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Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Bestvantage Investments Launches ‘Mergerbay' to Unlock the Growth Potential of Mid-Sized Companies
Mumbai, 7 August, 2025 – Bestvantage Investments, a strategic investment and advisory firm, has announced the launch of Mergerbay, a dedicated mergers and acquisitions (M&A) platform aimed at solving a critical bottleneck faced by India's mid-sized companies that is scaling beyond profitability into structured, sustainable growth. The platform enables investors to engage in vetted M&A opportunities with credible, fast-scaling companies, supported by strategic partners, governance transformation, and growth capital. While India's startup ecosystem and large corporates have benefited from investor attention, policy support, and capital access, a wide segment of profitable mid-sized companies remains stuck in a structural gap. These businesses are too large for SME IPO platforms but not yet ready (financially or structurally) for mainboard listings on exchanges such as BSE or NSE. This segment, often referred to as the 'missing middle' of Indian capital markets, lacks the institutional framework needed to scale effectively. Mergerbay Mergerbay aims to bridge this gap by offering a comprehensive growth architecture tailored for unlisted, mid-sized companies. It brings together services such as strategic acquisitions, minority stake sales, industry consolidation, governance restructuring, capital readiness, and transaction execution under a single platform. The focus is on helping operationally strong but structurally constrained companies transform into institutional-grade enterprises ready for their next stage of evolution. 'In India, there are hundreds of mid-sized companies that are profitable, compliant, and full of potential but stuck due to lack of access to structured capital, governance alignment, and the right is designed to act as the growth engine for these companies by converting their compliance into competitiveness and profitability into scale.' said Raman Sharma, Founder and CEO of Bestvantage Investments. Why Mergerbay Matters: For many mid-sized Indian companies, M&A is becoming a practical path to scale, not just an exit route. Platforms like Mergerbay offer much-needed structure to this space by enabling: Multiply Your Expansion: Partnering with a strategic buyer can accelerate market entry giving companies access to new customers, suppliers, and geographies without the time or cost of building from scratch. Revenue Growth Through Synergies: M&A deals often unlock cross-selling opportunities and shared customer value by combining product lines or distribution networks leading to faster revenue growth. Growth Capital: A well-structured merger can improve a company's ability to raise larger amounts of equity or debt at better terms, and in some cases, support eventual listing on mainboard exchanges. Cost Efficiency: Merged entities can streamline operations, eliminate redundancies, and benefit from economies of scale ultimately improving margins and operational performance. Boost Brand Credibility: Active participation in M&A signals strong governance and institutional readiness, often enhancing a company's appeal to investors, partners, and top-tier clients. Built as more than a conventional M&A advisory, Mergerbay has already established tie-ups with industrial houses, family-owned businesses, institutional investors, and global funds interested in unlocking value from this underrepresented market segment. It is sector-agnostic but currently active in electric vehicles, agri-tech, logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare are among its initial focus areas. According to Bestvantage, while over 100 SME IPOs were recorded in FY24 many in the ₹100–200 crore market capitalization range most lack long-term scale pathways due to fragmented deal-making and limited governance transformation. Mergerbay aims to address this by offering a seamless transition from being 'IPO-ready' to becoming a fully structured, listed, and investible company. With the Indian capital markets entering a new phase marked by growing retail participation, foreign portfolio interest, and a government-led push for consolidation, Mergerbay arrives at a time when mid-sized businesses have the most to gain if provided with the right tools, partners, and platform. Website: About Bestvantage Investments Bestvantage Investments is a boutique investment advisory firm that connects high-potential startups with strategic investors across India and the Middle East. Founded by Raman Sharma, Bestvantage specializes in deal sourcing, investment structuring, and capital raising for early to growth-stage companies. With a strong network of family offices, venture funds, and institutional investors, the firm enables businesses to unlock growth opportunities through strategic capital partnerships. Note to readers: This article is part of HT's paid consumer connect initiative and is independently created by the brand. 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Business Standard
