About
Founded by three generations of the Bhattacharyya and Mukherjee families, all of whom worked at Indian Valve, Gateway Capital seeks out businesses with strong reputations for service and quality. Typically, these businesses are in transition and owned by first generation entrepreneurs who continue to own significant stakes post-transaction.
Gateway Capital team-members have backgrounds in manufacturing, consulting, publishing, digital marketing, branding, real estate and IT. We work with the management of our portfolio companies on strategic initiatives, M&A and Joint Ventures, but we do not seek to manage the companies. In every investment we have made, the entrepreneur has continued to run the business. Gateway Capital has never initiated a management change at any of its portfolio companies.
Gateway Capital has dedicated sources of capital that do not expire as is the norm with Private Equity funds. As a result, our approach is to take a longer-term view. We never have a timeline to exit an investment nor an expiration date of our capital.
History
The origin of Indian Valve goes back to 1966, following the closure of Glenfield and Kennedy Limited, a renowned hydraulic valve manufacturing company in Scotland. The new brand, Indian Valve Company, was born from the knowledge gained in the UK. Starting operations in West Bengal, India, the promoters were able to quickly establish an international reputation of their own, and established a new manufacturing plant in Nasik, India. Subsequently a foundry was established in West Bengal, India to feed this plant.
Indian Valve supplies water boards, sewerage projects, large Irrigation projects, thermal/atomic power stations, steel plants and process industries in India, USA, Middle East, British Isles, South & Far East Asia.
The Indian Valve Group
Since 1966, Indian Valve has been a leading manufacturer of valves and pen stocks. With Besides supplying to the water boards, sewerage projects, large Irrigation projects, thermal/atomic power stations, steel plants and process industries within the country, "IVC " valves also found application overseas (USA, the British Isles, South & Far East Asia, Africa and Middle East).
Team
Gateway Capital is managed by the IVC board members. Together they have over 150 years of combined experience in multiple businesses.
As current operating partners themselves, the Gateway Capital managing members have an understanding of the opportunities and challenges that face an entrepreneurial company as it strives to grow and develop to the next level. With over fifteen decades of combined operating experience through both good and bad times, the Gateway team can successfully augment the existing management team by sharing lessons learned through the Indian Valve experience. Having acquired and sold a business, the Gateway managing members have an appreciation and respect for a company’s values and culture and don’t believe in wholesale changes for a business that has previously proved successful.
Timeline
The inception, 1966
Technical association, 1976
IVI, 1991
Acquired Get Me Cab, 2013
MyDNA Labs, 2016
Asian Curator, 2017
CSR, 2019
IVC, with help from the local rotary chapter, helped build this RCC dam before the onset of monsoon. Appropriately named ‘Ram Jal Bandh’ by the residents, with a maximum capacity of 1 million litres of fresh water, the dam will satiate the needs of Shivseth and the adjoining downstream villages of Ambe, Mohadad, Ambedongar, Mhasgaon and Malegaon for a whole monsoon cycle.
MBH, 2020
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