Quadria Capital - Healthcare Private Equity Fund in India - Singapore and Asia-Pacific Region

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to impact the business all across the world, the funding by private equity firms in India is going downward. There is a significant decrease in private equity funding in India owning to coronavirus outbreak as investors have put a hold on their plans of funding due to fear of economic fallout in combating the pandemic. According to a recent report the amount of private equity investment has been declining over the last few months and it has reached 40.3% in March. Further, foreign investors are also pulling back their money. March month has been very sluggish due to pandemic with private equity investment seeing a drop of more than 50% compared to February 2020.   Owning to the widespread uncertainty and economic slowdown due to the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown implemented to contain it, investors have put a hold on their investments and took a wait-and-watch approach to assess the situation. Even the top private equity firm...

Despite continuous misgivings, private equity firms are playing an important role in the Indian healthcare system. Firms have increased their investment to alleviate the sick and ailing sector to provide better healthcare service to the public. Data shows that investment in the healthcare sector has quadrupled in 2019 compared to 2018. These investments were aimed at hospital operations, providing better facilities, medical equipment, pharma, and the making of new hospital buildings. Private hospitals think that as the number of patients is increasing and also their income level, they will be willing to pay even higher fees for better service. And hospitals can only obtain efficiency through better equipment and the latest technology. The opportunity in the Indian healthcare sector is very vast. Indian primary healthcare sector is worth millions of dollars and it is increasing at the rate of 25% every year. This fact will persuade some of the Top Private Equity Fir...

Private equity firms and venture capitalists invested heavily in healthcare and healthcare technology companies in the year 2019. According to available data, investment grew by 16.3 percent in 2019 to $3.62 billion. Most of these investments were in the healthcare domain. The investment is still taking place despite the economic slowdown, and it is continuing to remain the same in 2020 also. Healthcare tech companies have been the major beneficiaries of these surge in investments with 55 deals worth $2.12 billion. This was double the deal signed in the year 2018. One thing to notice here is that this surge is despite an economic slowdown in the country. According to industry experts, the healthcare sector is unaffected due to economic sluggishness because healthcare is a necessity. Hence, top private equity firms in India and venture capitalists will continue to invest their money into the Indian healthcare system.  India is home to 1.3 billion people and ther...