Peak XV eyes $50M funding in former Edelweiss executives’ Neo

Peak XV Companions is in superior phases of deliberations to guide a financing spherical in Neo Group, an asset administration and monetary advisory agency, three sources aware of the matter stated.

The agency is finalizing an funding of as a lot as $50 million in Neo Group, which additionally runs a household workplace, the sources stated, requesting anonymity because the deliberations are ongoing and never public. The deal hasn’t finalized, so the phrases might change, one of many folks cautioned.

Peak XV declined to remark. Mumbai-headquartered Neo Group didn’t instantly reply.

Nitin Jain, former chief government of Edelweiss Monetary Companies, and a gaggle of veteran monetary service executives from Edelweiss based Neo Group in late 2021. The startup, which was managing greater than $1 billion in belongings by mid-last 12 months, earlier raised about $40 million from undisclosed buyers, in line with an earlier assertion.

India’s asset administration business, with over $540 billion in belongings below administration, is more and more attracting extra gamers. Jio Monetary Companies, a part of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance, final month joined forces with the U.S. big BlackRock to kind a 50:50 three way partnership to launch asset administration companies within the South Asian market.

“India’s present family monetary wealth stands at round $ 3 trillion and is more likely to develop at 17- 18% over the subsequent decade. It’s occurring at a time when rates of interest in India are at historic lows. This coupled with growing inflation and better life expectancy goes to drive the necessity for classy alternate options to financial institution deposits in type of mounted revenue, personal debt and different long-term yielding devices,” Jain stated final 12 months.

For Peak XV, an funding in Neo could be the newest in a sequence of current checks the agency has lower amid its break up from the storied enterprise agency Sequoia. Masters Union and Wingreens are additionally in late-stage discussions to safe funding from Peak XV, in line with native media stories.