India Opportunities
India Opportunities Overview
With its growing demand for both domestic and export consumption, India offers huge potential to investors. Just as BVP saw the long-term opportunity when it entered Silicon Valley in the 1970s, we see a similar opportunity in India driven by the growth in innovation and middle-class prosperity. Since 2004, Bessemer has invested in more than 24 companies in India and established a 14-person, Mumbai-based team.
Bessemer makes a long-term commitment to the companies it backs. We seek to partner with management teams, providing our knowledge and technical expertise along with a global platform to help our portfolio companies succeed in the international market. If you wish to contact BVP's India investment advisory team, feel free to send an email to india@bvp.com.
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Description
Given India’s rich landscape of investment opportunities, Bessemer uses its longstanding tradition of investment “roadmaps”, or areas in which investors develop deep sector expertise, to focus our efforts. Currently, the India investment practice concentrates on three roadmaps:
- Consumer services: The growing Indian middle class seeks education, information, entertainment and medical care. BVP assists talented business founders in growing their enterprises to meet these demands.
- Financial services: India’s sustained, recent growth does not mask the fact that the country remains an under-served financial-services market. Life insurance penetration hovers at less than 5%, equity-market penetration is less than 10%, and fewer than 60% of households have access to banking services. Development of India’s financial- services sector will be a key driver of the country’s future growth. BVP works closely with entrepreneurs to target this opportunity.
- Power and infrastructure: India’s growth has dramatized the need to expand its sources of power and upgrade its infrastructure. Recent spikes in the price of oil have added urgency to the importance of finding non-oil-dependent power sources and improving the efficiency of the physical infrastructure from power transmission to freight handling.
