Webinar · Resurgent India

Distress to Deal Flow: M&A in India's Stressed Startups

India's 2025 startup M&A market recorded 136 acquisitions — a 7% year-on-year rise — driven by two concurrent forces: strategic capability-led buyers hunting for IP and distribution

07 August 2026·Friday·4:00 PM to 5:00 PM·Online

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About this session

The case for the conversation.

This webinar examines how Indian startups in capital-stressed sectors can approach inbound M&A and distress restructuring with commercial discipline — covering valuation benchmarks in a down-round environment, the IBC and SARFAESI levers available to founders and lenders, and how acquirers are pricing compliance readiness and IP defensibility in 2026 deals. The panel draws directly on live deal signals from the edtech asset sale cycle (BYJU'S, Unacademy M&A talks) and logistics consolidation to surface frameworks that attendees can apply to their own mandates.

Who Should Attend

This exclusive webinar is designed for senior leaders and decision-makers.

Founders of Series B/C startups in edtech, logistics, and real estate carrying stressed loan or vendor payment books

CFOs managing covenant breaches or bridge-financing negotiations with NBFCs and venture debt lenders

Business development heads at strategic acquirers in fintech and manufacturing scouting distress-priced targets

Operations heads responsible for carve-out execution and post-merger integration in platform businesses

Senior management at family offices and corporate venture arms building a secondary-deal playbook

Why Attend

Here’s what you’ll take away from this webinar.

A valuation framework for pricing stressed startup assets in a down-round environment — including how acquirers discount BYJU'S-style book versus a clean logistics tech asset

Clarity on which IBC and SARFAESI levers a founder-lender can trigger before a formal CIRP — and the timeline implications for each

A peer signal on how two recent edtech and logistics distress deals were structured to protect employee dues and brand value

A working view on how SEBI's DRHP scrutiny is shaping acquirers' appetite for targets with pending regulatory clearances

An acquirer's checklist of the IP, compliance, and NDI-Rules due diligence items that are blocking or accelerating 2026 deal closures

Distress to Deal Flow: M&A in India's Stressed Startups

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