Mumbai: Motilal Oswal Alternate on Monday introduced elevating ₹8,500 crore from non-public fairness traders, and the fund will probably be deployed as development capital throughout firms.
The fund witnessed robust participation from each world and home traders, surpassing its preliminary goal of ₹6,500 crore and finishing the method inside 10 months from the fund launch in mid-April 2025.
“Motilal Oswal Alternates, one of many pioneers of alternate investing in India, is happy to announce fairness the ultimate shut of its fifth non-public fund, India Enterprise Excellence Fund V (IBEF V/Fund V), at its onerous cap in February 2026, making it the biggest within the agency’s non-public fairness historical past,” Motilal Oswal Alternate (MOA) mentioned in a launch.
That is the primary time that cash has been raised from overseas traders in such a giant quantum, firm executives mentioned, including {that a} bulk of the primary 4 funds have been from home traders.
The overseas traders embody IFC and Adams Road Companions, whereas domestically, main banks, insurers and household places of work have proven curiosity.
Indian enterprise is hungry for capital, and we might reside to again firms which maintain the promise to have long-term relevance, Rohit Mantri, managing director and co-head of MOA, instructed reporters.
The subscriptions occurred in a short time, and the entity needed to “shut the faucet” due to its curiosity for optimum measurement, which might ship higher returns, he mentioned.
It is going to make investments USD 40-100 million in as much as 14 firms over the 7-8 yr fund cycle and goal an inside charge of return of over 20 per cent on the investments, he mentioned.
These will probably be largely minority bets, and round a fifth of the fund could get deployed for majority stakes, Mantri mentioned, including that 20 per cent of the fund is already deployed and the identical will probably be taken to 35 per cent by the top of March.
Like the sooner funds, the brand new platform can even concentrate on shopper, healthcare, monetary providers and area of interest manufacturing, he mentioned.
Over 90 per cent of the bets will probably be on profit-making enterprises, executives mentioned, including that up to now, they’ve averted hospitals regardless of healthcare being a key theme and likewise fintechs regardless of the concentrate on monetary providers.