Bigger India

AMD plans to raise $200 million India-focused tech fund

AMD Ventures’ fund will be an offshore entity based in either Singapore and Amsterdam and follow the FDI route to invest in technology-focused companies in India.

AMD Ventures, the venture capital arm of US-based chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), is raising an India-focused technology fund with a targeted corpus of close to $200 million, said two people directly aware of the development , on the condition of anonymity.

The India-focused fund will be an offshore entity and will operate from either Singapore or Amsterdam. The fund will follow the foreign direct investment (FDI) route to invest in technology-focused companies in India. AMD is understood to have hired law firm AZB Partners as legal advisers in India for the new fund.

Read it at Live Mint

You must be logged in to post a comment Login