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‘We are defined by the choices we make…’: Peak XV downsizes growth fund in India by 16%

Business TodayBusiness Today · 9m ago
‘We are defined by the choices we make…’: Peak XV downsizes growth fund in India by 16%
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- Peak XV Partners, formerly known as Sequoia Capital India, is downsizing its fund in India by 16% after achieving $1 billion in exits this year. - Despite the downsizing, Peak XV remains strongly committed to investing in India and South East Asia. - The venture capital firm is making strategic changes to better serve its multi-decade time horizon. - Peak XV is focusing on measured investments in its growth fund while maintaining its support for seed and venture stage opportunities. - The decision to downsize is intended to benefit the founders and limited partners in the long term. - Peak XV has a successful track record, managing over $9 billion in capital and investing in more than 400 companies across various sectors.

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Peak XV downsizes its $2.85 billion fund by 16% a year after Sequoia US-India split

Economic TimesEconomic Times · 9m ago
Peak XV downsizes its $2.85 billion fund by 16% a year after Sequoia US-India split
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- Peak XV Partners, a venture capital firm, is downsizing its $2.85 billion fund by 16%. - The fund reduction is primarily in the growth-stage allocation, with a total reduction of $465 million. - Peak XV is also cutting down the management fee from 2.5% to 2% of the overall fund size. - The carry, which is the profits from exits, will be reduced to 20% for growth investments, but will increase to 30% if a fund achieves a 3x distribution to paid-in capital. - These changes will be applicable to all ongoing growth funds of Peak XV Partners and previous Sequoia Capital India vehicles. - The decision to downsize the fund size was driven by slow deployment of growth capital over the past two years.

Peak XV slashes fund size, cuts fees on some growth funds

LivemintLivemint · 9m ago
Peak XV slashes fund size, cuts fees on some growth funds
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- Peak XV Partners, formerly part of Sequoia Capital, plans to reduce its $2.85 billion growth fund by 16%, or $465 million, in a move to take a more measured approach to investments. - The growth fund, raised in 2022, will now hold approximately $2.39 billion. - Peak XV will tie part of its carried interest to the distribution of profits in its growth and multi-stage funds, while seed and venture fund economics will remain unchanged. - The decision reflects the lack of high-quality investment opportunities in the current market, particularly from companies that raised capital at inflated valuations during the pandemic. - Peak XV is also reducing its management fees to 2% on three growth and four multi-stage funds, and cutting its carried interest to 20% to better align with the interests of its founders and limited partners.

Shraeyansh Thakur resigns from Peak XV after a decade

EntrackrEntrackr · 4m ago
Shraeyansh Thakur resigns from Peak XV after a decade
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Shraeyansh Thakur resigns from Peak XV after a decade During his tenure at Peak XV, he was board member and observer for startups like Atlys, Meesho, Cars24, ApnaMart, Unacademy, Zetwerk, Urban Piper, Bijnis, among others. Shraeyansh Thakur, an investor at Peak XV Partners, has resigned after nearly 10 years at the venture capital firm, sources told Entrackr. This marks the fifth high-profile exit from Peak XV in the past year. “Shraeyansh Thakur has decided to quit the firm and is likely to launch his own venture soon,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. Queries sent to Peak XV and Thakur did not elicit any response until publication of the story. "After an incredible 9+ years at Peak XV / Sequoia India, I have decided to embark on a new entrepreneurial journey. The next 10 years are going to be India’s golden digital decade and our founders now have true belief to create the world’s best companies from India," said Thakur in a Linkedin post. Last month, Peak XV’s managing partners, Shailesh Lakhani and Abheek Anand, stepped down after serving for more than a decade. Prior to that, Anandamoy Roychowdhary, a partner at Peak XV's Surge, departed after over 11 years at the firm, while Piyush Gupta, then Managing Director, left after seven years to launch his secondary-focused fund, Kenro Capital. Meanwhile, Rishen Kapoor, co-founder and CEO of SaaS startup Toplyne, has returned to Peak XV Partners after his three-and-a-half-year-old venture shut down. In October last year, Peak XV reduced its $2.85 billion fund by 16% as part of a strategic shift towards investing in a more measured manner amid elevated valuations in the Indian market. This development came a year after Sequoia Capital rebranded as Peak XV.

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