Deals

India: Macquarie said to consider buying Goldman Sachs stake in ReNew Power

China Evergrande to pay $2.1b for minority stake in Guanghui Group

HK-listed United Energy to buy Kuwaiti firm for $651m

IFC mulls up to $30m investment in UAE’s Yellow Door Energy

Private Equity

Kotak PE plans to exit wellness firm Indus Biotech via IPO

HK-based PE firm Affinity acquires ASX-listed Scottish Pacific Group for $457m

India: Everstone-backed IndoSpace forms JV with GLP to co-invest in infra sector

PE firm Navis may start looking at IPOs as an exit option, says co-founder Bloy

Venture Capital

SG’s Transcelestial raises $1.8m seed funding co-led by Wavemaker and SEED Capital

India Digest: Fintech startups Kredent, Qbera raise funding; OBOPAY buys Mubble

Unicorn India ropes in Federal Bank as anchor investor for venture debt fund

pi Ventures raises final tranche of $31m first fund to invest in deep tech startups

Nasscom unveils second phase of AI startups mentor programme

India: Leena AI secures $2m seed funding from Snapdeal co-founders, Elad Gil

Indian startups bet big on voice-enabled virtual assistants in regional languages

India: Online funding platform LetsVenture launches startup funding initiative

Ride-hailing firm Get Ride officially launches in Myanmar after securing financing

Warburg-backed Singapore unicorn Trax targets $3b valuation in three years


IPOs & Markets

India: More than half of IPOs listed in 2018 trading below issue price

US-based Coronado launches $950m IPO, Australia’s top coal float in 6 years

HK Exchange said to consider tech asset acquisitions as new strategy

Vietnam: Vietcombank secures approval to increase charter capital by 10%

Mobile & Telco

Axiata arm edotco ends deals to buy tower assets from Pakistan Mobile

India’s NCLT gives its nod to Idea-Vodafone unit merger

India: DoT seeks $232m to clear way for Airtel-Tikona merger

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten unveils plan to fight Amazon, SoftBank

Real Estate

Motilal Oswal’s real estate arm raises $79.26m for latest fund

India Realty Digest: Blackstone-IL&FS, CPPIB-L&T, ITC Hotels, McLeod Russel in news

OUE Lippo Healthcare to acquire stakes in First REIT, manager Bowsprit for $104m

Singapore realty major CapitaLand buys US rental housing assets for $835m

India: Oyo plans to hire 2,020 technology experts in global push

India: Helo goes on spending spree to take on content startup ShareChat

Grab, Uber receive $9.5m slap on the wrist from Singapore competition regulator

India’s Ola in funding talks with Naspers at a valuation of $7-8b

Google tweaks privacy policy for Indian payment app after Paytm complaint

Indonesian authorities taking on aggressive Chinese online lenders

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