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Enhancing Performance, Efficiency & Collaboration: India's EnterpriseOps Sector Attracts Investor Attention
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The Healthcare industry has drastically evolved over the past decade in India. From affordable insurance, and easy access to doctors and medicines to the invention of tech-enabled life savings treatments, quality of healthcare is growing by leaps and bounds, thanks to innovation and disruption offered by upcoming health tech start-ups. The health-tech sector was valued at $5 bn in 2019 and is going to witness a growth of ~4x and is slated to stand at $21 bn by FY25.
India alone has ~5000 start-ups which are offering innovative solutions in areas such as chronic disease management, fitness and wellness, IT and analytics for better clinical outcomes, telemedicine, online pharmacy, home healthcare, e-diagnostics which are rapidly changing the landscape of the healthcare industry.
The healthcare team at Merisis strives to identify these trends early on and assist companies in the identified sub-segments with their growth plans.
The team has extensive experience in fundraising and M&A transactions across the healthcare landscape worked with companies operating in chronic disease management, preventive healthcare platforms, diagnostics, pharma amongst others.
Our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory and private equity (PE) syndication services are recognized as amongst the best in these chosen sub-sectors.
Ghoshal heads the healthcare vertical for Merisis Advisors. He has over 14+ years of experience within sell side investment banking as well as the buy side. Prior to joining Merisis, he has worked for companies such as Deloitte in the Corporate Finance Advisory team and Brand Capital which is the strategic investment arm of the Times of India. Has executed large value transactions across verticals in the fund-raising space. Academically Ghoshal has completed his Masters in Corporate Strategy from the Nottingham University Business School. He also holds professional degrees such as Company Secretary, Cost Account (Finalist) and has also completed his bachelor’s degree in law.
Ghoshal heads the healthcare vertical for Merisis Advisors. He has over 14+ years of experience within sell side investment banking as well as the buy side. Prior to joining Merisis, he has worked for companies such as Deloitte in the Corporate Finance Advisory team and Brand Capital which is the strategic investment arm of the Times of India. Has executed large value transactions across verticals in the fund-raising space. Academically Ghoshal has completed his Masters in Corporate Strategy from the Nottingham University Business School. He also holds professional degrees such as Company Secretary, Cost Account (Finalist) and has also completed his bachelor’s degree in law.
Fintechs are expected to play a vital role in increasing financial inclusion and digital adoption. The total addressable market for Indian fintech is expected to reach $2.1 Tn by 2030, with a CAGR of 18% from 2022. India has seen a significant rise in fintech investment, with about $35 billion invested across segments thus far. The years 2021 and 2022 saw more than $19 billion of fintech funding and the addition of 18 fintech unicorns. Capitalizing on strong demographics, increasing digital adoption, maturing data ecosystem & infrastructure, and product expansion will help fintech accelerate financial inclusion within the regulatory guardrails The FinTech team at Merisis strives to identify trends early on and assist companies in the identified sub-segments with their growth plans. The team has extensive experience in fundraising and M&A transactions across the FinTech landscape having worked with companies in payments, distribution, lending, wealth tech and insurtech space.
● Lending
● WealthTech
● InsurTech
● Neobanking
● Cross Border Payments
● Fintech Infrastructure
Fazal is the Managing Director at Merisis Advisors. He has 25+ years of experience across Investment Banking, Corporate Advisory & Asset Management services. He drives the M&A Strategy at Merisis Advisors. His focus areas include Healthtech, financial Services, IT services and Internet Commerce. He has worked with organizations like Rana Investments, Reliance Industries, Lloyds and Finance across his career before founding Merisis Advisors in 2009. He completed his B.TECH from IIT BHU in 1990 and MBA from IIM Calcutta in 1994.
Anuj Mehta leads Fitech and Financial services transaction advisory at Merisis Advisors. He comes with 15 years+ of Investment Banking experience and has worked across Equity, Structured Debt and Debt in TMT & Offline Consumer space through his career. He is a Chartered Accountant and has worked with companies like Bonanza Corporate Solutions, Wealth Solutions, Deutsche Bank, ICICI Bank and Competent Group.
