Indian Funding, M&A deals of the Week [16th Jan – 22nd Jan 2012]

Lets take a look at the funding & M&A deals that happened in the week starting January 16^th 2012.

Funding, M&A Deals of the Week [Jan 16^th to Jan 22^nd 2012]

Funded Company / Acquired Company	Deal Type	Who Funded /   Who Acquired	Funding Amount	Remarks
GUARDIAN	Private Equity	Acumen Fund	USD 1 Million	to expand its portfolio
Creapharm Parenterals	Acquisition	Dishman Pharmaceuticals	Undisclosed
eTechies.in	Series A	Inventus Capital	USD 2 Million	For Pan-India Expansion
DM Healthcare Pvt Ltd	Private Equity	Olympus Capital Asia Investments Ltd	USD 100 Million	For general expansion
Knowlarity Communications	Series A	Sequoia Capital	USD 6.5 MIllion	To strengthen R7D activities & market expansion
Reliance Capital Asset Management	Minority stake 26%	Nippon Life	USD 290 Million	N/A
Loginworks Softwares	Angel Funding	IncuCapital	Undisclosed	For general expansion
Anshin Software Pvt Ltd	Acquisition	Nomura Research Institute Ltd	Undisclosed	To enhance global operational support
Privilege Corner	Acquisition	eYantra Industries Ltd	Undisclosed	For strategic reasons
Be Well Hospitals	Private Equity	Song Investment Advisors	Undisclosed	N/A
SV Agro Processing	Private Equity	Song Investment Advisors	Undisclosed	N/A
HandsPick.com	Angel Funding	Seedfund	Undisclosed	For expansion of their Ecommerce Platform
Protect Nature Private Limited	Majority Stake	Malabar Trading Company Limited	Undisclosed	N/A
Varsity Education Management Pvt Ltd	Minority Stake	New Silk Route Partner	Undisclosed	To expand to Educational Institutes across Karnataka

[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!