VCCircle, founded in 2005, is an Indian information services group with presence in online business news, data, events and training for

private equity In the field of finance, the term private equity (PE) refers to investment funds, usually limited partnerships (LP), which buy and restructure financially weak companies that produce goods and provide services. A private-equity fund is both a typ ...

and

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth poten ...

fund managers, entrepreneurs, investment bankers, corporate executives and lawyers. It currently employs about 100 people and is owned by the

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-headquartered Mosaic Media Ventures Private Limited with offices in

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in Delhi-National Capital Region,

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and

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. The company was acquired in 2015 by

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, and later by HT Media Limited in 2020. Leslie D'Monte joined as the Executive Editor of VCCircle and TechCircle in August, 2021.

History

VCCircle was founded in 2005 by Sahad P.V. as a blog focused on

and

. The site expanded its coverage of Indian business to a larger audience of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors, legal professionals and bankers. VCCircle offers insight and opinion on various business happenings. Since its acquisition by HT Media Limited, VCCircle started working alongside Mint, the second largest business daily in India. The company routinely publishes exclusive articles on the venture capital and the private equity community on its website. Some of these articles are also published in the Mint. In May 2012, VCCircle.com introduced a paywall. It is the first business news website in

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

to introduce a paywall. VCCircle announced an award in 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 awards was held in February 2013. VCCircle Network got the DEMO conference to start an event in

. The event was held on 20 and 21 March 2013 in

. The third edition of VCCircle Awards was held in February 2014. The fourth edition of VCCircle Awards was held in February 2015. The VCCircle Network was acquired by

in March 2015. In 2020,

HT Media HT Media is an Indian mass media company based in Delhi, India. It has holdings in print, electronic and digital media. HT Media's flagship newspaper is the ''Hindustan Times'', the second most widely read English newspaper in India after ''The ...

tookover as the owner of VCCircle from News Corp.

References

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