Updated on July 13, 2020 The last 2+ months have been a rather busy one for Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). The company has announced twelve big investment deals - from Facebook, Silver Lake Partners, Vista Equity Partners, General Atlantic, KKR…
Read More RIL’s Ambitions For Jio Are Broader And Deeper Than What Meets The Eye
The partnership between Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Facebook as well as the reported interest of Google in Vodafone-Idea and Amazon starting early investment talks with Bharti Airtel (although both telecom companies denied the reports), are developments poised to blur…
Read More How Tech & Telecom Majors Joining Hands Will Change Content Delivery
Jio Platforms is on a tear. The telecoms and digital arm of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has raised $15.2 billion in 11 deals over two months amid a worldwide pandemic. “RIL seems to have mastered [dealmaking] better than…
Read More 11 Deals For $15 Billion In 10 Weeks: Why India’s Jio Platforms Is On An Investment Spree
With everyone clamoring to own a piece of Jio Platforms Ltd., owner of India's largest mobile operator, Jio's parent company may be eyeing an overseas listing. In the next one-to-two years leading up to the IPO, Jio will significantly ramp…
Read More Analysts Tout Benefits Of Possible US IPO For India’s Jio Amid Investment Boom
India’s top telecom companies—Jio Platforms, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and the state-run BSNL—are in the midst of a phase they have not seen in years. A series of investments flowing into the leading player Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) Jio Platforms…
Read More What’s Next In The Jio-Vodafone-Bharti Airtel Rivalry?
Reliance Industries Limited has played many a masterstroke in the past 2 months. The company has managed to attract 10 strategic investments (from a total of 9 investors) and has raised US 14 Bn by divesting 22.38% in Jio Platforms.…
Read More What Value Does Each Investor Bring To Jio Platforms?
Jio Platforms has raised a whopping USD 13.7 billion from global investors in less than eight weeks, a feat probably no other seven-month-old company has ever achieved anywhere in the world. Experts believe that it is Jio Platforms’ ability…
Read More Making Sense of Reliance-Owned Jio Platforms’ Fundraising Spree
Jio Platforms has only been around in its current form since November, yet the digital arm of oil-to-retail giant Reliance Industries – whose chairman Mukesh Ambani is India’s richest man – has attracted almost US$13.5 billion in investment in the past eight weeks…
Read More In India, a Facebook-led investment spree for Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms
A lot has been written about Jio Platforms and how RIL has created history by attracting investments worth INR 1 Trillion in less than 2 months. While RIL has been hugely successful so far with Jio, a large part of…
