Month-wise deal information on Venture Capital, Private Equity and strategic investments (INV) and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in Internet, Mobile and Media in India.
Investments and M&A Deals In Internet, Mobile and Media in India
August 2011
August 25: INV: InOpen Secures Seed Funding Of $500,000 From VenturEast
August 19: INV: MediaTek Invests In Former India Director’s Startup MoMagic
August 18: INV: Apps Retail Co Onward Mobility Raises Around $4M From Qualcomm Ventures, IndoUS
August 18: INV: YourNextLeap.com Raises Series-A Funding
August 15: M&A: Google To Buy Motorola Mobility For $12.5Bn; Beyond Handsets
August 02: M&A: BillDesk Founder Srinivasu MN Rubbishes AmEx Talks Report
August 02: M&A: Ybrant Proposes To Merge With LGS Global; Our Take
August 01: M&A: Bonvoyage.in Acquired By Residency Projects & Infratech Ltd; Eh?
July 2011
July 29: M&A: Yatra Acquires Hotel Aggregation Company MagicRooms
July 28: INV: Snapdeal Raises $40M From Bessemer, NVP & IndoUS Venture Partners
July 28: M&A: HomeShop18 To Buy Online Books Retailer CoinJoos: Sources
July 27: M&A: Disney Looks To Buy UTV, Delist At Rs 1000 Per Share; $272.38M
July 25: INV: Future Ventures Acquires Majority Stake In ACK Media
July 22: INV: Bigshoebazaar Raises Rs.40 Crore From Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran & Nexus Venture Partners
July 21: INV: InMobi, BIG Showbiz, Ortel, Ybrant, B4U Get FIPB Approvals
July 19: M&A: Komli Media Acquires Mobile Ad Network ZestADZ
July 19: M&A: Jagran Prakashan Promoters Consolidate Shareholding Into JMNIPL
July 19: INV: TheMobileGamer Raises $820,000 From One97 Mobility Fund
July 19: M&A: Net4 India To Merge With Piptel; Demerge ISP Subsidiary
July 15: M&A: Sony To Buy Eenadu TV’s Television Channels: Report
July 14: INV: HomeShop18 Raises Rs.100 Crore; Eyes Rs.200 Crore More: Report
July 13: INV: Real Estate Group Buying Portal GrOffr Raises $1M From Indian Angel Network
July 12: INV: Updated: E-Commerce Co IndiaPlaza Raises $5M From IndoUS Ventures; Financials
July 11: INV: Eko Raises $5.5M In Funding From Creation Investments Social Ventures Fund I
July 09: INV: Blackstone Invests Rs.150 Crore In FINO
July 07: INV: Times Internet Launches T-Labs Incubation Program For Internet & Mobile Startups
July 06: INV: Deals: Global Online Apparel Raises $4M From Mangrove Capital; ZOVI.com Secures $5.5M From SAIF Partners
July 06: M&A: Saregama Partners Timbre Media To Relaunch WorldSpace On Mobile, Internet & DTH
July 05: M&A: High Court Verdict Puts Idea-Spice Merger On The Chopping Block
July 04: M&A: Synchronica Acquires Nokia’s Operator Branded Messaging Business For $25 Million
June 2011
June 30: M&A: Vistaprint Buys PrintBell.com
June 29: INV: EYantra Picks Up Stake In Promotional Goods Consortium IGC Global Promotions NV
June 29: INV: Mobile Ad Co Vserv Backed By Paymate MD Ajay Adiseshann; Android
June 29: M&A: Ybrant To Acquire Minority Stake In Israel Based Web 3.0
June 28: INV: One97 Invests In Data Roaming Provider LeapSky Wireless
June 27: INV: Eki Communications Raises $250,000
June 24: INV: Angel Health Raises Rs 2.5 Crore From HDFC’s PE Arm
June 23: INV: CaratLane Secures $6 Million From Tiger Global
June 23: M&A: Axel Springer Invests In iProperty Through French Subsidy SeLoger.com
June 17: INV: Eki Communications Raises $250,000; Offers Mobile Based Voice Collaboration Tool For Enterprise
June 17: INV: Tata Communications Increases Shareholding In Neotel To 61.5%
June 16: INV: Flipkart Raises $20 Million From Tiger Global; Financials
June 16: INV: Video Navigation Start-Up VidTeq Raises Funding From KITVEN
June 16: INV: mKay Raises Funds From MyFirstCheque; Pilots Apply2Many
June 15: M&A: BenefitsPlus Acquires Daily Deals Site Koovs; To Foray Into B2C Deals
June 15: M&A: Ericsson To Acquire Telcordia For $1.15 Billion
June 13: INV: Moneysights.com raises $270K from Blume Ventures & Naveen Tewari
June 10: INV: FIPB Approvals For Vogel, What’s On India, Star News, Mango Holding
June 07: INV: Adepto Secures $300,000 Investment From Blume Ventures
June 07: INV: JustDial Raises $10M From Sequoia Capital & SAP Ventures
June 02: M&A: Komli Media Acquires Media Sales House Aktiv Digital To Target South East Asia
May 2011
May 27: INV: Exclusively.in Raises $16M; Starts UK Operations
May 23: INV: ThePrivateSales.com Raises $5M In Series-A Funding; NextWave?
