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The VCCircle Network founded in 2005, is India’s leading information services group with presence in online business news, data, events and training for private equity and venture capital fund managers, entrepreneurs, investment bankers, corporate executives and lawyers. The Network, which currently employs about 80 people, is owned by the New Delhi-headquartered Mosaic Media Ventures Private Limited with offices in Noida in Delhi-National Capital Region, Mumbai and Bangalore.

History
VCCircle was founded in 2005 by Sahad P.V. as a blog focused on venture capital and private equity. The site soon expanded its coverage of Indian business to a larger audience of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors of all hues, legal professionals and bankers. The VCCircle Network also ventured into financial data, events and financial training to become a holistic solution provider for the Indian investment and corporate ecosystem.

Business Verticals
VCCircle.com It is a leading news website read by an influential global community of deal makers and entrepreneurs for trusted news and incisive analysis related to Indian investments, M&A, venture capital, private equity, investment banking, public equity, and innovative business models. VCCircle.com’s readership comprises of CXO level professionals and entrepreneurs such as CEOs, directors, corporate development and strategy heads, M&A heads, corporate finance departments, fund managers, investment bankers, financial advisers, and policy makers.

Techcircle.in The website, launched in February 2011, is dedicated to covering India’s technology start-up ecosystem. Techcircle.in covers major technology trends, news and views in areas such as consumer internet, enterprise software, software-as-a-service, consumer technology, gadgets and mobile enterprises.

VCCEdge It is India’s most comprehensive financial data platform tracking private equity, venture capital, public offerings, debt and M&A deal data; offering private and public company financials, directories of private equity funds, law firms, investment banks, auditors, incubators, and corporate professionals.

VCCEdge offers detailed information on M&A, private equity, venture capital and debt transactions with detailed transaction terms, structures, deal amounts and valuations. It also contains corporate information such as financials and shareholding structures of all companies involved in these transactions including target companies, investors and advisers. The hosted platform provides information on demand and helps reduce research time, allowing users to spend more time on analysis. It has easy to use screening tools that helps users search and obtain analytics.

VCCEdge also publishes league tables of financial and legal advisers for both private equity and M&A transactions in India.

VCCircle Events They are India’s most attended, high quality, executive-level conferences in the investment space, serving the needs of the professional investment community, entrepreneurs and corporate. The forums have been supported by its members, which include an elite group of private equity funds, investment banks, and other professional services firms, besides corporates and startups. VCCircle’s forums have brought together institutional investors, entrepreneurs, bankers, lawyers, managers and consultants in controlled settings to enable them freely to share investment ideas and solutions. About 15,000 high quality delegates and 1500 eminent speakers have attended these conferences.

VCCircle Training VCCircle Training offers learning & development solutions to corporate professionals, investment bankers, private and venture capital professionals, law firms, consultants and other financial firms.

The division has conducted several one day and two day workshops on corporate finance, valuations, corporate treasury management, foreign exchange regulations, foreign direct investment rules, and other regulatory issues. The training sessions are conducted by either industry stalwarts or leading global academicians like [Aswath Damodaran], Professor of Finance at the [Stern School of Business] at [New York University].

Recent Updates

 * In May 2012, VCCircle.com went pay . It is the first business news website in the country to go pay.
 * VCCircle launched its Award in the year 2012 which recognised the best performing PE/VC-backed companies in various sectors and also law firms and investment banks who have done the maximum number of deals in a given year.
 * The second edition of VCCircle Awards was held in February 2013.
 * The VCCircle Network got Demo, the most preferred launch platform of the world to India. The event was held on 20th & 21st March 2013 in Bangalore.