Indian Funding, M&A deals of the fortnight [26th Dec 2011 – 1st Jan 2012]

We are slightly late in bringing you this week’s funding report – However, very less funding activity was registered in the last week of 2011. Lets take a look at the funding deals that happened in the week starting December 26^th 2011.

Funding, M&A Deals of the Week [Dec 26^th 2011 to Jan 1^st 2012]

Funded Company / Acquired Company	Deal Type	Who Funded /                          Who Acquired	Funding Amount	Remarks
Polymeric Sensors	Private Equity	Viva Capital	Not Disclosed	for general expansion
Mu Sigma	Series B	General Atlantic	USD 108 Million	to accelerate its growth in analytics services market
DLF Ackruti Info Parks Ltd	PE acquisition	Blackstone	USD 153 million	N/A
Amara Raja Batteries	Private Equity	Sequoia Capital India	USD 4.5 Million	Open Market Shares buy by Sequoia

The last week of 2011 was expectedly quite slow, and probably witnessed least number of deals since we started covering funding deals 6 months back!

You can check out coverage of all the previous Weekly Funding & M&A deals round-up here.

Note: Even though we try our best to bring you all the funding / M&A deals of the week, there are always ones which go un-reported. Most of the deals which we put up here are published on multiple websites, and we do refer them to provide the accuracy of deal in question. If you know of the any that we have not covered, please let us know and we will be more than happy to add it to the list!