Equirus

We are delighted to announce that our client, London-based Datavid, has been acquired by C5i, a leading enterprise AI & Analytics firm.

Datavid’s expertise in data engineering and AI helps organisations transform fragmented, unstructured, and siloed data into trusted, AI-ready architectures using advanced data and graph engineering, knowledge graph design, and semantic modelling. Datavid has strong delivery team across the United States, Romania and, India.

Equirus is proud to have acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Datavid and its shareholders on this transaction.

After a gruelling two-year correction, India’s private capital market is shedding its skin to prioritise real distributions over paper gains.

Sharing perspective with AsianInvestor, Bhavesh Shah, Head – Investment Banking, Equirus Capital, highlights how investor behaviour is evolving in this new phase.

“The capital, while abundant, is selective, with a sharper quality bias and rigour in valuations.” He also highlighted growing investor interest in AI-related themes. “Pharma and BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) will be the other sectors that will see some action,” he added.

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India private capital moves past correction into new era | Alternatives | AsianInvestor After a gruelling two-year correction, India’s private capital market is shedding its skin to prioritise real distributions over paper gains.

In an authored article with Mint, Sandeep Walunj, Chief Growth Officer – Equirus, shares his perspective on Specialised Investment Funds (SIFs) and their evolving role between traditional mutual funds and alternative investment products.

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SIFs explained: Where these new funds fit in an investor’s portfolio | Mint SIFs sit between mutual funds and PMS, offering advanced strategies like long–short equity and derivatives exposure—but investors must understand the risks before allocating capital.