India SME Investments

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

Advent International is a global private equity firm focusing on buyouts and growth equity investments across five core sectors: business and financial services, healthcare, industrial, technology, and retail/consumer.

PAG is a Hong Kong-headquartered alternative/private asset manager focused on APAC, investing for institutional investors across three core strategies: Credit & Markets, Private Equity and Real Assets.

General Atlantic is a global investment manager with growth equity, credit, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure strategies.

Bain Capital is a private investment manager with private equity, growth and venture, credit, and real-assets businesses.

TPG Capital is a global multi-strategy asset manager headquartered in California that invests in private equity, credit, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. TPG begun as a private equity investor before expanding into other strategies, and that remains the largest part of the business with more than $60bn under management, representing about 60% of total capital. TPG Sixth Street Partners (the Credit and Special Situations fund) manages $30bn of investments. TPG Real Estate manages $11bn in equity and debt investments. TPG Public Equity Partners manages $2bn of assets. hello ;) TPG was founded as the Texas Pacific Group in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price.

Actis is a leading private equity investor in high growth markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invest in private equity buyouts and grwoth capital, energy, infrastructure and real estate. We have >120 investment professionals across 16 global offices. In every market we invest in, we nurture close local relationships, providing us with excellent competitive intelligence and access to opportunities. We match this local insight with a global sector approach, which helps us deliver great results. A particular strength lies in helping families and founders of local businesses to institutionalise. We take successful local brands and help them to grow; to attract the best talent; to compete with multinational corporations and to prepare for IPOs. Consequently many business founders seek to work with Actis, resulting in unique proprietary deal flow.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and growth equity fund headquartered in Silicon Valley and with subsidiaries in India and Israel. Northwest Venture Partners invests from the seed to late stage and invests across a wide variety of sectors. In Venture, we invest in early-stage venture projects with world-class technologies and entrepreneurs, and later-stage companies with existing customers, strong sales and top tier management and co-investors. For early stage companies with strong growth potential, our general goal is to invest between $10 million and $15 million in each company over time. We sometimes begin with a smaller amount (as little as $1 million to $5 million), and we have the ability to invest as much as $25 million to $30 million. In Growth Equity, we invest in profitable, market-leading companies that demonstrate exceptional growth potential. We take a long-term and flexible approach to partnering with founders and executives in both minority and control investments. Our proven and repeatable research process for finding and evaluating investments allows us to uncover value creation opportunities that others might not see. Our investment size ranges from $20 million to $150 million and we focus on Technology, Information Services, Business Services, Financial Services, Consumer Products/Services and Healthcare.

TA Associates is one of the world's oldest and most successful mid-market private equity firms. TA has five decades of demonstrated success helping to scale growth companies around the world across five core industries - Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technology. TA invests in both minority and majority transactions - our capital is commonly used to provide liquidity to shareholders, working capital, acquisitions or growth. TA partners with owners and management teams to build outstanding businesses. It focuses on profitable businesses with strong management teams and proprietary products and services. We take a long-term approach, and provide flexible financial structures that are driven by your objectives.

Lighthouse Canton is a wealth and asset manager with strategies including private credit, venture debt, venture capital, life sciences real estate, Indian equities and global macro.

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic organization funded directly by Pierre and Pam Omidyar. Its hybrid structure pairs an LLC that invests in startups with a foundation that makes nonprofit grants; its work focuses on technology and the digital future.

Clearwater Capital Partners is a credit investor focused on direct lending, secondary credit, and special situations opportunities across Asia.

ADV Partners is a Singapore-based private equity firm focusing on mid-market value investments in Asia.

Kotak Alternate Asset Managers is the Kotak Group's alternative investment manager, with a private equity business active in India since 2005. Its PE strategy spans early life sciences and later-stage growth, alongside real estate, infrastructure and credit strategies.

Eight Roads is a Fidelity-backed global investment platform with venture teams investing in technology and healthcare companies across Asia, Europe, Israel and the US.

Amara Partners LLP is the manager of Amara Partners Growth Fund I, a registered Indian Category II alternative investment scheme. It invests in mid-market private equity and growth capital, leading rounds in profitable companies and backing faster-growing technology-enabled businesses in sectors including manufacturing, finance, consumer and healthcare.

Everstone Capital is the Singapore-headquartered private equity arm of Everstone Group. It makes control-oriented, mid-market growth investments in India and Southeast Asia, with sector emphasis on healthcare, technology services, consumer, financial services and industrials.

Filter Capital is a Mumbai-based growth equity investment firm founded in 2018 that focuses on technology and tech-enabled businesses in India.