Aditya Birla Capital Advisors

Aditya Birla Private Equity - Fund I
- Aditya Birla Private Equity – Fund I is a sector-agnostic domestic Fund, focused on providing growth capital to mature sectors and businesses. The Fund has a corpus of INR 8.81 billion with a mandate to invest in and harvest business growth opportunities created by the strong prospects of the Indian economy. The Fund looks for substantial minority stakes while investing primarily in unlisted, mid-market, high-growth, India-centric businesses with a potential to play the role of an active investor.
  
  Portfolio:
  Anupam Industries Ltd
  Established in 1973, Anupam Industries Ltd (AIL) is one of the leading manufacturers of Material Handling Equipments (MHE) in India. AIL’s product portfolio includes cranes used in industries such as power, steel, construction, manufacturing and ports. Its manufacturing facilities located in Anand, Gujarat.
  
  Anupam’s customers include marquee players, both from public and private sector, in each of the industries it caters to.
  
  Anupam is led by a competent management team, which is a mix of industry veterans and young professionals. It is the effort of this team which led Anupam Industries Ltd to be recognized as the “Star SME of the Year” at the Business Today SME Awards 2009.
  For more details, visit the company website www.anupamgroup.com
- Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
  Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in Asia with a rich heritage, now spanning multiple decades in its existence. Over the past several years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it with an efficient access to resources. There is perhaps no major corporate in India which has not sourced BSE's services in raising resources from the capital market.
  
  Today, BSE is the world's number 1 exchange in terms of the number of listed companies and the world's 5th in transaction numbers. An investor can choose from more than 4,700 listed companies. The BSE Index, SENSEX, is India's first stock market index that enjoys an iconic stature, and is tracked worldwide. It is an index of 30 stocks representing major sectors. BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, debt instruments and derivatives. It has a nation-wide reach with a presence in more than 450 cities and towns of India. BSE has always been at par with the international standards.
  
  For more details, visit the company website www.bseindia.com
- Credit Analysis & Research Ltd. (CARE)
  Credit Analysis & Research Ltd. (CARE) is a full service rating company that offers a wide range of rating and grading services across sectors. It is the second largest ratings company in India in terms of rating revenue. Its Ratings methodologies are in line with the best international practices.
  
  CARE has completed over 7654 rating assignments having aggregate value of about Rs.23121 bn (as at March 31, 2010), since its inception in April 1993. It is recognized by Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), Government of India (GoI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) etc.
  
  It has over 230 employees across seven offices in India located at - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. It is a Board managed, professionally run Company with an independent rating committee comprising eminent experts.
  
  For more details, visit the company website www.careratings.com
- GEI Industrial Systems Ltd (GEI)
  GEI Industrial Systems Ltd, established in the year 1970 is India’s leading heat transfer company engaged in design, engineering, manufacturing and supply of Air Cooled Heat Exchangers for the Oil and Gas Industry and Air Cooled Steam Condensers for Thermal Power Plants. The company holds a market share of more than 60% in the Air Cooled Steam Condenser segment, having largest number of installations and also the largest capacity of Air Cooled Condensers installed in India.
  
  GEI has entered into a technological alliance with Innospin AG of Switzerland to supply Air Cooled Steam Condensers for mega power projects of capacities 660 MW and beyond. GEI has forayed into the Balance of Plant and Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC segment) of thermal power plants.
  
  Its operations are based out of Bhopal and Mandideep in Madhya Pradesh. The Company is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange.
  
  For more details, visit the company website www.geiind.com
- Alphion India Private Limited
  The Alphion Group of Companies consists of US-based Alphion Corporation (Alphion) and Alphion India Private Limited (AIPL), its principal subsidiary in India. Alphion develops, manufactures and markets all optical systems and devices based on its proprietary QLight® technology platform. Alphion offers broadband access products, which support end-to-end GPON network solutions. It is the worldwide pioneer in developing all optical PON network extension solutions. Alphion's GPON solutions enable wireless and wire-line network convergence as it is suitable not only for multiple-play voice, high speed Internet, data and video services but also for backhaul of WiMax, 2G/3G/4G cellular and future wireless networks.
  
  Alphion products are sold worldwide to service providers and OEMs in Fiber-To-The-x (FTTx), telecommunications, CATV, fiber optic sensing, medical imaging, and defence system markets. Alphion is a member of both Full Service Access Network (FSAN) – a consortium of carriers and equipment suppliers developing tomorrow's broadband network standards and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
  
  AIPL has operations in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi, and Gurgaon and its parent Alphion Corporation is headquartered in Princeton, NJ in the US.
  
  For more details, visit the company website www.alphion.com
Aditya Birla Private Equity - Sunrise Fund
- Aditya Birla Private Equity – Sunrise Fund is a domestic Fund, focused on providing growth capital to proven businesses/ concepts within sectors that are in early stage of exponential growth. The Fund has mandate to invest in potential winners within innovation driven sunrise sectors based on specific themes including Lifestyle, Lifeskills and Education, Lifecare and Applied Technologies. The Fund looks for substantial minority stakes while investing primarily in unlisted, exponential-growth, India-centric businesses in sunrise sectors with a potential to play the role of an active investor.
  
  Portfolio:
  SMS Paryavaran Ltd. (SMS)
  SMS Paryavaran Ltd. is one of India's leading companies in the water and waste-water treatment sector. The company is recognized as a high quality and specialized turnkey engineering services company executing projects for development of water and sewage treatment plants, and integrated water supply and sewage schemes. SMS delivers end-to-end projects, including design, construction, commissioning, and Operations & Maintenance.
  
  The company is based in Delhi, and has executed projects in the majority of Indian states. Their clients are primarily municipalities and urban civic bodies. SMS is led by a highly qualified management team with strong technical and business credentials and significant industry experience. The team includes more than 125 qualified staff including 25 Engineers and an experienced project execution team.
  
  For more details, visit the company website www.smsplindia.com