A German mass media company is looking forward to deploy $200-250 million in the startup ecosystem of India for next four years. Three years after it made its first investment in India, the firm later made 30 deals here.

Bertelsmann’s Investment

“We made our first investment in 2013-end in India. If we include the commitments that we have lined up for the next 12 months for deals that we have an outlook for, the deployment would be about $200 million,” said Pankaj Makkar, MD of Bertelsmann India investments. He further said that “This is just for our follow-on investments and new deals will be over and above this”.

About the Indian Venture Capital Ecosystem

In the course of recent years the Indian investment environment has been confronting a sizeable deficiency of capital for organizations at the development arrange, making it less demanding for worldwide assets and strategies, particularly Chinese and Japanese, to make sizeable interests in these phases in India.

Some of Bertelsmann’s best wagers in the Indian web biological community incorporate furniture commercial center Pepperfry, internet loaning stage Lendingkart, music spilling application Saavn, and budget hotel chain Treebo which raised Rs 226 crore ($34 million) in its Series-C round a week ago to ET.

Bertelsmann’s Focus on Fintech and Edu-tech

Bertelsmann is likewise preparing its attention on fintech and edu-tech. Training joins medicinal services as a part that financial specialists are gradually warming up to, given its capability to shore up sizeable returns over drawn out stretches of time.

As the vital speculation arm of Bertelsmann SE and Co. KGaA, BII be that as it may, will not look at media plays for strategic buy-outs for Bll; its India portfolio gives it an extremely strong internal rate between 30-40%. But with only three years of deal making in the country, its first set of exits is still 12-14 months away.