Tag: Avaneesh Nirjar

Policybazaar raises $150M from Tencent.

Policybazaar, India’s prominent online life insurance and general insurance aggregator, has raised raised close to $150 million in funding from Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent Holdings Pvt. Ltd. The startup was founded by Yashish Dahiya, Alok Bansal and Avaneesh Nirjar in 2008. With this round, Policybazaar has been valued at a little more than $1.5 billion.…