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India is hot spot for private equity
Published on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 12:21, Updated on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 14:09 in Business section
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Chicago: With a lot of start-ups being launched, and high liquidity in the equity markets providing a good exit outlet, private equity is beginning to rush into India.
Around $2.5 billion poured into India in the first quarter of 2006, as against a similar amount in all the quarters of the previous year.
CNN-IBN's Indira Kannan spoke to the experts at a recent Tata India Business Conference in Chicago.
In the conference, which was held at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, one of the most sought after panels was on investing in India
While experts agree that India is emerging as an increasingly attractive prospect for both late-stage and early-stage private equity, one of the bottlenecks is finding the right talent.
"If you look at Silicon Valley 30 years ago, you had a lot of smart people but you did not have entrepreneurs who had gone through the learning curve," said business partner Ajit Nazre of US-based equity firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
"Three generations, three decades later, it’s a different story altogether. The same thing is true with India. Another concern is that too much money coming in could leave investors out in the cold as it did in the US during the tech boom in the late 1990s," he added.
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