20 years experience in Wealth Management, Fintech, NBFC, Trade and SME Banking. At Merisis, Ruchir manages the wealth-management practice and co-heads the Fintech vertical. Has worked with corporates like Swift, Essel Finance, Tata Capital and ICICI Bank and has managed book sizes of $400mn to $2bn
The Transportation sector has seen a renewed focus post-pandemic as it highlighted the relevance of logistics and supply chains. The sector has seen significant growth in recent years in the number of emerging start-ups, interest from investors, and policy push from the government. The sector has also seen the most impact from the increased clean tech focused funding as electrification emerged as a key theme. The Transportation & CleanTech vertical at Merisis advises companies across various sub-sectors and facilitates their funding and M&A plans leveraging our deep connections in the ecosystem. Merisis has worked with category creators across this vertical and has strong relationships with a diverse set of Indian and global investors, which allows us to add value to our clients by finding the right partner.
1. Logistics / Mobility
a. Intra/inter city transportation: people and goods mobility (B2B/B2C)
b. Fulfillment
c. Tech enablers: Supply chain optimization, fleet management, analytics etc
d. Global Freight
2. CleanTech
a. Electrification
b. Renewable Energy
c. Waste management
d. Circular Economy
Sumir is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Merisis Advisors. At Merisis his focus areas include Transportation, Financial Services, IT Services and internet commerce. He was the banker to Ola Cabs for their Series A raise and counts Flipkart amongst one of his marquee clients. Over the last 25+ years, he has worked across various roles in corporate finance – as part of the Strategy and M&A at the Aditya Birla Group, M&A at Scandent Group (an IT services company), and as an Investment Banker at Meghraj, before founding Merisis in 2009. He is a Chartered Accountant
Darshan leads the Transportation practice at Merisis along with Sumir Verma. His purview spans across mobility, logistics and cleantech and gaming amongst other verticals at Merisis. He comes with 8 years of Investment Banking experience. He has done his MS-GM from Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA and BTech-IT from VJTI, Mumbai. He is a CFA® Charterholder (CFAI, USA)
The consumer vertical is focused on the needs of the ever-changing Indian consumer. As the customer is evolving, consumer brands and services are on the lookout for constant innovation in order to stay relevant. The consumer team at Merisis strives to identify these trends early on and assist companies in the identified sub-segments with their growth plans. The team has extensive experience in fundraising and M&A transactions across the consumer sector – be it in products, services or channels. The team works hand in hand with all the other verticals in order to provide a consumer’s perspective to the offering.
He also leads the Consumer Practice at Merisis Advisors. His work experience spans across 24+ years, both as an entrepreneur and a professional. He is an operator turned Investment Banker with a rich entrepreneurial background and extensive work experience across consumer conglomerates like Procter & Gamble. He has also worked with Deloitte and HCL Talent Care. He holds a B. Tech from NIT, Jamshedpur and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Shanil Vasa heads the consumer vertical for Merisis Advisors and is based in Mumbai. He has over 7 years of investment banking experience in the consumer sector across early and growth stage fundraising as well as M&As. Prior to joining Merisis, he worked for 5 years at InCorp (India). At InCorp, he was responsible for end to end execution of deals involving startups as well as listed companies. Prior to InCorp, Shanil was with Chokshi & Chokshi, where he headed various statutory, internal audits and due diligence and conducted valuation exercises. He is a Chartered Accountant from India.
The Enterprise practice is focused on delivering high impact solutions to drive the growth agenda of companies in the fast changing technology sector. We leverage our extensive knowledge and relationships in this sector to provide customized capital raising and strategic M&A advice to our corporate clients. Our endeavor is to always deliver a superior customer experience based on trust and partnership.
Our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory and private equity (PE) syndication services are recognized as amongst the best in these chosen sub-sectors.
Paresh leads the Enterprise Tech & Services practice at Merisis. Paresh has more than 20 years of experience across IT Services and Investment Banking. He has worked with companies including SBI Capital Markets, Sapient, Virtusa, Nomura Research and GlobalLogic. He was part of the core team at TalentSprint - India's leading Ed tech firm - which has now been acquired by NSE.Paresh completed his MBA from IIM Bangalore and has a degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Bhopal.
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