S4M, a drive-to-store platform for tier-1 retailers, restaurants & auto dealerships, has announced the appointment of Armelle Quenard as Chief People Officer to lead the company’s human resources strategy and development. Armelle started her career at telecommunications giant Bouygues Group, where she spent 12 years as HR Generalist for their Bouygues Telecom subsidiary. She then…
Axtria, a global cloud software and data analytics provider that helps life sciences businesses bring therapeutics to the market faster, said that it is expanding its business operations in India. Axtria recently received a $150 million growth investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. A part of the capital will be infused into India operations to…
SuperGaming, a game development company, has announced its Series A funding of USD 5.5 million led by Skycatcher, and included AET Fund (venture arm of Akatsuki), BAce Capital, Dream Incubator, 1Up Ventures, and Monish Darda. The new corpus will support SuperGaming’s talent expansion by 60% to build its publishing division, market existing titles, and launch…
Camp K12, an ed-tech startup operating out of the US and India, focused on building a global online school for 21st century skills, has announced that it has raised $12M in a Series A round co-led by Matrix Partners India and Elevation Capital. Funds will be used to hire leaders across functions, hyperscale operations and…
Martech SaaS company, Netcore Cloud, has announced its collaboration with India’s EdTech Platform, BYJU’S towards personalizing the student’s learning experience on the mobile app, backed by their No-code Product Experience platform’s consumer data management system, according to a statement. The statement said, “Since the last few years, Netcore Cloud has made major strides in expanding…
MeitY Startup Hub (MSH), an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), focussed on building a deep tech ecosystem across India, has entered into a partnership with MergerDomo, a fundraising and startup advisory platform. According to a statement, the said collaboration shall support the startups on various aspects such as investor engagement, corporate…
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire NN Investment Partners from NN Group N.V. for approximately €1.6 billion1. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory and other approvals and conditions. NN Investment Partners employs more…
Energy Vault, the creator of gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage solutions with its proprietary technology, has announced $100 million in Series C funding. The investment is being led by existing investor Prime Movers Lab, with additional participation from other existing investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Helena, and Idealab X. In addition, the…
Locus, a future-ready platform that automates supply chain decisions, has partnered with Tracker, a provider of telematics solutions in South Africa, to power an end-to-end Planning, Optimization and Execution Management platform. The partnership leverages Tracker’s telematics expertise and footprint combined with specialist software capability from Locus to provide a holistic supply chain management solution, according…
Prime Venture Partners, has announced its fourth fund of US$100 million, with a first close of $75 million (INR 556 crore). Prime had raised its last fund of $72M in 2018, a second fund of $46M in 2015 and a $8M first fund in 2012. Fund Four investors include the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part…
DigitSec, a provider of AppSec testing platform purpose-built for Salesforce, and UST, a digital transformation solutions company, has announced a partnership to provide full-spectrum application security testing as part of a comprehensive Salesforce portfolio for enterprise customers, according to a statement. UST will offer its clients the DigitSec SaaS Security Scanner™- S4 for Salesforce™ as…
Moolec, a science-based ingredients company using plants to produce animal proteins, and Grupo Insud, a global conglomerate with presence in the manufacturing of biosimilars and other active ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry, has announced their partnership to research and develop solutions for the alternative protein industry. The statement said, “The Joint Venture will use yeast,…
Fragomen has announced that Washington, DC immigration lawyer Monique van Stiphout has joined the firm as a DC-based partner. “Monique’s experience dovetails perfectly with our practice, including our ambitious expansion plans and goals as the preeminent global immigration law firm, and our vision for the future,” said Andrew Greenfield, managing partner of Fragomen’s DC office…
Pocket FM, India’s audio OTT player, has appointed Ankket Jain as Vice President, Creative Solutions, and Manish Nagar as Agency Relationship Head. It intends to bolster its revenue and propel the monetization team. Pocket FM has more than 25 million users & 2 billion monthly listening minutes and plans to continue driving growth by offering…
CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company, has named two leaders to C-level posts to accelerate global expansion and operations. Peter Meechan, former chief corporate development officer at Automation Anywhere, joins as chief corporate development officer (CCDO). Jinny Jun, former senior vice president and head of people strategy at Welldoc, joins as chief people officer (CPO).…