Tag: Apoorva Ranjan Sharma

Ecommerce startup Evenflow raises $5 mn funding from Village Global, Others

Even flow Brands (Evenflow), an ecommerce rollup, announced it has raised $5 million in funding from a clutch of investors, according to ETtech report. The startup partners with digital-first brands that sell on ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho, JioMart, and others, and helps to scale them profitably. Village Global, 9Unicorns, Venture Catalysts, LetsVenture, Shiprocket,…

NCOME raises ₹3.6 cr funding led by Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns, others

Escrow-as-a-Service platform NCOME has secured Rs 3.6 crore funding led by Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns, PointOne Capital and LetsVenture, according to a PTI report. NCOME offers enterprise and individual customers with fast, secure, and low-cost digital escrow service, the company said in a statement. NCOME leverages technology to streamline conventional processes through online KYCs and digital…

Mumbai-based Callify.ai raises seed funding

Callify.ai, a Voice-Based Candidate Screening & Engagement platform for Talent Acquisition teams, has raised $560,000 in a seed funding round led by Malpani Ventures  Startup incubator and accelerator Venture Catalysts, the UAE-based Calega Ventures, The Chennai Angel Network and Marvari Angel Network also participated in this round, the statement said. Founded in 2016 by Chetan…

Mumbai-based trading platform AlgoBulls raises funding from Venture Catalysts

AlgoBulls Technologies Pvt Ltd, an algorithmic trading platform focussed on stock markets, has raised funds from startup incubator and accelerator Venture Catalysts. Financial details of the funding remain undisclosed. Founded in 2019 by Suraj Bathija, Jimmit Patel and Pushpak Dagade, AlgoBulls provides its customers with Fully Automated Algorithmic Trading & ready-to-use stock market knowledge.  “The…

ClanConnect.ai raises Rs5 cr funding led by Venture Catalysts

ClanConnect.ai, a Delhi-based platform that connects influencers to brands, announced it has raised Rs 5 crore funding led by Venture Catalysts. Angel investors Samrath Bedi, managing director of Forest Essentials; Sandeep Aggarwal, founder, Droom.in; Aakrit Vaish, co-founder of Haptik; and Haresh Hingorani, chief creative officer, along with Redchillies VFX, participated in the funding round. Founded…

BluSmart raises $7 mn in pre-Series A funding round

BluSmart, India’s first all electric shared smart mobility platform, announced that it has raised pre-Series A funding of $7 million from multiple investors. Investors that took part in the funding round are Inflection Point Ventures, Venture Catalysts, Survam Partners, Mumbai Angels, Chhatisgarh Investments Ltd, JITO Angels, LetsVenture Fund, and Kaplavriksh Fund.  BluSmart said in a…

Marico acquires Ahmedabad-based men’s grooming startup Beardo

Marico, one of India’s leading consumer products companies operating in the global beauty and wellness space, announced that it has acquired Ahmedabad-based men’s grooming startup Beardo, according to a YourStory report.  Founded in 2015 by Ashutosh Valani and Priyank Shah, Beardo is an official brand manufacturer of natural ordinary oils for bearded men. It is…

Robotics startup Peppermint raises funding from Venture Catalysts, others

Peppermint, an IIT-Bombay incubated industrial robotics startup, announced that it has received an undisclosed amount of equity funding from Venture Catalysts, said the startup in a press release today. Naveen Kshatriya, former head of Castrol Asia and ANZ also participated in this seed funding round.  Peppermint said they will use the current financing to scale…

New Delhi-based F5 raises seed funding led by Venture Catalysts

F5, a New Delhi-based retail aggregator building India’s first aggregated network of branded refreshment stores by partnering with existing refreshment vendors, announced that it has raised seed funding from Venture Catalysts, India’s first integrated incubator, according to YourStory report. Financial details of the funding remain undisclosed. F5 was founded in 2018 by Raghav Arora and…

Crunchbase ranks Venture Catalysts at No.7 Globally

Venture Catalysts, India’s integrated incubator and accelerator platform, and among Asia’s top three, has been ranked No. 7 globally as the most active angel & seed stage investors in 2019 by global market research firm Crunchbase. The rankings are based on the findings across 9,892 early-stage deals done in 2019, worldwide. In 2019, Venture Catalysts…