DUBAI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Bahrain-essentially based mostly Investcorp objectives to larger than double its inner most equity investments in India over the following couple of years and is in the intervening time having a survey to raise novel capital for on-line retailer FreshToHome, by which it invested closing 365 days, an govt talked about.
Investcorp is in the intervening time managing round $300 million of inner most equity investments in India, an unlimited majority of which was as soon as made proper thru the final 18 months, talked about Gaurav Sharma, head of inner most equity at Investcorp India.
The agency, which specializes in inner most equity, accurate estate, credit management and absolute return investments, plans to larger than double that quantity as it seeks to capitalise on India's digitalisation force, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I would snarl in the subsequent three to four years we would need to larger than double property beneath management and invest near $400-500 million no lower than in India", Sharma told Reuters.
India has seen the upward thrust of 15 so-known as unicorns - startups with a valuation in some distance more than $1 billion - in the first half of of the 365 days on my own, Investcorp talked about in a conception.
The country shall be seeing solid appetite from public merchants, with Indian food provide startup Zomato elevating $1.3 billion in an preliminary public providing (IPO) this 365 days that was as soon as 38 instances oversubscribed.
Sharma talked about Investcorp was as soon as working with a world investment monetary institution to raise main capital for FreshToHome, an instantaneous-to-user meat and seafood retailer, which is aiming to enlarge in other markets such because the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
"We're expecting an unlimited assign-up to our investment ... revenues like literally doubled thru COVID, and valuations like long gone up as effectively... so we might per chance per chance be having a survey at a unicorn-plus startup already for this investment", he talked about.
Investcorp invested in the agency in November closing 365 days as portion of a $121 million funding round alongside other merchants.
The novel funding might per chance per chance exceed $200 million, he talked about, including that an IPO - while no longer in the intervening time on the playing cards - might per chance per chance be regarded as as in about two years.
"Public merchants will be having a survey to support an organization fancy FreshToHome, there's an unlimited ESG (environmental, social and governance) perspective as effectively", he talked about.
Reporting by Davide Barbuscia; Editing by Kirsten Donovan
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