MOURI Tech, a global enterprise IT solutions provider, has announced its commitment to contribute to the creation of job opportunities in India, a total of 10,000 new jobs in the next 3 years across domain and locations. Out of this, the first set of 2000 new jobs will be in the FY year 2021-2022. The…
Home Construction Community Kolo has announced that it has raised $550K in Better Capital led pre-seed funding round. Speaking on the announcement, Jery Althaf, Co-Founder of Kolo, commented, “We found that decision-making in home construction is inherently a ‘social’ activity. The homeowners go through huge volumes of content and interact with their family, relatives, and…
Healthtech platform, based in Hyderabad, Hera has announced that it has secured $1 million in seed round from angel investors. Speaking on the announcement, founder Vaishnavi Raju commented, ”There is a huge, unaddressed gap in women’s healthcare in India. If you look at the numbers, you see it — 500 million+ women, 50 percent of…
Bengaluru and Mumbai-based learning and community platform FrontRow has said that it has secured $14 million in Eight Roads Ventures and GSV led series A funding round. Existing investors including Lightspeed and Elevation Capital along with angel investors participated in the funding round. Akshay Bhushan, Partner at Lightspeed, commented, “FrontRow is the pioneer of the…
Bilt Rewards has announced a growth funding round of $60 million, with investment from Wells Fargo, Mastercard, and a group of the real estate owners including Blackstone, AvalonBay Communities, Douglas Elliman, New Valley Ventures, Equity Residential, GID, LEN×, The Moinian Group; Morgan Properties, Related Group, and Starwood Capital Group among others. “The concept of Bilt…
Fivetran, an automated data integration provider, has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire HVR. This acquisition coincides with its Series D fundraise of $565M, led by Andreesen Horowitz with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, and CEAS, along with new investors D1 Capital Partners, Iconiq, and YC Continuity. The…
Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, has announced that it will acquire a significant stake in ICR. CDPQ will join with existing shareholders Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, and ICR team members, in order to continue the Company’s growth and expansion. “ICR has created…
South Asia Digital Freight Platform, Ezyhaul, has announced that together with Deutsche Post DHL, it has invested US$ 20 million in UK based tech start-up Digihaul. DigiHaul connects shippers to transporters through a digital freight platform, helping to tackle challenges in the supply chain industry. “This is a fantastic opportunity for us. We are very…
Live Commerce SaaS platform Swirl has raised USD 250,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by global strategic investors and angels based in the US, Singapore, Middle-East and Europe. Investors include Asheesh Khaneja – Ex WW Executive IBM, Siddarth Razdan – Founder Indianivesh FirstBridge Fund, Vineet Sharma – VP Brandscope (Dentsu), Nirmal Shah – Prism…
Emerging Vision, based in Singapore, has announced that it has secured $4 million in the Lightspeed Venture Partners led series A funding round. Saarthak Singh, co-founder of Emerging Vision, said, “Spiritual services have played a key role in people’s lives, and today’s young generation is keen to adopt new ways to implement in their daily…
Blackbird.AI, an AI-driven Disinformation Intelligence Platform, has announced the completion of a $10M Series A fundraising led by Dorilton Ventures, with participation from new investors including Generation Ventures, Trousdale Ventures, StartFast Ventures and Richard Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism advisor for the National Security Council. Existing investor NetX also participated. The Series A funding will allow…
Intenseye, the AI-powered employee health and safety (EHS) company, has announced a $25 million Series A investment led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. Existing Seed investors Point Nine and Air Street Capital invested significantly in the round and were joined by Alex Dalyac, CEO of insurance computer vision…
FloBiz, a neobank for SMBs, has announced that it has secured $31 million in the Sequoia Capital India and Think Investments led series B funding round. The round also saw participation from existing investors including Beenext and Elevation Capital. Angel investors like Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Shah, Jiten Gupta, Amrish Rau, Neeraj Arora, Nitin Gupta,…
Emerging Markets Global Advisory Limited (EMGA), the niche investment bank focused on emerging markets, has announced a Senior Debt capital raise transaction that will allow BTG Pactual to expand its small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) activities in Brazil. The US$300 million debt facility was provided by DFC and follows on from a US$140 million transaction…
Sorare, the fantasy football platform, has announced that it has raised $680 million in Series B financing led by Softbank, with participation from Atomico, Bessemer Ventures, D1 Capital, Eurazeo, IVP and Liontree; and existing investors Benchmark, Accel and Headline. Football players Gerard Piqué, Antoine Griezmann, Rio Ferdinand and César Azpilicueta also participated in the round. In addition…