Event

‘100 Unicorns: Deconstructing India's Changing Corporate Landscape’
Neelkanth Mishra, Harish Damodaran, Rohit Chandra
Friday, 16 April 2021 Add to Calendar 2021-04-16 17:00:00 2021-04-16 18:30:00 Asia/Kolkata ‘100 Unicorns: Deconstructing India's Changing Corporate Landscape’ The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) invites you to a virtual discussion on: ‘100 Unicorns: Deconstructing India's Changing Corporate Landscape’ Speaker:  Neelkanth Mishra, Co-head of APAC Strategy, India Strategist, Credit Suisse Discussants:  Harish Damodaran, Senior Fellow, CPR Rohit Chandra, Visiting Fellow, CPR The sessions will be online via Zoom, please register here. Watch the session online on the CPR Facebook page. In case of any issues and for any queries, please email at communication@cprindia.org About the Discussion  There are two routes that Indian entrepreneurs have traditionally employed to raise capital for starting or expanding their business. The first is community networks and the second is through public offering of equity. The last 15 years or so has, however, witnessed a new phenomenon of promoters accessing equity capital without going public. The funding in this case has come from venture capitalists and private equity investors. This has resulted in a major reshaping of India's corporate landscape, which today has many companies commanding $1 billion-plus valuations while remaining unlisted. In this event, we will hear from one of the keenest observers of Indian business, Neelkanth Mishra, as he discusses Credit Suisse's new report, 100 Unicorns: India's Changing Corporate Landscape. Using the report as a starting point, this event will discuss the kind of companies and ‘new’ entrepreneurs that are riding on this VC/PE-backed boom, even as there is a parallel phenomenon of capital destruction and withering away of firms from the ‘old’ corporate landscape. This will build on themes that CPR had brought out in its October 2020 Seminar issue on state-capital relations.  Online via Zoom
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Online via Zoom

The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) invites you to a virtual discussion on: ‘100 Unicorns: Deconstructing India's Changing Corporate Landscape’

Speaker: 

  • Neelkanth Mishra, Co-head of APAC Strategy, India Strategist, Credit Suisse

Discussants: 

  • Harish Damodaran, Senior Fellow, CPR
  • Rohit Chandra, Visiting Fellow, CPR

The sessions will be online via Zoom, please register here. Watch the session online on the CPR Facebook page.

In case of any issues and for any queries, please email at communication@cprindia.org

About the Discussion 

There are two routes that Indian entrepreneurs have traditionally employed to raise capital for starting or expanding their business. The first is community networks and the second is through public offering of equity. The last 15 years or so has, however, witnessed a new phenomenon of promoters accessing equity capital without going public. The funding in this case has come from venture capitalists and private equity investors. This has resulted in a major reshaping of India's corporate landscape, which today has many companies commanding $1 billion-plus valuations while remaining unlisted. In this event, we will hear from one of the keenest observers of Indian business, Neelkanth Mishra, as he discusses Credit Suisse's new report, 100 Unicorns: India's Changing Corporate Landscape. Using the report as a starting point, this event will discuss the kind of companies and ‘new’ entrepreneurs that are riding on this VC/PE-backed boom, even as there is a parallel phenomenon of capital destruction and withering away of firms from the ‘old’ corporate landscape. This will build on themes that CPR had brought out in its October 2020 Seminar issue on state-capital relations.