05-08-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Bestvantage Investments Launches 'Mergerbay' to Unlock the Growth Potential of India's Mid-Sized Companies
VMPL Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 5: Bestvantage Investments, a strategic investment and advisory firm, has announced the launch of Mergerbay, a dedicated mergers and acquisitions (M & A) platform aimed at solving a critical bottleneck faced by India's mid-sized companies that is scaling beyond profitability into structured, sustainable growth. The platform enables investors to engage in vetted M & A opportunities with credible, fast-scaling companies, supported by strategic partners, governance transformation, and growth capital. While India's startup ecosystem and large corporates have benefited from investor attention, policy support, and capital access, a wide segment of profitable mid-sized companies remains stuck in a structural gap. These businesses are too large for SME IPO platforms but not yet ready (financially or structurally) for mainboard listings on exchanges such as BSE or NSE. This segment, often referred to as the "missing middle" of Indian capital markets, lacks the institutional framework needed to scale effectively. Mergerbay aims to bridge this gap by offering a comprehensive growth architecture tailored for unlisted, mid-sized companies. It brings together services such as strategic acquisitions, minority stake sales, industry consolidation, governance restructuring, capital readiness, and transaction execution under a single platform. The focus is on helping operationally strong but structurally constrained companies transform into institutional-grade enterprises ready for their next stage of evolution. "In India, there are hundreds of mid-sized companies that are profitable, compliant, and full of potential but stuck due to lack of access to structured capital, governance alignment, and the right is designed to act as the growth engine for these companies by converting their compliance into competitiveness and profitability into scale." said Raman Sharma, Founder and CEO of Bestvantage Investments. Why Mergerbay Matters: For many mid-sized Indian companies, M & A is becoming a practical path to scale, not just an exit route. Platforms like Mergerbay offer much-needed structure to this space by enabling: Multiply Your Expansion: Partnering with a strategic buyer can accelerate market entry giving companies access to new customers, suppliers, and geographies without the time or cost of building from scratch. Revenue Growth Through Synergies: M & A deals often unlock cross-selling opportunities and shared customer value by combining product lines or distribution networks leading to faster revenue growth. Growth Capital: A well-structured merger can improve a company's ability to raise larger amounts of equity or debt at better terms, and in some cases, support eventual listing on mainboard exchanges. Cost Efficiency: Merged entities can streamline operations, eliminate redundancies, and benefit from economies of scale ultimately improving margins and operational performance. Boost Brand Credibility: Active participation in M & A signals strong governance and institutional readiness, often enhancing a company's appeal to investors, partners, and top-tier clients. Built as more than a conventional M & A advisory, Mergerbay has already established tie-ups with industrial houses, family-owned businesses, institutional investors, and global funds interested in unlocking value from this underrepresented market segment. It is sector-agnostic but currently active in electric vehicles, agri-tech, logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare are among its initial focus areas. According to Bestvantage, while over 100 SME IPOs were recorded in FY24 many in the ₹100-200 crore market capitalization range most lack long-term scale pathways due to fragmented deal-making and limited governance transformation. Mergerbay aims to address this by offering a seamless transition from being 'IPO-ready' to becoming a fully structured, listed, and investible company. With the Indian capital markets entering a new phase marked by growing retail participation, foreign portfolio interest, and a government-led push for consolidation, Mergerbay arrives at a time when mid-sized businesses have the most to gain if provided with the right tools, partners, and platform. Website: About Bestvantage Investments Bestvantage Investments is a boutique investment advisory firm that connects high-potential startups with strategic investors across India and the Middle East. Founded by Raman Sharma, Bestvantage specializes in deal sourcing, investment structuring, and capital raising for early to growth-stage companies. With a strong network of family offices, venture funds, and institutional investors, the firm enables businesses to unlock growth opportunities through strategic capital partnerships.
