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GetVantage appoints Sajid Sundrani as Head of Investments; Sneha Shah as Director, Growth & Partnerships

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GetVantage, a revenue-based financing investment & growth platform for digital businesses, announced it has appointed Sajid Sundrani as Head of Investments and Sneha Shah as Director, Growth & Partnerships to target new investment opportunities across sectors, expand its extensive partner ecosystem, scale its special projects division, and enter newer markets in the region. With 14 years of experience across venture capital, angel investments, consulting & entrepreneurship, Sajid Sundrani joins GetVantage from…

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Clinovo ropes in Life Sciences exec Nandish Poluru as its CEO

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Clinovo, a technology focused Clinical services provider that accelerates Clinical Development for Life Sciences industry appoints Nandish Poluru as Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. As an executive at the intersection of Lifesciences, Operations and Technology, Nandish has over two decades of experience in successfully accelerating Research and Development efforts for multiple companies across the Lifesciences industry. He…

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Bengaluru-based fintech startup Jar raises Series B round at $300 mn valuation

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Fintech startup Jar announced it has raised $22.6 million in Series B funding round led by existing investor Tiger Global. Post funding, the startup is valued at $300 million. Existing investors Arkam Ventures, Eximius Ventures, Force Ventures, LetsVenture, Rocketship Venture Capital and WEH Ventures also participated in the funding round. A new set of funds…

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Metamaxx.io parent Copperpod Digital Inc. closes funding with KFC Ventures

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Copperpod Digital Inc., the parent company of Metamaxx.io, announced that it raised USD 10 million in funding. The investment comes in cash and with business support from KFC Ventures, Nityo Group’s corporate venture arm, which invests in global early-stage and growth-stage B2B start-ups. KFC Ventures has invested in Copperpod Digital to help grow its operations…

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Bacardi Ltd ropes in consumer goods exec Dave Ingram to lead operations

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Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, announces the appointment of Dave Ingram as Chief Supply Chain Officer. Dave brings 30 years of supply chain and strategic sourcing experience to Bacardi where he will lead the end-to-end supply chain experience — from achieving our goal of sustainably sourcing key ingredients, to leading operations sites across the…

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Suki appoints Belwadi Srikanth as VP of Product and Design; Anmol Rastogi as Senior Director, Product Management

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Suki, a company that provides voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, announced that it has grown its product team with the addition of two lead executives. Belwadi Srikanth joins the company as the new vice president of product and design along with Anmol Rastogi, who was named senior director of product management. Srikanth joins Suki…

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Amazon’s Sameer Mandge joins GoKwik as Director of Products

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Gokwik, an e-commerce enabler providing full stack solutions for e-commerce brands, has announced the appointment of Sameer Mandge as its Director of Products. Sameer joins GoKwik from Amazon India where he helped the e-commerce giant solve problems related to returns of goods (RTO or return to origin in e-commerce parlance) and creating products to ensure…

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Shiprocket turns unicorn with $32 mn funding

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Tech-enabled logistics and fulfillment platform Shiprocket has approved a Rs 259 crore ($32 million) fundraising round from existing investors Singapore’s Temasek and Lightrock India, according to ET report. Other investors in the current round include Bertelsmann India, March Capital Partners, Moore Strategic Ventures, Huddle Collective and Paypal. “Internal investors were keen to double down on…

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Solar technology startup Renkube bags seed funding from CIIE.CO

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Renkube, a renewable energy-focused deep technology startup, announced it has secured $300,000 (around Rs 2.4 crores) in a seed funding round led by CIIE.CO, according to ET report. JITO Angel Network and K4 Forum Mumbai Network also participated in this round. Halliburton Labs, a wholly owned subsidiary of Halliburton Company, is participating via Renkube’s selection…

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Edvoy announces expansion; opens new office in Hyderabad

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Edvoy, a tech platform supporting and enabling international study abroad education, expands its presence in Hyderabad with new offices to accommodate its continued growth. The new office inauguration was done by Naveen Mittal (IAS), Commissioner, Collegiate Education & Technical Education at Government of Telangana. Previously operating as IEC Abroad, Edvoy focused on using technology to simplify students’…

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Imaging Endpoints names Jatinder Kaur as Chief Operating Officer

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Imaging Endpoints (IE), based in Scottsdale, Arizona with eight offices in six countries, announced the promotion of Jatinder Kaur to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Jatinder most recently served as Executive Vice President of Operations at Imaging Endpoints, and has been with the Company for over eight years. She has led the company’s global expansion, building IE into one of…

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Pega appoints Naznine Tilak as VP of Learning, Development, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

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Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA), the low-code platform provider that builds agility into the world’s leading organizations, announced the appointment of Naznine Tilak as vice president of learning, development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B). Naznine will spearhead Pega’s efforts to design and implement its near-term and multi-year strategy for its learning and development programs while continuing…

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Nexgen Energia plans to foray into ethanol segment, to invest Rs 300cr

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Clean fuel energy company Nexgen Energia announced its expansion plan to enter the Ethanol segment and set up plants across the country. The company plans to invest around Rs. 300cr into its upcoming projects in the coming fiscal year, a statement said. The Government of India has already made strategic interventions by expanding the ethanol…

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EV startup Exponent Energy raises $13 mn Series A round led by Lightspeed

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Exponent Energy (e^), an Electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging startup, announced it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to ET report. Existing institutional investors such as YourNest VC, 3one4 Capital & AdvantEdge VC also participated in the funding round. The new round will help scale e^…

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Fluence appoints Krishna Vanka as SVP and Chief Digital Officer

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Fluence Energy, Inc. (Fluence), a global provider of energy storage products and services, and digital applications for renewables and storage, announced that effective August 29, Krishna Vanka will join the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer to lead the strategic growth of Fluence’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. Krishna joins the company at a…

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