{"id":854350,"date":"2024-09-11T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=854350"},"modified":"2024-09-11T10:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:36:06","slug":"former-jio-executives-250-million-startup-fund-marks-first-close-of-130-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/11\/former-jio-executives-250-million-startup-fund-marks-first-close-of-130-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Jio executive\u2019s $250 million startup fund marks first close of $130 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firm Playbook Partners, founded by former Jio president and startup investor Vikas Choudhury, on Tuesday, announced the first close at more than $130 million of its $250 million growth capital fund. Raised from global investors from Europe, the US, Middle East, and India, the fund will back growth-stage, tech-enabled companies in large addressable markets with healthy operating margins and high growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture capital firm Playbook Partners, founded by former Jio president and startup investor Vikas Choudhury, on Tuesday, announced the first close at more than $130 million of its $250 million growth capital fund. Raised from global investors from Europe, the US, Middle East, and India, the fund will back growth-stage, tech-enabled companies in large addressable markets with healthy operating margins and high growth.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854350","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=854350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}