Exhilway To Launch Emerging India Business Fund In June

Online, April 24, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Exhilway, India's first private capital market will launch Emerging India Business (Venture) Fund this June to finance the growing businesses from India and transform them into a successful enterprise and make them ready to go public.

The fund will handpick the best performing companies listed on its platform and will raise a minimum of INR 1,000 crore or US $200 million within 90 days of its launch. The investor will invest a minimum of INR 50 lakhs or US $100 K to subscribe to the fund. Exhilway will strive for a return between 25-30% every year with a moderate approach. The fund may also offer capital protection to the selected clients investing more than US $250 K with an surety of a minimum return. The fund will carry a lock in period of 3 years.

Exhilway Private Capital Market which was launched on April 9 this year gathered a lot of traction from the small businesses who has the potential to make it big but are struggling to sustain their businesses in the absence of funds. Exhilway Private Capital Market not only attracted small businesses even the high profile investors felt safe trading on its platform as it offers INR 500 crore or US $100 million investor protection fund to safeguard from frauds and sudden losses.

Exhilway Private Capital Market works on a unique business model where they charge emerging businesses up to 15% equity stake in their business and in turn they find the best investors for them. Exhilway also arrange the senior management for these growing businesses at a nominal cost. The equity of the emerging companies acts like an currency to buy itself a bouquet of services from the exchange.

"Listing on Exhilway Private Capital Market gave us the confidence to face the world of business. Everybody wants to know what we are worth and this what exactly this platform does," said Dinesh Chandra of DC Builders (Average Market Cap: INR 19 crore or US $ 3.8 million), a listed company on Exhilway Private Capital Market.

Adding to the comments made by Dinesh Chandra, Rahul Malhotra the CEO of CandyDate Jobs said "We are quite confident that private capital markets will attract lot of young investors, the old exchanges are like old form of jeans it's time to wear destroyed fashionable jeans. The mind boggling return will attract the small investors and the rich investors will follow,".

Candydatejobs.com (Average Market Cap: INR 650 crore or US $130 million), India's leading human resource consultants generated 42% return within 12 days of listing whereas Styleadda.com (Average Market Cap: INR 1600 crore or US $320 million) gave around 30% return.

Exhilway Private Capital Market will carve out the next generation of billionaires and will create substantial wealth for the investors. The companies which are listed on this platform is in nascent stage waiting to make it big.

"Private Capital Markets has a tendency to generate high returns, the only hurdle is how to pick the correct company. With this upcoming Emerging Business Fund, we are confident that the investors will confidently invest for a longer duration,".

Facebook which was the part of secondmarket and sharepost, the two renowned private capital markets helped it to achieve a US $100 billion valuation mark. Early investors of facebook generated more than 10,000% returns on their investment.

"Facebook was a exceptional case but keeping in mind the potential of small and medium businesses generating an average of 35% return every year does not seem to be impossible," says Radhika Biswas of Globe Capital Advisors.

At the current levels, with the 17 listed companies on its platform, Exhilway Private Capital Market is valued at INR 1,275 crore or US $25.5 million. Exhilway plans to have 60 listed companies on its platform by the end of the 2012, with an average market capitalization of INR 800 crore or US $160 million which may take the valuation of the new private capital market to INR 7,200 crore or US $1.44 billion.

The proposed fund will be distributed by various finance companies in India. The fund will carry a commission of 2-4% and will be open to high net worth investors from India and abroad.

An email inquiry to the Exhilway elicited the following response "We are in initial stages of planning a fund for the growing businesses, the management is not finalized yet but we assure that this will be a unique fund which will focus on both investor and the management of the small business simultaneously,".