Indian Funding, M&A deals of the Week [2nd Jan – 8th Jan 2012]
The Funding scene has come back to normalcy after a lackluster last week of 2011. Lets take a look at the funding deals that happened in the week starting December 2nd January 2012.
Funding, M&A Deals of the Week [Jan 2nd to Jan 8th 2012]
Funded Company / Acquired Company | Deal Type | Who Funded / Who Acquired |
Funding Amount | Remarks |
Hero Eco Electric Motors | Acquisition | Ultra Motors UK | Undisclosed | for expansion in the electric-vehicle business |
Rohini Seeds Pvt. Ltd. | Acquisition | Crystal Crop Protection Pvt. Ltd. | Undisclosed | to expand their range of products and infrastructure |
Fosfatos del Pacifico (Fospac) | Private Equity buy | Zuari Industries | USD 46.12 Million | N/A |
Lifemojo | Acquisition | Flightraja Travels Pvt Ltd. | Undisclosed | For general expansion of Business |
Leap Green Energy Pvt Ltd | Private equity | JP Morgan Asset Management | Rs. 100 Crore | to invest in its wind, solar and hydel projects |
160by2.com | Acquisition | Way2Online Interactive India | Undisclosed | All cash deal to gain 160X2 customer base |
Swissrisk Financial Systems | Acquisition | Dion Global Solutions | Undisclosed | to diversify its product suite and markets |
BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited | Private equity | Michael & Susan Dell Foundation | Undisclosed | reference |
Neela Systems Ltd | Acquisition | Praj Industries | Rs. 64 Crore | N/A |
BigIndianWedding.com | Angel Funding | Indian Business Family (undisclosed) | undisclosed | to ramp up its ecommerce platform. |
Star Health | Private Equity | ICICI Venture, Sequoia Capital and Oman Insurance | Rs. 50 Crore | For general expansion |
Heckyl.com | Angel Funding | SeeFund | USD 1 Million | to expand its financial & analytics platform |
[We are sometimes unable to get the funding amounts, as they are not disclosed. However, we update this sheet when it becomes public. If you are aware of amounts, and they have not been put up in the table, please do get in touch with us.]
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!
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Thanks Arun,
I just want to know that Hero Eco Electric Motors and Hero Moto Corp are same company
different brand or two different companies ?
Hero Eco Electric Motors is a subset of Hero Moto Corp. The latter is the parent company!