Gurugram-based agritech startup Bijak recently announced that it has raised $12mn in series A funding round. The funding round saw participation from over half a dozen investors including existing investors Sequoia-owned Surge Ventures and Omidyar Network. Earlier in October, the startup had raised $2.5mn in seed funding. Bijak was also among the 20 startups picked…
Reliance Industries Ltd, Jio Platforms Ltd and Facebook, Inc. announced the signing of binding agreements for an investment of ₹ 43,574 crore by Facebook, acquiring 9.9% equity share in Jio Platforms. This investment by Facebook values Jio Platforms at ₹ 4.62 lakh crore pre-money enterprise value. “This is the largest investment for a minority stake…
Venture Capital firm Quest Ventures recently announced the first closure of its new $50mn fund. The new fund, Asia Fund II, is anchored with the help of two investors, Pavilion Capital and QazTech Ventures, the sovereign wealth fund of Kazakhstan. In addition to Pavilion and QazTech, Fund II is also backed by entrepreneurs, C-suite executives,…
Online real estate rental platform NoBroker.com recently announced that it has raised $30million in Series D funding round by General Atlantic. Reportedly, this is the third investment by the Singapore-based Venture Capitalist firm in the startup. The company said this is an extension of its Series D funding, as part of which it had raised…
Wellthy Therapeutics, a diabetes management startup, has recently raised $4mn in a pre-Series A funding round from early-stage VC firm Saamna Capital. The recent funding in the startup comes after a two year gap when the company had raised seed funding from Ranjan Pai’s family office MEMG, according to an Entrackr report. In 2018, the…
Mumbai-based on-demand logistics marketplace, Porter, has recently announced it has raised ₹140Cr in Series D funding round from Lightstone Global Fund. The recent fund infusion comes at a time when logistics is a big issue for the organizations that are delivering essential services at doorstep due to ongoing lockdown. According to the company filings made…
Gurugram and Patna-based agritech startup DeHaat recently announced that it has raised $12mn (₹83Cr) from investors. The recent funding round was led by Sequoia India and saw participation from FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank along with existing investors Omnivore and AgFunder. According to the company website, DeHaat is a technology-based platform offering full-stack agricultural…
Gurugram-based foodtech unicorn Zomato recently announced that it has raised $5mn in its Series J funding round. The funding round was led by Pacific Horizon Investment Trust PLC through its agent Baillie Gifford and Company. According to company regulatory filing, Pacific Horizon has been allotted 1,177 Compulsorily Convertible Cumulative Preference Shares (CCCPS). Each of these…
Food delivery platform Swiggy has recently raised $43mn in its ongoing Series I funding round. The funding round was led by existing investor Tencent and saw participation from Ark Impact Asset Management, Korea Investment Partners (KIP) and MACM India Growth Fund. The company had initiated its Series I round in February and had raised $113…
Elearning platform Lido Learning recently announced that it has raised $3mn in Series B funding from Rocket Internet founder-backed Picus Capital and Paytm President Madhur Deora. This is the Mumbai-based startup’s second fundraiser within just one year of its inception. The edtech startup had earlier raised $3mn in Series A funding round in November last…
Mumbai-based early-stage fund Unicorn India Ventures recently announced the first close of its second equity fund at $12 million. The ₹400Cr second equity fund was announced last year and the funds for it have been raised from domestic investors comprising family offices and investors from the first fund. It is targeting to raise the total…
QTalk, a smartphone dialer designed to make phone calls stress free has now secured $1.6 million in the seed funding round led by the LightSpeed Venture Partners and Accel India to accelerate product and market development. QTalk is the only public product of Quiph Media Private Limited that initiated operations in early 2018. Founded by…
Log management platform Humio, recently announced that it has raised $20mn in Series B funding round. The funding round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, the global venture capital investment arm of Dell Technologies along with existing investor Accel. With the recent investment, the company plans to increase its capabilities to keep pace with demand…
CoreStack, a Seattle- Chennai based, venture-backed, Enterprise-Cloud Governance Technology Startup with R&D Centre in Chennai, recently announced an $8.5 million in Series A Financing round led by Naya Ventures with participation from strategic investors. With the recent funding, the company plans to add 20 more cloud specialists to its existing workforce of 64 in its…
MeraKisan Private Ltd., a part of the Mahindra Group, and a prominent player in the organic agribusiness market, with a focus on avant-garde organic food supply chains, recently announced its partnership with Ajinkya Rahane, Vice-Captain of the Indian Test Cricket team. Ajinkya who hails from a farming background and is an ardent supporter of farmers…