The Wire
05-08-2025
- Business
- The Wire
Bestvantage Investments Launches ‘Mergerbay' to Unlock the Growth Potential of India's Mid-Sized Companies
Mumbai, 5 August, 2025 – Bestvantage Investments, a strategic investment and advisory firm, has announced the launch of Mergerbay, a dedicated mergers and acquisitions (M&A) platform aimed at solving a critical bottleneck faced by India's mid-sized companies that is scaling beyond profitability into structured, sustainable growth. The platform enables investors to engage in vetted M&A opportunities with credible, fast-scaling companies, supported by strategic partners, governance transformation, and growth capital. While India's startup ecosystem and large corporates have benefited from investor attention, policy support, and capital access, a wide segment of profitable mid-sized companies remains stuck in a structural gap. These businesses are too large for SME IPO platforms but not yet ready (financially or structurally) for mainboard listings on exchanges such as BSE or NSE. This segment, often referred to as the 'missing middle' of Indian capital markets, lacks the institutional framework needed to scale effectively. Mergerbay aims to bridge this gap by offering a comprehensive growth architecture tailored for unlisted, mid-sized companies. It brings together services such as strategic acquisitions, minority stake sales, industry consolidation, governance restructuring, capital readiness, and transaction execution under a single platform. The focus is on helping operationally strong but structurally constrained companies transform into institutional-grade enterprises ready for their next stage of evolution. 'In India, there are hundreds of mid-sized companies that are profitable, compliant, and full of potential but stuck due to lack of access to structured capital, governance alignment, and the right is designed to act as the growth engine for these companies by converting their compliance into competitiveness and profitability into scale.' said Raman Sharma, Founder and CEO of Bestvantage Investments. Why Mergerbay Matters: For many mid-sized Indian companies, M&A is becoming a practical path to scale, not just an exit route. Platforms like Mergerbay offer much-needed structure to this space by enabling: Multiply Your Expansion: Partnering with a strategic buyer can accelerate market entry giving companies access to new customers, suppliers, and geographies without the time or cost of building from scratch. Revenue Growth Through Synergies: M&A deals often unlock cross-selling opportunities and shared customer value by combining product lines or distribution networks leading to faster revenue growth. Growth Capital: A well-structured merger can improve a company's ability to raise larger amounts of equity or debt at better terms, and in some cases, support eventual listing on mainboard exchanges. Cost Efficiency: Merged entities can streamline operations, eliminate redundancies, and benefit from economies of scale ultimately improving margins and operational performance. Boost Brand Credibility: Active participation in M&A signals strong governance and institutional readiness, often enhancing a company's appeal to investors, partners, and top-tier clients. Built as more than a conventional M&A advisory, Mergerbay has already established tie-ups with industrial houses, family-owned businesses, institutional investors, and global funds interested in unlocking value from this underrepresented market segment. It is sector-agnostic but currently active in electric vehicles, agri-tech, logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare are among its initial focus areas. According to Bestvantage, while over 100 SME IPOs were recorded in FY24 many in the ₹100–200 crore market capitalization range most lack long-term scale pathways due to fragmented deal-making and limited governance transformation. Mergerbay aims to address this by offering a seamless transition from being 'IPO-ready' to becoming a fully structured, listed, and investible company. With the Indian capital markets entering a new phase marked by growing retail participation, foreign portfolio interest, and a government-led push for consolidation, Mergerbay arrives at a time when mid-sized businesses have the most to gain if provided with the right tools, partners, and platform. About Bestvantage Investments Bestvantage Investments is a boutique investment advisory firm that connects high-potential startups with strategic investors across India and the Middle East. Founded by Raman Sharma, Bestvantage specializes in deal sourcing, investment structuring, and capital raising for early to growth-stage companies. With a strong network of family offices, venture funds, and institutional investors, the firm enables businesses to unlock growth opportunities through strategic capital partnerships. (Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with NRDPL and PTI takes no editorial responsibility for the same.). PTI This is an auto-published feed from PTI with no editorial input from The Wire.
