Madison Digital has that Chintan Soni and Kosal Malladi has been elevated to the role of vice presidents. Speaking on the announcement, Vishal Chinchankar, chief executive officer at Madison Digital, commented, “Chintan and Kosal have been a great asset to the Madison Digital team, with the same vision of growing the vertical and taking business…
Testhouse has appointed Ajith Kumar as Global Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Senior Executive Vice President – Business Transformation. “In this new role, Ajith will play a key role in organisational talent acquisition and transformation and will provide strategic leadership,” the company informed in a statement. Sug Sahadevan, Founder and Group CEO of Testhouse,…
Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services, has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to strengthen hybrid cloud capabilities. According to a statement, the collaboration aims to leverage Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution to accelerate hybrid cloud transformation, consolidate virtualized workloads and build enterprise resilience. Vivek…
Mumbai-based VC Equanimity Investments has announced that it has invested an undisclosed amount of funding in Mumbai-based content economy focused start-up Thinkly in an early stage round. Thinkly helps independent writers, thinkers, journalists, and other content-creators to monetise their content via subscriptions. Founded this year by serial entrepreneurs Vivek Saxena, Navin Pai and Deepak Choithramani,…
Snipfeed have recently announced that it has raised a $5.5 million seed round with investment from Charles River Ventures; Abstract Ventures; Ali Hamed at Crossbeam; id8; Michael Ovitz, founder of CAA; Michael Bosstick, co-founder and CEO of Dear Media; management agency Up North; and European funds Isai, Diaspora and First Capital. The company said that investments…
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced the appointment of Ms. Noopur Chaturvedi as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. (NBBL). As CEO, Ms. Chaturvedi’s mandate is to work on RBI’s vision to scale up the Bharat Bill Pay platform and make it the most preferred solution for all bill…
Cart.com, the first end-to-end ecommerce services provider, has announced the close of a $98 million Series B round, bringing the company’s total funding since its launch eight months ago to more than $140 million. The round was led by Oak HC/FT, a premier venture growth equity fund investing in tech-enabled healthcare and financial services companies,…
SG Analytics, a research and data analytics services provider, has appointed Kulwinder Singh as the firm’s Chief Marketing Officer. As the CMO, he will be leading the company’s brand management, digital marketing, public relations, and employer branding initiatives. Kulwinder has more than 20 years of experience in senior marketing, communication, and brand management roles. Previously,…
Cambay Consulting, a global digital transformation company, has announced that Guru Kandarpi joins them as a Global Head of Microsoft Practice. Guru will be responsible for re-imagining the next generation of Digital Services, Solutions, and Global Delivery Models on top of Microsoft Cloud Technologies to help our customers drive complex digital transformations. He will also…
TaxBit, a tax and accounting software provider for the digital economy, has announced a $130 million Series B funding round at a $1.33 billion valuation. The round was led by IVP and Insight Partners with additional participation including Tiger Global, Paradigm, 9Yards Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and Anthony Pompliano. In conjunction with the…
Dentsu International has announced the appointment of Phil Adrien to the role CEO, Creative, Asia-Pacific. In this role Phil will be responsible for leading dentsu’s Asia Pacific creative business, to deliver creative transformation and growth for clients. Dentsu’s creative business in this region includes global agencies dentsuMB and Isobar, and regional and local agencies such…
LocoNav, a disruptive full-stack fleet-tech startup, has announced the appointment of Anjali Joshi to its Board of Directors, effective July 30, 2021. Anjali brings over 30 years of experience, including more than a decade at Google (former VP – Product Management), in building large-scale product platforms. “LocoNav is primed to disrupt the large-scale enterprise fleet-tech…
Software solutions provider Nirmata has announced that it has secured $4 million in pre-Series A funding round. The latest funding round was led by Z5 Capital, along with participation from Samsung Next, Uncorrelated Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures, as well as angel investors including BV Jagadeesh and Saqib Syed. “Kubernetes gives a lot of flexibility in…
Grip Invest, a financial technology platform, has announced that it has secured $3 million in a Venture Highway and Endiya Partners co-led series A funding round. Investors including AdvantEdge and existing investors such as Gemba Capital and Anicut Angel Fund, along with angel investors Satyen Kothari, Gaurav Gupta, Akash Sinha and Reeju Datta, Ankit Agarwal…
Proteon Pharmaceuticals India, a subsidiary of Proteon Pharmaceuticals SA, has announced an investment of 21 million Euro (approx. INR 200 crores) to accelerate commercialization of its products in aquaculture and livestock farming as well as to further develop its microbiome platform technology. The financing round was led by the Nutreco, Aqua-Spark and PFR Life Science,…