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Faering Capital
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Faering Capital is a leading Indian private equity firm that adopts a disciplined, sector-focused investment approach to develop proprietary investment themes and partners with exceptional companies to navigate sustainable growth. The firm builds deep expertise, teams, and networks across its four focus sectors — Financial Services, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, and Business Services — taking a proactive and long-term approach centred on building relationships with entrepreneurs well before opportunities arise. Founded on the principles of Trust, Knowledge, and Partnership, Faering acts as a catalyst for market leadership by engaging impactfully with portfolio companies across strategy, operations, governance, network enhancement, recruiting, and fundraising. The firm targets mid-market growth-stage companies in India, with an average ticket size of $15–40 million per investment, and has raised over $720 million across three funds since its founding in 2009.
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“We are not venture capitalists. Our policy is capital protection is very important to us. What we looked for was: 1) Is this a promoter we can trust? 2) Has the corporate governance been verified by people close to us? 3) Is he building a market leading company in this industry? 4) Is it a strong brand?”
“Since our initial investment, smallcase has continued to innovate and grown AUM and revenues over 10X. We are delighted to strengthen our partnership with the smallcase team as they continue to build one of the most trusted investment platforms for retail investors in the country.”
“When you give the same weightage to each transaction, whether it is Rs 5 crore or Rs 100 crores, and you are thinking about the portfolio as a team from a portfolio level and you do not want any stepchildren — each investment is doing well. And that is where we can say there is no exit problem.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| PB Health (PB Healthcare Services) | Seed | $218m | 2025-05-01 |
| Hangyo Ice Cream | Series A | $25m | 2024-08-22 |
| Bakingo | Growth | $16m | 2023-11-10 |
| Vastu Housing Finance | Growth | $30m | 2023-10-19 |
| smallcase | Series C | $40m | 2021-08-18 |
| Go Digit General Insurance | Series B+ | $80m | 2021-07-02 |
| Plum | Series B | — | 2020-11-26 |
| Nykaa | Growth | — | — |
| Anthem Biosciences | Growth | — | — |
| Finova Capital | Series B | — | 2019-03-26 |
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