Hindustan Times
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Ludhiana: Students battle postponement, errors amid PU exam confusion
Panjab University (PU) students are reeling under exam stress as repeated cancellations and last-minute postponements of semester papers have left them frustrated and mentally exhausted. The confusion has largely emerged from a mismatch between the New Education Policy (NEP) and the non-NEP syllabus structures, with question papers often not aligning with the content students were taught. One glaring example was the BA 6th semester Fine Arts paper, originally scheduled for June 5, which was suddenly postponed to June 11. Similarly, the BA 2nd semester exams for Elective English, Hindi and Punjabi, first set for May 26, were cancelled and held again on May 31. The non-NEP Punjabi Compulsory exam, scheduled for June 10, was pushed to June 14. Raman Sharma, head of the Punjabi department at Arya College, Ludhiana, said, 'Private students appearing for Punjabi exam faced immense difficulty because they received NEP-based question papers despite following the old syllabus.' Further complicating matters, MA-Political Science students who appeared for the Foreign Policy of India exam on June 10, reported that the paper had jumbled units, and one section was entirely out of syllabus. 'We gave our best, but if grace marks are not awarded, we will suffer,' said a concerned student. An educator, Rohit, from Ludhiana mentioned that the representations demanding either grace marks or re-examination have been submitted, but the university has yet to respond. The university's academic calendar has also been disrupted. Officially, summer vacations began on June 1, but due to the rescheduled exams, students are still caught in academic uncertainty. 'We mentally prepare for one exam, only to be told it is postponed. It is harassment,' a student shared. Brij Bhushan Goyal from SCD Government College's Alumni Association said, 'Higher education is collapsing. Students' voices are being ignored while officials remain indifferent.' PU controller of examinations Jagat Bhushan admitted that the fault lies with those who prepare the sealed and confidential question papers. 'Even the university struggles with rescheduling. But steps will be taken to avoid such issues in future. Moreover, as the NEP is still in its early stages, it will take time to be implemented effectively and for everyone to adapt to the changes,' he added.
Observer
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Observer
Danger grows as India, Pakistan appear to escalate the clash
India and Pakistan appeared to be dangerously escalating their armed confrontation Thursday, as both countries said their military sites had come under attack, and heavy shelling and strikes were reported overnight on each side of their border. The military faceoff began Wednesday, when India struck several sites in Pakistani territory — its deepest strikes inside Pakistan in decades — in retaliation for a deadly terrorist attack two weeks before. As a sign of the international alarm that the conflict could spin out of control, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with leaders from both countries on Thursday and emphasized the need for 'immediate de-escalation,' according to State Department accounts of the calls. India and Pakistan both continued to claim that they were not seeking an escalation in their military clash. But the reality on the ground indicated that the two nuclear-armed countries were not yet ready to take the off-ramps from their boiling tensions that had appeared to be taking shape a day before. The Indian government on Thursday said it had thwarted Pakistani attempts to unleash drones and missiles at Indian military targets in more than a dozen cities and towns, many of them home to air force bases. India said it had responded by striking Pakistan's air defense systems and radars close to the city of Lahore — the kind of blow that often causes a military conflict to intensify, analysts said. Pakistan accused India of continuing what it called illegal aggression and said its forces had shot down more than two dozen Indian drones that entered Pakistan's airspace. In the rapidly developing situation, the claims from both sides could not be independently verified. Late Thursday, some parts of Jammu, an Indian city of about a million people that is part of the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, were under blackouts. The sounds of blasts and sirens could be heard across the city, as shells and drones flew overhead, according to eyewitness accounts. 'Residents are in panic and staying indoors,' said Raman Sharma, a civil activist and resident of Jammu. India's defense ministry, in a post on the social platform X, said military bases in Jammu and two other cities, Pathankot and Udhampur, which are close to India's disputed Kashmir border with Pakistan, were 'targeted by Pakistan using missiles and drones.' Panic also spread during an evening cricket match in Dharamsala, not far from the area facing heavy shelling, where a crowd of more than 10,000 people had to be evacuated and the game called off.
