthcare, Industrials, Financial services, Technology and Digital. o3 Capital has successfully consummated 110+transactions in the last 9 years aggregating to over USD 4.5 bn in transaction value.

Axis Bank was the first of the new private banks to have begun operations in 1994, after the Government of India allowed new private banks to be established. The Bank was promoted jointly by the Administrator of the specified undertaking of the Unit Trust of India (UTI - I), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) and other four PSU insurance companies, i.e. National Insurance Company Ltd., The New India Assurance Company Ltd., The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd. and United India Insurance Company Ltd.

The Bank today is capitalized to the extent of Rs. 401.95 crores with the public holding (other than promoters) at 53.23%.

The Bank's Registered Office is at Ahmedabad and its Central Office is located at Mumbai. The Bank has a very wide network of more than 905 branches and Extension Counters (as on 30th September 2009). The Bank has a network of over 3894 ATMs (as on 30th September 2009) providing 24 hrs a day banking convenience to its customers. This is one of the largest ATM networks in the country.

The Bank has strengths in both retail and corporate banking and is committed to adopting the best industry practices internationally in order to achieve excellence.

UTI Ventures is a leading Indian private equity firm. Focused on growth capital, they propel the ambitions of passionate Indian entrepreneurs, while unlocking superior returns for their investors. Their demonstrated track record of successful investments, led by an experienced management team, positions their funds among top performers in India.

Their influential and proprietary network of corporates, business leaders and capital market participants provides them access to quality deals and enables them to conclude investments in a highly competitive environment. It also facilitates successful liquidity events for their portfolio companies. Theirs is a proactive team with unmatched local insight. With over 75 years of collective experience in Indian capital markets, the skill sets of each team member are both diverse and complimentary. Their knowledge of domestic regulatory frameworks and cultural sensitivities gives them a distinctive edge among private equity firms in India.

UTI Ventures follows an entrepreneur-centric investment approach. They actively seek out promising Indian companies driven by visionary leadership. Their constant endeavour is to complement the strengths of the teams they back. Placing complete confidence in the ability of their partner entrepreneurs to build and manage their companies, they play an active role in scaling the enterprise.