Private Equity: Page 4

Leadership

With Over 50 Company Portfolios, This Investor Believes in a Family-office Setup

For Damani, if the investor has taken the role of a lead or mentor in the start-up, then it is their duty to be involved in the business

Leadership

VCs & PEs Have Destroyed Ethical Medical Practice Says This Padma Shri in Medicine

From Karan Johan to Tushar Kapoor, surrogacy has given hope to many aspiring parents.

Leadership

Follow The Leader: Dr. Karim El Solh, Co-Founder And CEO, Gulf Capital

Having deployed over half a billion dirhams in technology and e-commerce investments across the GCC, Gulf Capital is one enterprise that is making no secret of its concerted focus on the region's digital economy.

Starting a Business

Starting Early: Benefit or Barrier to Entrepreneurship

"Entrepreneurship is all about exploring the unknown, treading uncharted territories and waiting and delaying do not make it any easier"

Finance

A Three-Pronged Approach To Private Equity Success In The MENA Region

In the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, the global financial crisis and the more recent decline in oil prices have reshaped the region with different economies and dynamics.

Fundraising

The Do's and Don'ts of Private Equity for Entrepreneurs

Here are four things you should do, and four you shouldn't, when it comes to private equity.

Finance

How Lending Mechanisms in Rural & Semi Urban Markets Function

Customers keep shifting in this ecosystem from money lender to BANKS via NBFC's & new set of customers reach out to local money lenders, thereby adding to the market size.

Taxes

Startup Employees Soon Could See Greater Benefits From Stock Options

Proposed changes to the tax code will protect employees from the very real risk of having to pay taxes on stocks they can't sell.

News and Trends

The Abraaj Group Closes First Turkey Fund At $526 Million

Abraaj Turkey Fund I targets "well-managed, mid-sized businesses" operating in sectors such as consumer goods and services, healthcare, financial services, logistics and retail.

Growth Strategies

The How-To: Building Fruitful Relationships Between Entrepreneurs And Private Equity Firms

When it comes to the relationship between entrepreneurs and private equity (PE) firms, it is, more often than not, tensed and tangled.

Fundraising

The SEC Is Itching to Stretch Its Reach Into Venture Deals

Unicorns are a problem for the SEC, and that's a big headache for Silicon Valley and the startup world.

Entrepreneurs

MENA Art Platform Artscoops Gets Funded Through Equity Crowdinvesting On Eureeca

Instead of going for the usual funding routes taken by startups in the Middle East region, Artscoops chose another option to grow its business: crowdinvesting.

Money & Finance

What to Expect When Selling Your Business to a Private Equity Group

From the first meeting to after the ink is dry on the contracts, we'll show you the steps of selling to private equity.

Finance

Six Ways In Which Private Equity Can Catalyze The Growth Of Your Business

As the co-founder and CEO of Gulf Capital, Dr. Karim El Solh can easily give you support for the argument that your SME needs a good private equity firm to scale up.

Money & Finance

How Private Equity Investors Gave This 17-Year-Old Beauty Brand a $100 Million Makeover

When Laura Geller made the emotionally-wrought decision to take on private equity investors, it forever altered the trajectory of the cosmetics company she founded 17 years ago.