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India Life Sciences Fund II
India Life Sciences Fund II is a Private Equity fund that provides growth capital to established companies in pharma, healthcare, and medtech industries in India. Examples of funds usage include capacity expansion, introduction of new products, acquisitions, etc. The typical investment size is in the range of USD 5 - 25 million over the life of the investment for a significant minority stake.
Fund I made 8 investments during the period 2007-12 including a specialty generic injectables company with US FDA approved manufacturing facilities; a US FDA approved manufacturer of specialized medicines for treating Central Nervous System disorders; India's largest producer of Vitamin D3; India's largest network of cancer hospitals, and one of India's Top 3 private ophthalmology networks.
InvAscent team members have deep domain expertise and track record of value creation in pharma and healthcare industries. The team is closely involved in assisting portfolio companies execute against their business plans.
For more information, please contact:
Director, Investments
tp.devarajan@invascent.com
Telph: +91 40 2354 1305
India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA)
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.
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Indian School Finance Company
“Indian School Finance Company Private Limited (ISFC), is a Non-Banking Finance Company engaged in the business of extending loans to Educational Institutions and Entrepreneurs managing such institutions for their infrastructural requirement. ISFC is a niche NBFC focusing exclusively on education sector for building its book.
Currently, ISFC caters to private Unaided Schools, vocational colleges, coaching and tuition centres, goods and service providers to such institutions. Since inception in 2009, the company has disbursed more than 1400 loans across 11 states of the country through its network of branches and is planning to grow its base rapidly in other states as well. Primary target segment of the company is affordable private schools however the company has also started extending loans to mid segment schools and institutions. Over last five years the company has earned itself a good reputation in the education industry.”
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IndiaVenture Advisors
IndiaVenture Advisors is a private equity firm jointly sponsored by the Ajay Piramal group and Mr. A K Purwar, former chairman of State Bank of India. The first Fund promoted by IndiaVenture is a Rs 400 crore healthcare and life sciences focused fund, with a 75% corpus dedicated to the segment. The Fund is targeting to invest across Healthcare and Life Sciences domain including Hospitals, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies, Medical Devices, Retail Pharmacies etc. The Investment strategy of the Fund is focused on investing in growth stage companies. The Fund intends to support entrepreneurs with innovative and highly scalable business models and plans to add value through its deep domain knowledge and relationships in the sector. The investment team has diverse backgrounds in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector as well as in Financial Services industry.