Several private equity firms in India have proved very beneficial for early stage funding for startup businesses, especially in agriculture sector.

1. How Do Private Equity Funds in India Work?
In several cases, private equity funds in India are provided by the traditional private equity
firms in India, which are formed by a group of investors, who have pooled their money together
for promoting businesses with their investments. These investments include providing funds for
start-up businesses, which have just entered the market to established and developing
companies, mainly private companies, who first prefer to stay private before possibly taking the
public route at a later stage.
Private equity investment comes in different forms that usually comprises of purchasing equity
securities, providing growth capital, venture capital and mezzanine capital. Each of this
investment type is carried out in specific types of situations in order to reach targeted
objectives. In the realm type of investing, investors usually provide required financing to take
control of companies. Investors prefer to purchase equity securities, which entitles them for an
ownership share in the company.

2. Private equity firms in India sometimes purchase businesses, which are normally called as
leveraged buyouts (LBOs). This type of businesses is generally funded by large debt amount.
These transactions carried out simply means those assets of the businesses being bought
together with the firms doing the procedure of buying will be used as collateral.
As startup businesses are at their initial stage and just have entered the market, they don’t
possess that capital as required at initial stage to run the business smoothly, but later can
prefer to raise capital by issuing bonds or stocks to the public. For such startup or new
ventures, even banks don’t provide financing options, so the owners of such businesses usually
choose to opt for investing in private equity funds in India. The other reason is that start-up
companies usually don’t have substantial earnings and are extremely risky to be provided
funding, but for agencies, the companies might look very promising.
Private equity investing can be made through investments done on the secondary market.
Typically, it has been seen that private equity transactions require investors to stay committed
to oversee their investments for a specified time limit, which can be pretty long. Thus,
secondary market allows investors to come out of their commitments, before the end of the
particular period, which in turn allows other investors to enter.