New Silk Route

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Company type Private
Industry Private equity
PredecessorTaj Capital
Founded2006 (2006) [1]
Founder Rajat Gupta
Parag Saxena
Victor Menezes
Headquarters New York, United States
Mumbai, India
Bengaluru, India
Dubai, United Arab Emirates [2]
Key people
 Parag Saxena (CEO)
Victor Menezes
ProductsPrivate equity, growth capital
AUM $1.4 billion
Website nsrpartners.com

New Silk Route Partners LLC (NSR) is an Indian private equity firm that invests in private companies in India, Asia, and the Middle East. [3]

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History

New Silk Route was initially named Taj Capital. Its founding team included, at various points (alphabetically): [4] [5]

Kumar, Rajaratnam, and Schwartz resigned as founding partners before the firm began operation.

The firm enjoyed close relationships with both Goldman Sachs and the Galleon Group: "A month before joining Goldman’s board, Rajat Gupta began marketing a $2 billion hybrid private-equity and hedge fund vehicle called Taj Capital Partners with one of Goldman’s biggest hedge fund clients, Raj Rajaratnam." [6] According to Fortune, "New Silk Route's original fundraising was for $2 billion (under the name Taj Capital) -- and [...] the first $600 million or so went into Galleon hedge funds." [7]

Management

Advisory board

The fund formed a strategic advisory board in January 2012 comprising: [8]

Investments

In 2007, it invested in Reliance Telecom Infrastructure [9] and Ascend Telecom. [10] In 2008, it invested in Augere, [11] Beaconhouse School System, [12] Destimoney, [13] and Orissa Television Communications. [14] In 2010 NSR invested in Café Coffee Day, [15] Nectar Lifesciences, [16] and Amonix. [17]

In 2013 it invested in Moshes Fine Foods. [18] It had large stakes in 9X Media and Ascend Telecom Infrastructure as of 2016. Its other investments at the time included VRL Logistics, Rolex Rings, KS Oils, Varsity Education Management and Vasudev Adiga’s Fast Food. [18]

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