Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising company, has announced the appointments of Masatsune Shironishi as Managing Director, Japan, and Nicole Prior as Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, as Xandr continues to invest across APAC. Masatsune’s appointment is effective immediately and Nicole’s role is effective November 1st. As Managing Director, Japan, Masatsune Shironishi will be responsible…
Agritech platform Farmers Fresh Zone has announced that it has raised Rs 6 crore in pre-series A funding round from existing investors. The fresh funding round was saw participation from Indian Angel Network (IAN), IAN Fund, Native Angel Network and Malabar Angel Network. Speaking on the investment, Pradeep PS, Founder and CEO – Farmers Fresh…
Mavenick Consulting, the parent company of KlearStack, has announced signing of definitive agreements for a strategic investment round led by GI Projects Pte. Ltd., Singapore (part of Virenxia group) and India based ITCube Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Mavenick Consulting has been providing Artificial Intelligence solutions to industries globally since 2018. Their KlearStack SaaS platform offers end-to-end…
Managed accommodation platform Stanza Living has appointed Sudipta Banerjee as Chief Technology Officer. A statement informed, “Banarjee has close to two decades of experience in building and scaling large internet-based products across Media tech, Ad tech, Fintech, Consumer Internet and Financial Service industries.” Anindya Dutta, Co-Founder and MD, Stanza Living, commented, “Technology is a key enabler for Stanza…
Lawn care platform TruGreen has appointed Rebecca Schoepfer as its Chief Human Resources Officer. A statement informed, “As CHRO, Schoepfer will be responsible for TruGreen’s overall strategic human resources initiatives, including establishing and implementing various policies such as compensation, benefits, recruiting, talent management, learning and training, and employee communication.” John Cowles, President and CEO, TruGreen,…
Skydweller Aero Inc., a U.S.-Spanish aerospace company developing solar powered aircraft for defense and commercial industries, has announced it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round. This new figure reflects $8 million of additional funding after the aerospace company previously reported its Series A close in 2019. The financing was led…
Zapr Media Labs, a media-tech startup that provides granular TV viewership data, has announced a partnership with PubMatic, a sell-side platform that delivers outcomes for digital advertising, to make its audience data segments available across PubMatic’s publisher network in India. Zapr uses proprietary audio content recognition (ACR) technology to understand content consumption across TV and…
Databricks, the Data and AI company, has announced the final closing of their recent Series H funding. Cloud leaders and existing investors Amazon Web Services (AWS), CapitalG, and Microsoft will participate in Databricks’ $1.6 billion round of funding, which puts the company at a $38 billion post-money valuation. The Series H funding will be used…
D2C food startup Anveshan has said that it has secured Rs 3.67 crore in DSG Consumer Partners led seed funding round. The round also saw participation from Titan Capital and Avaana Capital’s Anjali Bansal along with boAt Lifestyle and Beardo founders. Speaking on the funding, Aayushi Khandelwal, Co-founder, Anveshan, stated, “We, as a brand, wish to…
Leap has announced that it has secured $55 million in series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. Harvard Management Company as well as Sequoia Capital India and Jungle Ventures also participated in the funding round. Speaking on the funding, Vaibhav Singh, co-founder of Leap, commented, “We have seen an unprecedented demand from students to…
Biotech startup immunitoAI has announced that it has secured $1 million in the Pi Ventures led seed funding round. The round also saw participation from existing investor Entrepreneur First. An official statement informed, “the funds raised by the startup will be deployed for product development and industry partnerships.” Aridni Shah, CEO and Co-founder of immunitoAI,…
ZNet Technologies, a cloud services distributor offering cloud infrastructure and managed services, has announced that it is expanding its distribution partnership with Acronis in six countries, namely Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. “Acronis’ AI-based unified data protection and cybersecurity solution meets a critical need to secure remote and hybrid networks against the…
Financial service platform WeRize has announced that it has secured $8 million in series A funding round led by 3one4 Capital, Kalaari Capital, and others. The round also saw participation from Orios Ventures and Picus Capital. Vishal Chopra & Himanshu Gupta, Co-founders of WeRize, commented, “We are creating a new category in the Indian financial…
Zeotap, the next-gen Customer Data Platform, has announced an $11m extension to its Series C round. The extension follows the company raising $42m in July 2020, which was followed by an initial extension of $18.5m in November from SignalFire’s Breakout Fund. This new extension takes place to enable new investors such as Liberty Global Ventures…
BEAUTY PIE, a luxury beauty buyers’ club, has announced completion of a Series B financing round of $100m. Index Ventures co-led the round with US-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners, existing investors Balderton Capital and General Catalyst and Latitude VC, sister fund to London-based seed investor LocalGlobe. This brings BEAUTY PIE’s…