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The Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (ivca), in partnership with the Centre for Business Innovation (CBI) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), has launched a startup board member training programme for PE/VC fund managers. The programme aims to address the needs of professionals appointed by private capital funds on the board of early to growth stage companies.

New Delhi, Oct 3 () Aditya Birla Group flagship company Grasim Industries today said its independent director R C Bhargava has resigned from the Board. Bhargava, who is the Chairman of the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India, resigned citing personal reasons.

NEW DELHI: Global financial database manager Thomson Financial has entered into an agreement with Indian Venture Capital Association (ivca) and Prime Database to create an internationally-benchmarked database on the Indian venture capital market industry.

The Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) industry is hoping for changes in the taxation of the Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) business model and requesting for a harmonised framework for the asset class to help avoid legal challenges that it is currently exposed to.

The Budget has proposed to restrict the "pass-through" to VC funds operating only in half a dozen areas specified by it.

As per industry insiders, there are two suggested ways to certify or give a legal structure to angel networks which channel a large number of angel deals.

Investments by private equity and venture capital funds doubled to a record high of $9.5 billion in July mainly driven by higher investor interest in the e-commerce sector, a report said on Monday.

New Delhi, Feb 2 () With the Budget proposing doing away with long-term capital gains tax exemption if shares have been purchased without paying STT, venture capital and private equity investors want clarification to keep their investment in unlisted companies and ESOPs exempted.

Indian edtech startups received a total investment of $2.22 billion in 2020 as compared to $553 million in 2019, reflecting the confidence of investors in the segment that has seen a huge surge amid the pandemic, a report by ivca-PGA Labs said on Thursday.

While overall investments were lower than the USD 4.1 billion in July last year, the amount was 17 per cent higher than June this year, as per the report by industry lobby ivca and consultancy firm EY.The number of transactions was down 26 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to 59 in July while month-on-month it slipped 20 per cent.

London-based data provider Preqin has opened an office in Bengaluru with the potential to add 400 people.