Home Construction Community Kolo has announced that it has raised $550K in Better Capital led pre-seed funding round. Speaking on the announcement, Jery Althaf, Co-Founder of Kolo, commented, “We found that decision-making in home construction is inherently a ‘social’ activity. The homeowners go through huge volumes of content and interact with their family, relatives, and…
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) has appointed Ginnie Carlier as the new EY Americas Vice Chair – Talent. She serves as the executive sponsor for College MAP (Mentoring for Access and Persistence), a multiyear, group-mentoring program. Carlier also chairs the EY Americas Talent Executive Committee and is a member of the US Executive Committee,…
Healthtech platform, based in Hyderabad, Hera has announced that it has secured $1 million in seed round from angel investors. Speaking on the announcement, founder Vaishnavi Raju commented, ”There is a huge, unaddressed gap in women’s healthcare in India. If you look at the numbers, you see it — 500 million+ women, 50 percent of…
Healthium Medtech has announced the promotion of Ajay Gupta as the Chairman of the Board. The company also announced the appointment of Namrata Kaul as an Independent Board member. Speaking on the appointment, Anish Bafna, CEO and MD of Healthium Medtech, commented, “We are delighted to welcome Mr. Ajay Gupta in his new role as…
Bengaluru and Mumbai-based learning and community platform FrontRow has said that it has secured $14 million in Eight Roads Ventures and GSV led series A funding round. Existing investors including Lightspeed and Elevation Capital along with angel investors participated in the funding round. Akshay Bhushan, Partner at Lightspeed, commented, “FrontRow is the pioneer of the…
Bilt Rewards has announced a growth funding round of $60 million, with investment from Wells Fargo, Mastercard, and a group of the real estate owners including Blackstone, AvalonBay Communities, Douglas Elliman, New Valley Ventures, Equity Residential, GID, LEN×, The Moinian Group; Morgan Properties, Related Group, and Starwood Capital Group among others. “The concept of Bilt…
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage targeted oncology company, has announced the appointment of David Meek as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Mr. Meek will also join the Company’s Board of Directors. Charles M. Baum, M.D., Ph.D. will continue to lead the research and development (R&D) organization as president, founder and head of R&D. Dr.…
Fivetran, an automated data integration provider, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire HVR. This acquisition coincides with its Series D fundraise of $565M, led by Andreesen Horowitz with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, and CEAS, along with new investors D1 Capital Partners, Iconiq, and YC Continuity. The…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, has announced that it will acquire a significant stake in ICR. CDPQ will join with existing shareholders Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, and ICR team members, in order to continue the Company’s growth and expansion. “ICR has created…
South Asia Digital Freight Platform, Ezyhaul, has announced that together with Deutsche Post DHL, it has invested US$ 20 million in UK based tech start-up Digihaul. DigiHaul connects shippers to transporters through a digital freight platform, helping to tackle challenges in the supply chain industry. “This is a fantastic opportunity for us. We are very…
Live Commerce SaaS platform Swirl has raised USD 250,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by global strategic investors and angels based in the US, Singapore, Middle-East and Europe. Investors include Asheesh Khaneja – Ex WW Executive IBM, Siddarth Razdan – Founder Indianivesh FirstBridge Fund, Vineet Sharma – VP Brandscope (Dentsu), Nirmal Shah – Prism…
Emerging Vision, based in Singapore, has announced that it has secured $4 million in the Lightspeed Venture Partners led series A funding round. Saarthak Singh, co-founder of Emerging Vision, said, “Spiritual services have played a key role in people’s lives, and today’s young generation is keen to adopt new ways to implement in their daily…
White Oak Global Advisors has completed the acquisition of Finacity Corporation, a working capital and trade finance funding solutions provider. Finacity is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and will be rebranded as White Oak Finacity. Andre Hakkak, CEO of White Oak Global Advisors, said, “We are delighted to be welcoming Finacity to the White Oak family.…
Infosys has announced its collaboration with ServiceNow, the digital workflow company to provide enterprise-level service management for customers in manufacturing industries. According to a statement, through this collaboration, Infosys will leverage its industry cloud blueprints, part of Infosys Cobalt, and deploy ServiceNow Operations Technology Management (OTM), to support manufacturing industries as they digitize their factories,…
Blackbird.AI, an AI-driven Disinformation Intelligence Platform, has announced the completion of a $10M Series A fundraising led by Dorilton Ventures, with participation from new investors including Generation Ventures, Trousdale Ventures, StartFast Ventures and Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism advisor for the National Security Council. Existing investor NetX also participated. The Series A funding will allow…