Bitpanda, the European digital investment platform and Austria’s first unicorn, has named Irina Nicoleta Scarlat as its first Chief Growth Officer (CGO), effective immediately. In this newly created C-level role, Irina will take over Bitpanda’s business development and marketing teams, overseeing and driving the company’s expansion plans. She will be leading the company’s complete growth…
Shipsy, the end-to-end global trade and logistics management company dedicated to simplifying trading and logistics, has established a regional headquarter in Dubai after successfully complying with the regulations prescribed by the DMCCA (Dubai Multi Commodities Center Authority). The company said in a statement, “The move will strengthen the SaaS technology provider’s role in the GCC…
PayU, India’s online payment solutions provider, has partnered with WooCommerce, an open-source, customizable e-commerce platform, to enable WooCommerce merchants with digital payments infrastructure, and end-to-end digitalization of business processes, according to a statement. The statement added, the partnership will offer merchants exclusive pricing on transactions, no hidden charges, and contactless payment solutions to scale growth…
OYO Hotels & Homes has announced that it has named Nitin Thakur as its Head of Communications. Speaking on the announcement, Chief Growth Officer of OYO – Kavikrut commented, “At OYO, we are firm believers in communicating proactively and transparently. Since OYO’s early days, our communication strategy across the press, social media, and new emerging…
Zippo Manufacturing Company, a producer of the Zippo Windproof Lighter, has announced its plans for significant expansion of its operations in India. Following the 2020 opening of its first ever wholly-owned subsidiary in India, Zippo Lighters India PVT LTD, the company is now working with a new distribution partner, Bhawar, to expand reach and improve…
KnowBe4, the provider of the security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has announced that its SVP of people operations Erika Lance has been promoted to chief human resources officer (CHRO). She has been promoted to chief human resources officer at KnowBe4 where she will be responsible for leading the global HR team and developing…
Leadership development startup PeakPerformer has raised early-seed round from Antler India, a venture capital firm. The co-investors in the funding round were Co-founder and CEO of Unacademy Group, Gaurav Munjal and Angel Investor & Founder of Onnivation, Saket Agarwal. Aishwarya Goel, Co-founder and CEO, PeakPerformer, commented, “There are 90 million+ managers globally but only a…
Delhi based MyMobiForce (Innotion Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) has secured $1.42 Million (10.3 Crores INR) as part of Pre-Series A round of funding led by Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund with participation from Group of Angels led by Manu Iyer of Bluehill Capital, Acsys Investments and Ashutosh Agrawal (Ex-Urban Company). MyMobiForce is an AI powered crowdsourcing Platform…
Skylark Drones, a drone platform startup, has announced that it has raised $3 million in InfoEdge Ventures and IAN Fund led pre-series A funding round. Fowler Westrup, AdvantEdge Founders, Vimson Group, Redstart Labs and IKP also participated in the latest round. Skylark Drones is a technology company that is building the core infrastructure for the…
Singapore-based technology company Locad has announced that it has raised $4.9 million in Sequoia Capital India’s Surge led seed funding round. The latest round also saw participation from Global Founders Capital, Antler, Gokongwei Family, Febe Ventures, Hustle Fund and Foxmont. Constantin Robertz, CEO and Co-founder of Locad, said, “In an industry where reliability and speed…
Meddo, a healthtech platform, has announced that it has closed pre-Series A round at $6 million led by SRI Capital, Picus Capital, and Alkemi Capital. Founded in 2018 by Saurabh Kochhar and Naveen Nischal, Meddo also provides supply chain solutions that include diagnostics support and medicine delivery services. Kochhar is the former CEO and founder…
D2C brand, based in Mumbai, FRAAZO has announced that it has secured $11 million in Sixth Sense Ventures led series A financing round of equity funding. The round also saw participation from NABVENTURES as well as existing investors Equanimity Ventures, Apar Group and Vice Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Asian Paints…
Vernacular gaming platform WinZO has announced that it has raised $65 million in Series C round led by Griffin Gaming Partners. With the latest funding round, Co-Founder of Griffin Gaming Partners – Phil Sanderson will join the board of directors of WinZO. Speaking on the development, Co-Founder of Griffin Gaming Partners and Managing Director and…
Solar energy company Fourth Partner Energy has secured $125 million from The Rise Fund and Norfund. Vivek Subramanian, Co-founder and Executive Director at Fourth Partner Energy, commented, “Norfund is an established, long term, institutional investor with a strong global clean energy portfolio, committed to driving impact. We are keen on leveraging this round of funding…
PaperChainManagement BV (PCM) and its sister company, PrintMediaServices BV (PMS), has been acquired by HH Global in a deal agreed on 30 June 2021. Located in Haarlem, the Netherlands, PCM and PMS support both its domestic and international clients with procurement and supply chain optimisation services across print, POS and packaging. Existing PCM clients include…