May 20: M&A: Does It Matter Anymore If BSNL & MTNL Merge?
May 19: M&A: PubMatic Acquires Ad-Network Optimization Platform ReviNet
May 17: INV: Intel Capital Announces $18M Worth Investments In Indian Companies
May 12: INV: Sourcebits Secures $10 Million Investment from Sequoia & IDG Ventures
May 09: INV: Quikr Raises $8M From Nokia Growth Partners, NVP & E-Bay
May 04: INV: FIPB Approves Tikona-HCL Infinet Deal; Augere Wireless’ FDI Infusion
May 02: INV: OnMobile Sells 9% In Ver Se For Rs 28.59 Crore
April 2011
April 26: INV: FirstCry.com Raises $4M From SAIF Partners
April 21: INV: Via Plans To Raise $100M, Plan IPO: Report
April 21: INV: Online Cab Booking Service Olacabs.com Raises Funding
April 21: INV: PolicyBazaar Raises $9 Million From Intel Capital, Info Edge
April 20: INV:Yatra Online Raises Rs.200 Crore From Valiant, NVP & Intel Capital
April 19: INV: ACK Media Raises Funding From Future Ventures, Elephant Capital; Plans Amusement Park
April 19: M&A: UFO Moviez Raises Rs 260 Crore From Providence Equity Partners
April 14: INV: Babyoye.com Raises $2.5M From Accel, Tiger Global
April 14: M&A: Why Would Virgin Mobile Even Want To Stay In The Indian Market?
April 13: INV: ZipDial Gets A Funding Call; Raises Rs.3.5Crore From Mumbai Angels
April 12: INV: LBS Startup MojoStreet Raises $350K; Plans Location Gaming, Deals
April 08: INV: E-Commerce Co IndiaPlaza Raises $5M From IndoUS Ventures; Financials
April 06: INV: Venky’s Invests In Akon’s Hitlab.com; India Plans
April 01: INV: NTT Docomo To Invest Rs. 800 Crore In Tata Teleservices
March 2011
March 31: M&A: Vodafone Buys Out Essar’s Stake In Vodafone-Essar
March 31: INV: Bubble Motion Raises $10M To Expand Mobile-Voice Social Network, Bubbly
March 29: INV: Video Streaming Co Jigsee Gets Series-A Funding From Indian Angel Network
March 25: INV: Bharti To Sell Majority Stake In Comviva
March 21: M&A: Facebook Acquires Snaptu; Snaptu’s Other Platforms?
