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New Delhi: Private equity investments in the second quarter of 2015, eliminating real estate, stood at US Dollar 3.85 billion across 262 deals in April-June period, a 43% increase in value terms over corresponding period previous year, says a V CC Edge report.
According to the financial database and research platform, there were personal equity movement worth US Dollar 2.69 billion by way of 203 deals in the second quarter of 2014.
V CC Edge is the financial database and research platform of the V Cc Circle Network, owned by News Team.
V CC Circle Network owner Sahad P V said early stage investments have Jumped private equity inflows into India as investors are betting on emerging companies.
The report said that the first half of this year saw deals worth US Dollar 8.3 billion against US dollar 4.9 billion during the same period previous year, registering a rise of 70%.
The number of deals in the six months of this year raise up to 27% to 513 deals from 403 last year due to boost investor sentiment.
"This has been mainly due to a rise in early-stage and venture capital investments in technology companies," the report added.
Meantime, the average deal value moves up to 19% to US dollar 20.48 million in the future period from US dollar 17.14 million in 2014.
Great deals, which were worth at least 100 million dollar constituted 71 % of the total private equity capital invested in April-June 2015.
Sector-wise, consumer discretionary, financial services, energy, information technology and healthcare were the top five sectors for PE deals during the April-June segment in terms of value.
In terms of cities, India's IT hub Bengaluru Bits the list of top cities in the country that saw maximum personal equity investments, followed by Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon and Chennai, it added.