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Mumbai to host eighth News Corp VCCircle Food & Agri Investment Summit
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Saturday, 22 October, 2016, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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fiogf49gjkf0d News Corp VCCircle, India’s leading source of start-up and private equity news, data and information, and an integral part of News Corp, the global diversified media, news, education and information services group, will host the eighth News Corp VCCircle Food and Agri Investment Summit 2016 at Mumbai’s Taj Land’s End on October 25, 2016.
Objective of the event
The summit, which is a confluence of leading Indian food and agricultural entrepreneurs, new age food and beverage innovators and members of the private equity (PE)/venture capital (VC) investor community aims to shed light on the investment outlook for food and agri businesses in India, besides helping identify growth drivers and evolving trends in the sector as well as exploring strategies for scaling up, sustaining growth and maximising returns.
Speakers
Bringing forth the views of the private equity community pertaining to quality of assets, investment thesis, growth and return expectations and market challenges in the food, agri and consumer business space would be leading private equity players and venture capitalists such as Girish Nadkarni, partner, IDFC Alternatives; Srini Vudayagiri, partner, Peepul Capital; Amit Jain, managing director, Blackstone Advisors India Private Ltd; Abhay Pandey, managing director, Sequoia Capital; Rakesh Sony, director, Proterra Investment Advisors; Tarun Khanna, partner, CX Partners; Mragank Jain, director, Standard Chartered Private Equity, and Manish Mehta, managing director, Samara Capital.
Representing food and agri businesses at the summit would be Anuj Rakyan, managing director, Raw Pressary; Prashant Parameswaran, managing director, Kottaram Agro Foods Pvt Ltd; Sadananda Maiya, founder and managing director, Maiyas Beverages and Foods Pvt Ltd; Viraj Bahl, founder and managing director, Veeba Food Services Pvt Ltd, and Nikhil Sen, managing director, Unibic Biscuits.
Agenda
There will be five panel discussions, The topics are as follows:
Promoter and a private equity’s perspective of scaling up food businesses
Revisiting business models adopted by food services to sustain growth
Investment opportunities in packaged foods
Making agri-businesses investor-friendly, and
New-age food companies
Mangesh Pathak, partner, Ambit Pragma Ventures and Gaurav Jain, managing director, ColdEx, will be part of a question and answer session on the role of cold chain development in evolving the food and agri value chain.
Professional services firm Alvarez and Marsal is the knowledge partner for the summit. Angshuman Bhattacharya, managing director, Alvarez and Marsal, will deliver the keynote address with a focus on investment trends in the dairy, snacks, biscuits, condiments and beverages segments. Other partners include Verist Law, Mahindra Finance, IDFC Alternatives Ltd, TEFLA’s, o3 Capital, SMC Capitals Ltd and StarAgri Finance.
“Factors like too many start-ups, too few original ideas, too many free dollies, too much under-pricing and too many bleeding account sheets have made investors rethink and realign their evaluation process of food and agri businesses,” said Nita Kapoor, head, India New Ventures, News Corp and chief executive officer, News Corp VCCircle.
“The year 2015 witnessed almost 153 companies receiving investment in tune of $1,154 million, while the deal values even in the second half of 2016 are still to reach the halfway mark compared to last year,” she added.
“Given this backdrop, our event will highlight the drivers for the food, agri and consumer business for value creation that would facilitate investments into this space,” Kapoor stated.
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