Who We Are

The Venture Bay is a consultancy firm specializing in strategic and fund-raising advisory services for start-ups, corporates, and private equity firms.  We are a one-stop boutique providing total solutions to help technology-based entrepreneurs launch and grow their ventures. We have extensive experience in cross-border deals with India, both originating from or targeting France, US, Singapore, and the Middle-East.

Our founders have more than 20 years of experience and we offer practical and actionable advice to entrepreneurs to help them with access to venture capital, business and financial planning, market intelligence, mentoring, deal structuring, recruitment, branding, partner sourcing, and market access.

For more mature companies, we do operational deep-dives and take-on interim management positions, such as CFO, COO, or CTO to ensure that all conditions are meet to execute the promoters' end-game.

Because our Partners are senior executives with extensive operating experience, our perspective is pragmatic, financially astute, and focused on our clients’ most important outcomes.

Because our Partners are succesfull entrepreneurs, our inherent servicing strategy is driven by our entrepreneurial spirit and industrial approach.

Because our Partners were Venture Capitalists and have thouroughly due diligenced hundreds of deals and invested in a few, our advice is no-nonsense straight-talk coming from a team which was “on the other side of the table.”

We work with companies in key segments of the wider technology sector:

Technology: software, web 2.0, cloud computing, mobile devices, e-commerce,security, e-learning

Media: on-line, interactive TV, print

Healthcare: biotechnology, facility management, channel management, purchasing

Renewable energy: project financing, solar energy, industrial efficiency projects

Outsourcing: captive services, strategy, software, back-office

Consumer good & services: branding, primary market research

With a wealth of expertise in these focus areas, our team is committed to helping client companies execute their vision and maximise growth potential. Our extraordinary network of relationships and our knowledge and understanding of the market benefit our clients in the development of partnerships, key reference clients, acquisition targets, exit options and more.

Industry News

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European Deals

Nordic credit remains more readily available

unquote The Nordic countries have enjoyed a lower proportion of all-equity buyouts than the rest of Europe for several months now - highlighting...
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LDC buys Ocean Outdoor from Smedvig

unquote LDC has completed the £35m buyout of UK digital advertising firm Ocean Outdoor from Smedvig Capital. ...
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Norvestor backs Sortera MBO

unquote Norvestor Equity has backed the MBO of Swedish waste handling business Sortera Skandinavien. ...
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FSI Régions backs Arcancil Paris MBO

unquote FSI Régions has invested €500,000 in the management buyout of Arcancil Paris.
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CBPE buys minority stake in IVF clinic

unquote CBPE Capital has bought a minority stake in London-based Assisted Reproduction & Gynaecology Centre (ARGC). ...
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EQT exits Dako for DKK 12.8bn

unquote EQT Partners has sold Danish cancer diagnostics company Dako to NYSE-listed Agilent Technologies for DKK 12.8bn. ...
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Montagu's Host Europe buys Mesh Digital

unquote Montagu-owned Host Europe Group (HEG), a London-based web hosting business, has acquired domain registration services provider Mesh Digital....
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Swander Pace supports Cambrian Pet Foods

unquote US private equity firm Swander Pace Capital has backed Welsh pet food firm Cambrian Pet Foods. ...
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Indian Deals

Warburg tops $5B mark for fund

Warburg Pincus LLC WP.UL has raised more than $5 billion (3 billion pounds) in just over seven months for its 11th global private equity fund, a major step on the way toward its $12 billion target, people...
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Goldman moves to pre-empt Volcker

  Goldman Sachs has begun shedding some of its investments ahead of upcoming rules that will limit banks’ ability to keep money in hedge funds and private equity. The US bank redeemed about...
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Panasonic acquires 76.2% stake in Bangalore-based Firepro

Panasonic Corporation is acquiring 76.2 per cent stake in AIG and Standard Chartered PE-backed Firepro Systems Pvt Ltd, the company has said...
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Gifting startup Giftcart.com receives $1M as seed capital from TekCorp

Delhi-based Giftcart Ecommerce Pvt Ltd has received $1 million as seed capital from TekCorp. Giftcart, a portfolio company of TekCorp, has...
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Acumen Fund Invests $2M in BASIX Krishi

Social venture capital investor Acumen Fund has made an equity investment of Rs 9 crore ($2 million) into Read More...

Education startup Limberlink raises $2M from Accel Partners

Bangalore-based education services startup Limberlink Technologies Pvt Ltd has raised around $2 million from Accel Partners, according to sources...
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Sequoia-backed Moolchand Healthcare unveils $93M expansion plan

Delhi-based Moolchand Healthcare is planning to invest Rs 500 crore ($93 million) to expand its hospital network through a mix of organic...
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