MOPE was founded in 2006 to put the investment philosophy and acumen of MOFSL into action. From the outset, MOPE’s focus has been the mid-market segment, where there was an acute need of capital, and where the MOFSL brand had significant leverage.
CORE PRINCIPLES
What we look for in companies before investing is only an extension of our own value system. Therefore, what follows are the essential principles that guide our own organisation and investment strategy.
- Entrepreneurship
MOPE strives to partner with entrepreneurial talents across sectors. We look for highly passionate, visionary, tenacious and committed entrepreneurs who have built excellent businesses. We consider ourselves as a fund for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. Our entrepreneurial approach is what differentiates us and an ability to work with Indian sensibilities allows us to connect with business leaders and build deep, enduring relationships with them. We seek to be a true valuable partner to the entrepreneurs we back.
- Business Excellence
MOPE looks for businesses that have traits of excellence, have leadership potential, ability to scale up and are of high quality. We believe that management foresight, tenacity and quality of business operations, not intermittently but consistently form the foundations of business excellence. We endeavor to partner with excellent management teams and work with them to further enhance their companies.
- Transparency and integrity
We continue to be guided by our core values of integrity and transparency in our investment process. We also maintain these values in the investments we make. We look for businesses and management teams with high level of transparency and integrity. These principles find relevance and application.
OUR BUSINESSES
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Growth Capital
MOPE looks to invest in established mid-market businesses with strong growth characteristics, clear and mature business model and a leading market position. The private equity team has investing experience across sectors and over multiple economic cycles with an established track-record of successful exits. MOPE focuses on investments in consumer, financial services, life sciences and niche manufacturing sector but remain sector agnostic for relevant opportunities.
- India Business Excellence Fund (IBEF)
Raised in 2007 550 crore private equity fund invested in 13 companies; 9 full and 2 partial exits achieved till date.
- India Business Excellence Fund II (IBEF - II)
Raised in 2012 1,000 crore private equity fund fully invested across 11 companies.
- India Business Excellence Fund II (IBEF - III)
Raised in 2018 2,000 crore private equity fund, currently in deployment phase with investment in 2 companies till date
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Real Estate
Motilal Oswal Real Estate (MORE), through its funds partners with credible and reputed developers across India's major cities, such as Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai & Hyderabad. The primary focus in these cities is mid-income residential projects. MORE is one of the very few real estate fund platform which straddles across secured debt, mezzanine capital and equity requirements of developers by nurturing strong relationship.
- India Realty Excellence Fund (IREF)
200 Crore domestic real estate fund focused on investing in residential projects.
- India Realty Excellence Fund II (IREF - II)
500 Crore domestic real estate fund intends to capitalise on the existing counter-cyclical opportunities in real estate.
- India Realty Excellence Fund III (IREF - III)
1,000 Crore domestic real estate fund intends to capitalise on the existing counter-cyclical opportunities in real estate.
- India Realty Excellence Fund IV (IREF - IV)
1,500 Crore domestic real estate fund primarily focused on investing in top 6 cities in India through early stage mezzanine / structured equity transactions.