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Amazon’s India Partner Samara Capital Plans $500 Million Fund

  • Investor targeting to close new fund in second half of 2022
  • Samara to invest in consumer, health care, tech and finance

Samara Capital, an India-focused private equity firm and a local partner of Amazon.com Inc., is planning to raise as much as $500 million for a new fund targeting companies in Asia’s third-biggest economy.

The Mumbai-based company is looking to invest in businesses ranging from retail and health care to technology and finance, and plans to close the fund in the second half of 2022, Sumeet Narang, Samara’s founder and managing director, said in an interview.