March 21: INV: Info Edge Invests In Content Platform Blinkk.me
March 18: INV: BankBazaar.com Raises $6M From Walden International
March 16: INV: MeriCar Gets Funding From MyFirstCheque
March 16: INV: Just-Eat Raises $48M In Funding For International Expansion
March 16: INV: Indiaplaza Reportedly Raising Money
March 14: INV: Myntra Gets $14M In Second Round Funding
March 10: INV: Sokrati Raises Series A Funding From Inventus Capital Partners
March 09: INV: Music Startup Beyond Oblivion Raises $77M With An Eye On India, Malaysia, US
March 03: INV: Kapil Dev Takes Stake In Online Radio Venture Radio Corp; Digital Rights Portfolio
February 2011
Feb 24: INV: Balaji Telefilms To Sell Its Online And Mobile Business
Feb 21: M&A:MIH Group Acquires Majority Stake In Gaadi.com
Feb 15: INV: GetJar Raises $25M Series C Funding From Tiger Global Management
Feb 15: INV: Video Streaming Co Jigsee Gets Series-A Funding From Indian Angel Network
Feb 15: INV: Kaltura Raises $20M From Nexus Ventures and Intel Capital
Feb 10: INV: Bigshoebazaar Raises Rs 10 Crore From Nexus Venture Partners
Feb 9: INV: Ciqual Raises Funding From One97 & Tomorrow Ventures
Feb 8: INV: MyInsuranceClub Secures Second Round Funding
Feb 3: INV: Affle Partners D2 Communications For Strategic Alliance
Feb 3: M&A: Karvy Acquires Personal Finance Start-Up iTrust
Feb 3: M&A: JMD Telefilms Buys E-Commerce Biz Bajaao.com For $1.1M
Feb 2: INV: Behavioral Retargeting Co Vizury Raises Series A Investment From Ojas, Inventus
Feb 1: INV: ValueFirst Raises $15M From Headland Asia Ventures, NEA; Targets Acquisitions
Jan 2011
Jan 31: M&A: Spice i2i Acquires Indonesian Mobile Venture Affinity; Deal Details
Jan 27: INV: Snapdeal Raises $12M Funding; Launches BabyBox, MoneySaver Prime, Plans Acquisitions
Jan 24: M&A: JMD Telefilms Buys Digital Co Trading Gate For $2.6M; $28.5M Allocated For MVAS, Digital Buys
Jan 20: M&A: Tikona Buys Loss Making Networking Services Co HCL Infinet
Jan 18: INV: Ybrant Raises $48 Million; Acquisition & Expansion Plans
Jan 18: M&A: Pearson Acquires 76% In Tutorvista For $127 M; Plans
Jan 17: INV: LetsBuy.com Raises $6 million From Helion, Accel & Tiger Global
Jan 13: M&A: Just Eat Picks Up Majority Stake In India’s Hungry Zone; To Invest $5-10 M
Jan 12: INV: Apalya Raises $7.5 M From IndoUS, Qualcomm, IDG; Why It Needs Money
Jan 11: M&A:Tata Communications To Acquire Content Delivery Network BitGravity
Jan 11: M&A:Updated: GroupOn Enters India By Acquiring SoSasta.com: Report
Jan 11: INV: Updated: MotorExchange Raises $5 Million From Epiphany Ventures, Canaan Partners
Jan 10: M&A:Shine.com To Be Merged Into HT Media
Jan 7: M&A:Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim For $31 Million
Jan 6: M&A: Web18 To Be Merged Into Network18; To Settle With Nokia Growth Partners
Jan 5: INV: ECommerce Portal BuyThePrice.com Raises Funding From A Clutch Of Angel Investors
Q4 2010
Dec 14: INV: EKO Raises Series A Funding From 4B Capital; Mobile Remittance Drives Growth
Dec 13: M&A: Personal Finance Portal RupeeTalk Acquired By NetAmbit; 3 Recent Exits By Seedfund
Dec 09: M&A: Spice i2i Acquires Thai Handset Co NewTel Corporation For $22M
Dec 07: INV: Fashion And You Raises Around $8 Million From Sequoia Capital India
