Private Equity (PE) investment in SMEs took a sharp dip by almost 68% at US$ US$ 580 million in calendar 2009. It made it difficult for small firms to seek safe financial support for executing their growth plans, reveals a Paper on Private Equity on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The total number of PE deals signed by SMEs in 2009 ...

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SMEs engaged in precision engineering and steel re-rolling can now look forward to new business opportunities as the CII (Northern Region) is planning to organise a buyer-seller meet in collaboration with PSUs for the defence sector. CII stated that north missed the bus of industrial development due to sundry reasons and it has prepared a roadmap to arrange platform for the ...

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At the request of the ministry of micro, small, medium and micro enterprises (MSME), the Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME) has kick-started the process of developing a draft law on insolvency and bankruptcy for such enterprises. Earlier this month it organised a meeting with economic and legal experts on insolvency. The meeting was attended by Sangeeta ...

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NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies and National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) released a study titled A Roadmap of ICT adoption in the Indian manufacturing sector’. The report maps out the ICT adoption in the Indian manufacturing sector in various sectors and benchmarks it against the world standards.

  • The key recommendation and action plans in the report, across each of ...

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16
Apr

CREDIT ACCESS FOR THE START UPS

By Biz2Credit Advisor

One of the major issues for start ups in India is to raise debt financing for the start ups. While the equity financing for the start ups in terms of angel groups and early stage  VC funds in the country is gathering pace , the scene on the debt side is still pretty low. Even the schemes under Credit Guarantee ...

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