Category: Investment

Tube Investments forays into Electric Small Commercial Vehicle segment and augments R&D capability through 50% equity stake acquisition in Jayem Automotive

TI Clean Mobility Private Limited (TICMPL), a subsidiary of Tube Investments of India Limited (TII) announced its entry into the largest segment of commercial vehicles in India with its fourth Electric Vehicle platform. TICMPL will float a new subsidiary company to commercialize eSCV (electric small commercial vehicles). In this regard, TICMPL entered into an agreement…

Global study abroad company Leverage Edu raises funding led by ETS

Leverage Edu, a Noida-based overseas-focused higher education counselling platform run by Leverage EdTech Pvt Ltd, announced it has secured Series C funding of $40 million led by Princeton-based language testing conglomerate ETS, according to VCCircle report. The round also saw participation from its existing investors like Blume Ventures, DSG Consumer Partners and Kaizenvest PE. The existing round, valuing the…

Chennai-based Kaar Technologies raises $30 mn led by A91 Partners

Kaar Technologies, a Business-to-business (B2B) software consultancy firm, raised around $30 million in its recent funding round led by A91 Partners, according to moneycontrol report. Gautam Mago and Kaushik Anand, partners at A91 Partners, will join the Board of KaarTech, the company said on July 3. “This association with A91 will bolster our ability to…

Motherson and Marelli inaugurate the First-Ever Tool Room for Automotive Lighting in India

Motherson, in collaboration with Marelli, announced the inauguration of Motherson Automotive Lighting Tool Room (MALT), a ground-breaking facility that marks a significant milestone in automotive lighting technology. This is the first-ever tool room in India dedicated to automotive lighting. The plant was inaugurated by Mr. R.C. Bhargava, Chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., and Mr.…

TerraPay expands its presence in Morocco

TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, has announced its partnership with Attijariwafa bank, Morocco’s largest banking group by market capitalization, to facilitate real-time and seamless global money transfers directly to bank accounts in Morocco. This partnership will allow Attijariwafa bank to leverage TerraPay’s well-established global partner networks and receive inbound cross-border payments from various sending…

Visa to acquire Pismo

Visa announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo, a cloud-native issuer processing and core banking platform with operations in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe, for $1 billion in cash. By acquiring Pismo, Visa will be positioned to provide core banking and issuer processing capabilities across debit, prepaid, credit and commercial cards…

P&G India announces an investment of ₹2000 Cr in Gujarat to set up an export hub in India

Procter & Gamble India announced that it will invest ₹2000 Crore to set up a new state-of-the-art personal healthcare manufacturing facility in Gujarat. The investment was announced by LV Vaidyanathan, CEO, P&G India, in a meeting with Bhupendra Patel, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat. The facility builds on top of the P&G India’s existing manufacturing…

Mythical Games Secures First Close of $37 Million Towards Latest Round of Funding

Mythical Games, the next-generation gaming studio behind the Mythical Chain, Mythical Marketplace, and popular gaming titles such as NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party, and the soon-to-be-released Nitro Nation World Tour, has secured $37 million as part of its Series C1. Led by digital asset manager Scytale Digital, with participation from ARK Invest, Animoca Brands, PROOF, Stanford Athletics, MoonPay, as…

KKR enters into amendment to definitive merger agreement with CIRCOR International

CIRCOR International, Inc. (CIRCOR), one of the world’s leading providers of mission critical flow control products and services for the Industrial and Aerospace & Defense markets, announced that it has accepted a proposal from affiliates of investment funds managed by KKR to increase the price of its previously announced definitive merger agreement with CIRCOR from…

Vonage opens research and development Centre of Excellence in India

Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, announced that it is furthering its commitment to driving innovation by opening a Research and Development (R&D) Centre of Excellence in India. Based in Bengaluru, the heart of India’s high-tech industry, Vonage’s expanding R&D team will focus on building new features and…

SourceCode expands global AI presence with acquisition of Boston Limited

SourceCode, a pioneer of co-designed, custom, certified IT systems for next generation AI infrastructure spanning the cloud, datacenter and edge, announced that it has agreed to acquire UK-EU-based Boston Limited, a leading provider of high-performance server and storage solutions for the significant growth in business around data, media, and AI as well as traditional IT…

Kasmo partners with Databricks and sets up a new development centre in Hyderabad

Kasmo, a digital IT consulting firm specializing in Salesforce, Data, Analytics & AI, and Digital Engineering, has announced its strategic partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company and a global leader in unified Data Analytics and AI. In line with this collaboration, Kasmo is also setting up a state-of-the-art development center in Hyderabad, showcasing a…

Sneaker reselling platform Mainstreet Marketplace raises $2 mn from Deepinder Goyal, Nikhil Kamath, others

Sneaker reseller Mainstreet Marketplace has closed a $2 million (around Rs 16 crore) seed funding round from a clutch of investors, including Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal’s First Lap LLP, Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath and Abhijeet Pai’s venture fund Gruhas Proptech, Udaan co-founder Sujeet Kumar, Spotify India MD Amarjit Singh Batra, and several other angel investors…