Nov 26: M&A: Rediff.com Shareholders Approve $3.37 Million Vubites Acquisition
Nov 22: M&A: Venky’s Completes Blackburn Rovers Purchase
Nov 17: INV: Intel Capital Invests In Shufflr ($3 Million), BuzzInTown, Verismo And 20 Others, Including Layar
Nov 17: M&A: HolidayIQ Merges With WeGo; Raises Funding From Tiger Global
Nov 10: M&A: Axel Springer & India Today Buy Carwale; Springer Takes 19.1% In Bag It Today
Oct 19: M&A: Mindworks Acquires Dancewithshadows.com, Enters Online Publishing Biz; Exceptional Click-throughs
Oct 07: M&A: Buying To Sell? Komli Acquires UK Online Marketing Co Indoor Media
Oct 05: INV: Netmagic Solutions Raises $16M From Nokia Growth Partners, Cisco
Oct 05: M&A: OnMobile Global To Acquire Dilithium Networks, A 3G Video Solutions Company
Oct 04: M&A: Publicis Groupe To Acquire Social Media Consulting Co 2020Social, Agency 20:20 Media
Sep 21: M&A: NDTV To Sell 49% In Lifestyle Biz To Astro For $40 Million
Sep 09: INV: Russian Government Approves Buy Of 20% In MTS India For $600M
Sep 09: INV: Times Of India Invests $4 Million In Online Content Network InstaMedia
Sep 02: INV: IPTV Co Aksh Closes $25 M GDR Issue; MD Resigns, Moves To International Subsidiary
Aug 31: INV: Thin Client Novatium Sells Strategic Minority Stake To Ericsson; Importance
Aug 30: INV: Sify To Raise $86 Million For Indian Entity From Promoter Group; Indian IPO?
Aug 28: INV: Classifieds Biz OLX Raises Undisclosed Amount Of Funding From Naspers
Q3 2010
Aug 26: M&A: IMI Mobile Acquires 97.10% In WIN Plc; To Apply To LSE For Delisting
Aug 25: M&A: RIM Acquires Mobile Content Platform Co Cellmania
Aug 20: INV: Suvidhaa Raises $7 Million Series B Funding; Break Even By 2012, IPO 2014
Aug 20: INV: Would You Bet Rs. 33 Crore On Naaptol? Canaan Partners Has
Aug 19: JV: Reliance ADAG & CBS JV BIG-CBS To Launch 3 Channels By Year End
Aug 16: M&A: Updated: Lycos Sold To India’s Ybrant Digital For $36 Million
Aug 09: M&A: Astro Acquires 50% In Getit Yellow Pages For $20 M: Report
Aug 06: INV: Naaptol Raises Rs. 25 Crore From Canaan: Report; Home Shopping?
Jul 30: JV: Qualcomm Brings Tulip, GHC As India LTE Rollout Partners For $28M
Jul 30: M&A: McAfee To Acquire Phone Backup & Security Co WaveSecure; One97 Exits
Jul 14: INV: Ad Network Komli Media Raises $6 Million In Funding For AsiaPac Expansion
Jul 02: M&A: RCOM To Merge Broadband, IPTV, DTH & Cable TV Ops; Acquires Digicable
Q2 2010
Jun 28: M&A, INV: What’s The Deal With The Group Buying Space In India? One HUGE Positive
Jun 21: INV: Rediff.com Invested In Online Insurance Aggregator Fintact
Jun 18: INV: Bloomberg UTV To Sell 18% Stake To Reliance Capital; FIPB Approval In UTV News Ltd
Jun 16: INV: Amar Chitra Katha Raises GBP 4 Million From Elephant Capital & Related Entities
Jun 10: M&A: Komli COO Prashant Mehta On PostClick Acquisition; Vizisense To Go Freemium
Jun 10: M&A: Komli Media Acquires Australian Site Rep Firm PostClick For Market Entry
May 31: M&A: Music Search Site Phulki Acquired By Saavn? On Smashits, Raaga & Saavn’s Network
May 19: STR: Social Network IndyaRocks Raises Strategic Investment From ValueFirst
May 07: M&A: Gemini Communications Acquires African WiMAX Co Rosy Blue Wireless For $20M
May 05: M&A: Mid Day Sells Print Business To Jagran Prakashan; Share Swap Ratio 7:2
