A clutch of private equity (PE) firms, including BlackRock, Apollo Alternative Assets, Gray Ghost Fund and Sequoia Capital, is looking at investing in India’s education sector, a $40-billion market catering to 460 million children.
Some players, like Sequoia, already have exposures in segments like e-learning, but there is fresh PE interest in the higher education segments like engineering and polytechnic, and even in schools, say industry sources.
A clutch of private equity (PE) firms, including BlackRock, Apollo Alternative Assets, Gray Ghost Fund and Sequoia Capital, is looking at investing in India’s education sector, a $40-billion market catering to 460 million children.
Some players, like Sequoia, already have exposures in segments like e-learning, but there is fresh PE interest in the higher education segments like engineering and polytechnic, and even in schools, say industry sources.
