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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Mumbai: Large mutual funds in India are becoming more selective about investing in smaller stock market listings, making companies that seek to raise between ₹400 crore to ₹2,000 crore either wait out a volatile market or turn to private equity and venture capital firms for funds.“There is clearly more selectivity. In the ₹2,000–3,000 crore range, deals need sharper differentiation on growth, quality, and valuation to see strong traction,” said Raghav Gupta, joint chief executive officer, IIFL Capital.

Mint in an emailed statement.Other companies including Turtlemint, Indo-Mim, Inframarket, Symbiotech Pharmalabs, Duroflex, and KKR-backed Leap India are also taking a more calibrated approach for a public listing in the current climate, multiple people familiar with the matter said. All these companies have secured approval from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to go public, according to data from Prime Database.Some of these companies have temporarily paused or deferred their IPO preparations due to concerns over valuations amid a turbulent stock market, two people said on the condition of anonymity.

Edtech platform Coursera is banking on the rising demand for generative AI (genAI) courses to drive learner growth as India is at the forefront of enrollments, a senior executive told ET. “If we are comparing it to the pandemic, of course the growth is slower (for online learning platforms). But now genAI courses are driving the growth with over 950,000 enrollments happening for genAI courses and almost 1600% year-on-year growth in genAI content,” Raghav Gupta, managing director of Coursera India and Asia Pacific, said in an interview. “Some of the growth is also happening because it is such a hot topic that people want to learn and there is a bit of a fear of missing out as well,” he added.

IIFL Securities today announced three senior management appointments to bolster its Wealth management platform / equities broking business. IIFL Securities currently manages $23billion worth of AUM (appx INR 1.9 lac crores). It has appointed career Private Bankers Mr. Raghav Gupta and Mr. Prakash Bulusu as Joint CEOs to manage and grow their HNI & UHNI wealth business and Mr. Amit Srivastava as Senior Managing Partner to run Investments & Product for the firm.Mr.

generative artificial intelligence (genAI). Someone in India enrolled in genAI content roughly every three minutes in 2023, according to a study on learner trends by Coursera, which provides online courses. Searches for GenAI content on the internet grew fourfold in the country compared with the previous year. The study was based on data from more than 22.2 million registered learners, Coursera said. Raghav Gupta, managing director for India and APAC at Coursera, said: “The renewed focus on lifelong learning, tech and, human skills, and blended learning on campuses will be the key to employability in the AI-driven world.” Amid the surge in interest, global universities and industry educators launched more than 35 genAI courses or projects in India. ‘Generative AI for Everyone’, a course authored by AI pioneer Andrew Ng, became the fastest growing course in 2023 and had the second highest enrolment from Indian learners on Coursera. Gupta said: “The interest in genAI, leadership, tech and data skills not only reflects the learners' thirst for cutting-edge knowledge but also their commitment to staying at the forefront of the digital revolution.” The data from the study show that Indian learners are particularly keen on courses that provide high-demand technology and data science skills. The second most popular course in India in 2023 was Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad’s ‘Leadership Skills’, which covers topics such as influence, authority, power dynamics, stress management and lessons from the Mahabharata. The study shows that people are opting for courses that are part of entry-level professional certificate programmes.

The jute industry is concerned over a threat of a 30-50 per cent production cut in three months till November, compared to the same period last year, because of a low demand for packaging material for foodgrains from various states, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Bitcoin is moving towards the $45,000 mark after a sharp rise on Tuesday. The largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation is among the second best performers among the digital tokens, rising as much as 17 per cent in the last one week. Only Terra (LUNA) is ahead of Bitcoin, rallying over 70 per cent. The total marketcap of Bitcoin is inching towards the $900 billion mark. However, the volumes of crypto assets have dropped more than 12 per cent as Bitcoins worth $33.5 billion exchanged hands in the last 24 hours, the data suggest.

Censor Black on Monday announced it will target the creation of 8 million jobs over the next 3 years in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector across the world. The Telangana-based platform extended its financial services by providing blockchain-enabled solutions to create additional revenue sources for manufacturing SMEs by tokenizing their under-utilized assets. Accessibility of finance is a big issue in MSMEs around the world, said Raghav Gupta, Founder of Censor Black, a collaborative Defi platform that serves investors and SME supply chains.

Global online education platform Coursera has on boarded five on demand courses on crypto and digital currency from top universities including Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and INSEAD in the backdrop of cryptocurrency gaining further momentum and garners wider public discourse in India.