ICICI Venture Funds Management has completed raising $190 million for its fourth fund titled India Advantage Fund Series 4, a sector agnostic fund like its predecessors, from existing investors and an unnamed Asian sovereign wealth fund, reports Mint. The company expects to raise more capital for this fund over time. ICICI Venture is a fully owned subsidiary of ICICI Bank. It is also looking to exit existing investments by secondary and asset sales, the report added. As of now, there are 9 companies in the India Advantage Fund Series 3 and ICICI Venture has made 3 partial exits. ICICI Venture has realised $845 million from 33 exits across its first 3 private equity funds in the last 6 years, but it is unclear as to how much it had invested in the companies that time. In its Fund 1 Series, the company has InfoMedia18, PVR Cinemas among others, in Fund 2, it includes Mahindra Retail, PVR Limited, PVR Pictures, in Series 3, there’s Adlabs Entertainment and BTI Payments among others. BTI Payments stake and IBM deal: In December 2013, ICICI Venture picked up a strategic stake in BTI Payments, an ATM management company and a subsidiary of Banktech Group, Australia, for Rs 140 crore. In January, IBM and BTI Payments signed a Rs 260 crore deal, in which the latter would use IBM’s ATM solution to deploy and manage its ATMs. Recently announced funds in India: – Last month, medical equipment provider Trivitron’s Managing Director GSK Velu floated two investment funds—a Venture…
