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Covalent: Term Loan for Expansion and Modernization
Maram Srikanth; Palanisamy SaravananCase IVEY-9B15N009-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyCovalent Laboratories Private Ltd. is involved in the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients and bulk drugs in Hyderabad, India. In March 2012, the company added a new manufacturing plant and was in the process of obtaining regulatory approvals for its products from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Directorate of Quality of Medicines. Anticipating good growth, the company approached the Commercial Development Bank ...Starting at €8.20
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Natco Pharma: Manufacturing Affordable Medicines
Maram Srikanth; Palanisamy Saravanan; Gunta SrinivasCase IVEY-9B18N024-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyIn 2015, the chief executive officer of Natco Pharma Limited, a commercial manufacturer of pharmaceutical drugs in India, needed to raise funds either through debt or equity to meet the company's capital expenditure and working capital requirements of ₹3.Starting at €8.20
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TerraPower
Sahlman, William A.; Nanda, Ramana; Lassiter, Joseph B.; McQuade, JamesCase HBS-813108-EEntrepreneurshipJohn Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear reactor. Though early in the fundraising process, Gilleland noted that this most recent conversation was similar to conversations with other interested cleantech growth equity investors. ...Starting at €8.20
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Getit
Nanda, RamanaCase HBS-813178-EEntrepreneurshipSidharth Gupta, CEO of Getit Infomediary Ltd, had just received a term sheet from Helion Venture Partners (Helion), one of India's independent venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of transforming Getit from a regional print company into a digital company with broad geographical reach was within grasp. However, Gupta had to act fast; Helion's term sheet would expire in a f...Starting at €8.20
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Oasys Water: Balancing Strategic Partnerships & Financing Decisions
Nanda, Ramana; Sahlman, William A.; Misra, SidCase HBS-815076-EEntrepreneurshipOasys Water had developed a proprietary water treatment technology based on an innovative forward osmosis process that could remove dissolved solids from water more effectively and efficiently than existing technologies. As Oasys looked to scale, it was exploring partnerships with various incumbent firms-the most serious were with a set of international oil and gas production companies (IOCs); a global oil and gas (O&G) services provider called N...Starting at €8.20
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Multi-Stage Financing of High-Potential Ventures
Nanda, RamanaCase HBS-815112-EEntrepreneurshipSuntech, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and solar panels, is the third largest solar company in the world. About 90 percent of its sales have been in Europe-especially Germany and Spain. But with its new "pluto" technology, and with new governmental subsidies in China, Japan and the USA, Suntech is shifting its focus-first to the USA, and then to China and Japan. And it has recently moved down-stream in the USA, into systems integra...Starting at €8.20
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Chai Point: Disrupting Chai
Ghosh, Shikhar; Nanda, Ramana; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-818020-EEntrepreneurshipChai Point is India's largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also their board members. However, it has developed an exciting new Internet based tea dispenser, that has the potential to dramatically increase Chai Point's market opportunity and growth rate but can be seen as a change in their growth strategy. The founder needs t...Starting at €8.20
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Nava Bharat: Energy Solutions for India
Maram Srikanth; Palanisamy SaravananCase IVEY-9B17N017-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyOn June 30, 2009, Nava Bharat Energy India Limited (NBEIL) proposed the setup of two coal-fired power projects: one in Paloncha, Khammam District, and another in Dharmavaram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. The sites of these projects were located adjacent to the existing power plants of Nava Bharat Ventures Limited, parent company of NBEIL, a renowned industrial group based in South India.NBEIL approached the president of a bank to arran...Starting at €8.20
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H-Soft Mumbai
Nanda, RamanaCase HBS-812168-EFinanceSiddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai reflected on his meeting as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this huge milestone, Kapoor knew it was only the start of a long process of raising money. He only had three days to get back to Vikram Sharma and indicate whether he would like to initiat...Starting at €8.20
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H-Soft (B-2): Vikram Sharma
Nanda, RamanaCase HBS-812170-EFinanceSiddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai, reflected on his meetings as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this huge milestone, Kapoor knew it was only the start of a long process of raising money. He only had three days to get back to Sharma and indicate whether he would like to initiate the...Starting at €8.20