{"id":1005566,"date":"2026-04-29T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005566"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:38:22","slug":"i-squared-cap-to-exit-polaris-smart-metering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/i-squared-cap-to-exit-polaris-smart-metering\/","title":{"rendered":"I Squared Cap to exit Polaris Smart Metering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: I Squared Capital, the $55-billion infrastructure-focused asset manager, is exploring an exit from smart metering company Polaris Smart Metering Pte, said people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The US-based fund has appointed boutique investment bank Impact Infracap to run the sale process. The potential deal could peg Polaris&#8217; enterprise value at around $200 million (\u20b91,892 crore), the people said. <\/p>\n<p>I Squared had committed an investment of $150 million in February 2023 for a controlling majority stake in Polaris through its ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund (ISQGMIF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: I Squared Capital, the $55-billion infrastructure-focused asset manager, is exploring an exit from smart metering company Polaris Smart Metering Pte, said people familiar with the matter. The US-based fund has appointed boutique investment bank Impact Infracap to run the sale process. The potential deal could peg Polaris&#8217; enterprise value at around $200 million (\u20b91,892 crore), the people said. I Squared had committed an investment of $150 million in February 2023 for a controlling majority stake in Polaris through its ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund (ISQGMIF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005590,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005566\/revisions\/1005590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}