Lets take a look at the funding & M&A deals that happened in the week starting January 16th 2012.
Funding, M&A Deals of the Week [Jan 16th to Jan 22nd 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!