May 04: M&A: Netcore (MyToday) Acquires Greynium (OneIndia, Click.in)
Apr 29: M&A: Zee Acquires 9X From INX Media
Apr 22: M&A: Tanla Completes OpenBit Acquisition; Final 10% Stake For EUR 5.95M
Apr 19: M&A: Meta Search Co Infospace’s India Dev Center Acquired By Aditi Technologies
Apr 15: INV: PubMatic Closes $7.5 Million Series C Funding From Existing Investors
Apr 08: PIPE: Jagran To Receive $50M Investment From Blackstone
Apr 06: M&A: Zapak Acquires 50% In CodeMasters; Interview
Apr 05: M&A: Why ValueFirst Acquired SMS Social Network Tagg.in
Q1 2010
Mar 31: M&A: Airtel Acquires Zain Africa For $10.7 Billion
Mar 31: INV: Classifieds Biz Quikr Raises $6 Million Series C Funding Led by NVP
Mar 30: INV: App Developer Onward Mobility Raises Around Rs 30M From Mumbai Angels
Mar 30: PT: Times of India Makes Private Treaty Invement In Nimbus
Mar 26: M&A: ValueFirst Acquires Noida Based PacketShaper; Product Plans
Mar 23: PIPE: AT&T Buys 8.07% Stake In Tech Mahindra
Mar 17: STR: Indiatimes Buys Back Sequoia Capital Stake
Mar 16: KPCB & Sherpalo Sell Significant Stake In Info Edge
Mar 15: STR: Web18 Sells Back 50% Stake In Jobstreet India; $0.126M Cash
Mar 12: INV: eYantra Raises $7.8 M In Series B From Argonaut
Mar 05: INV: July Systems Raises $7 M To Fund Mobile Publishing
Mar 03: M&A: EdServ Takes Over SmartLearn Web TV For Rs 46M
Mar 03: M&A: Meltwater Acquires Social Media Monitoring Co BuzzGain For $4 Million
Mar 02: INV: Affle Raises Strategic Invement From Japan’s Itochu Corp; Deployments
Feb 24: INV: DQ Entertainment Pre-IPO Placement Raises Rs.256.9M
Feb 15: M&A: SinglePoint Buys M2Junction; Auction Based SMS Advertising
Feb 12: STR: Telenor Invests Final Tranch Of Rs. 2.2B Complete
Feb 10: M&A: Ojas Ventures Exits Mango Tech, Qualcomm Buys 2 Software
Feb 10: STR: Inox Buys 43.28% Stake In Fame For Rs.664.8M; Consolidation
Feb 09: M&A: MakeMyTrip To Acquire Bus Ticketing Site Ticketvala
Feb 03: STR: One97 Communications Acquires Minority Stake In tenCube
Jan 27: INV: Via (FlightRaja) To Receive $10M From Sequoia Capital
Jan 27: M&A: Educomp To Acquire Online Education Startup StudyPlaces For Upto $1.5M
Jan 21: INV: SMS GupShup Raises $12Million In Series-D Funding
Jan 18: M&A: Tata Communications To Acquire BT’s Digital Media Management Platform Mosaic
Jan 18: M&A: Airtel Acquires 70% In Warid Telecom; Warid Makeover?
Jan 15: STR: GB Corp Buys 11% In S Tel; Stakeholders
Jan 14: PE: TA Associates Invests $45M In Indian Mobile Handset Manufacturer Micromax
Jan 08: M&A: Reliance MediaWorks Acquires London Based ilab
Q4 2009
Dec 17: INV: B2B Auto Biz MotorExchange Gets Series A Investment From Canaan Partners
Dec 10: PIPE: Net 4 India Raises Rs. 150M From Madison India Capital
Dec 08: STR: NDTV To Sell Stake In NDTV Imagine To Turner For $117 M
Dec 04: INV: Global Cricket Ventures Raises $10M From Elephant Capital
Nov 25: INV: BuzzInTown Receives Fresh Funding From Intel Capital; Our Take
Nov 23: PIPE: Dish TV Sells 11% ake For $100M To PE Firm Apollo Mgmt
Nov 20: M&A: Scripps Networks Acquires NDTV Lifeyle For $55M
Nov 16: M&A: Essar Buys Warid Telecom Uganda & Congo; Race For Coverage
Oct 15: STR: NDTV To Buy Back NBC Universal’s 26% Stake In NDTV Networks
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