Padmaja Ruparel
Ms. Padmaja Ruparel is the Founding Partner at IAN Fund. Padmaja is nationally recognized as a key player in the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem and has helped co found many of the relevant institutions, besides being an active Angel investor herself. Her operating experience spans large corporates, M&A, and startups/early stage companies. She has been awarded as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune India 2017 & 2018, listed in Forbes India’s W- Power Trailblazers and “30 Most Powerful Women in India” by Business Today
Co Founder of Indian Angel Network (IAN), India s first & now possibly one of the world’s largest group of business angels, comprising the who s who of successful entrepreneurs and dynamic CEOs from India and overseas. She built IAN from inception, making it within a decade, a unique institution globally, with close to 500 investors from 12 countries and a portfolio of 135+ companies in 7 countries, spanning 17 secto
Private equity and venture capital fund investments in India stood at USD 47.6 billion in 2020, at par with the previous year, on the back of flows into RIL s retail and telecom arms, a report said. When looked at from the perspective of number of deals, exits secured by such investors and new fund raises for future, it was a disappointing year for the country, as per a report by consultancy EY and Indian Venture Capital Association. Investments into Reliance Industries (RIL) telecom arm Jio Platforms and retail arm came at USD 17.3 billion, or over a third of overall investments during the year, it said.
[Watch] This year’s funding into edtech startups outshines the last five years: Report
The Indian edtech ecosystem raised $4 billion in the last five years. Over 92 players received funding in 2020, out of which 61 received seed funding.
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Indian Venture Capital Association and Praxis Global Alliance have released an edtech report titled The Great ‘Un-Lockdown’: Indian EdTech, Disruptions and opportunities for the next decade . The report says that the total amount raised by the edtech industry in 2020 was
$2.2 billion. This is significant as the
Indian edtech ecosystem has raised $4 billion over the last five years.
This also marked the rise of B2B edtech startups, over