Virohan, a healthcare vocational institute that provides progressive livelihoods to youth from low-income backgrounds, announced that it has raised $2.8 million across its seed and series A funding rounds. The seed funding round was led by Keiretsu Forum and Series A round was led by the elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization and by the…
OneCode, a digital distribution platform, announced that it has raised seed financing led by WaterBridge Ventures, a early-stage venture capital firm. Financial details of the seed funding remain undisclosed. Angel investors such as Miten Sampat, Former Times Internet chief strategy officer, Haptik founder Aakrit Vaish, One Impression founder Apaksh Gupta, Appyhigh founder Venus Dhuria, as…
Shef, the US-based homemade food marketplace that enables cooks to sell meals in their local communities, announced it has raised $8.8 million in seed funding from investors including Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp. Founded in 2018 by Alvin Salehi…
Trellus Health, a resilience-driven digital health solution for chronic conditions, announced that it has raised $5 million of seed funding led by Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) and EKF Diagnostics, a global medical manufacturer of point-of-care and central lab devices and tests. The company will use the funds to transform the way chronic conditions are…
Lootcakes, the world’s first network devoted to spenders in free-to-play games, announced that it has raised a $2 million seed funding led by Konvoy Ventures. Other investors that participated in the round include SOSV and GAN Ventures. The company will use the funds to develop and release a Lootcakes consumer mobile app to sit alongside…
Able Jobs, a Bengaluru-based startup that helps companies get entry-level non-tech deployable talent, announced that it has raised $1.8 million in a seed funding round led by SAIF Partners, according to an ETtech report. Other investors that participated in the funding round include Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator, Snapdeal founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit…
Stack Finance, a Gurugram-based millennial finance platform, announced that it has raised seed funding from SOSV (an early-stage venture capital fund in the US) and MOX – its Mobile Only Accelerator, according to YourStory report. Financial details of the funding remain undisclosed. Other investors that took part in the funding round include AngelList India and…
Torre, a new professional network for remote job seekers and recruiters, announced that it has oversubscribed its $5 million seed funding investment round. With more than 7,000 openings per month, Torre has positioned itself as the largest platform that compiles remote full-time jobs and gained substantial momentum since its 2018 inception. The round’s investment stack…
CityCash, a Mumbai-based fintech startup bringing state-of-the-art technologies and disruptive business models in the digital payments space, announced that it has raised $1 million seed funding from Orios Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund. CityCash will use the current financing for expanding market access, merchant ecosystem, and to develop technology to deploy Open Loop…
Terra.do, an online climate school, announced that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round led by Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs (India), Beenext Emerging Asia, Zerodha-backed Rainmatter Capital, and prominent angels from the Indian and US ecosystem, according to YourStory report. The startup runs online learning programmes and has a community that helps individuals across…
Altis Biosystems announced completion of a seed series investment from VentureSouth. Local investors including RTP Capital and Hatteras Ventures, and other syndicate partners across the US including Atlanta Technology Angels and Central Texas Angel Network also participated in the funding round. Altis was formed as a spin-out of the UNC-Chapel Hill Biomedical Engineering Department and…
DocSumo, a document AI startup that captures data from unstructured documents such as invoices & bank statements into structured formats, announced it has raised seed funding of $220,000 from Better Capital, TechStars, and Barclays. The startup will use this investment to strengthen its product, marketing, and sales engine, and also foray into newer markets like…
Chingari, a Bengaluru-based local short video-sharing app, announced that it has attracted a funding of $1.3 million in a seed round. Investors that participated in the funding round include AngelList India, Utsav Somani’s iSeed, Village Global, LogX Ventures, and Jasminder Singh Gulati of NowFloats, said a statement from Chingari. The company plans to use the…
GentiBio, a biotherapeutics company developing engineered regulatory T cells programmed to treat autoimmune, alloimmune, autoinflammatory, and allergic diseases, announced that it has closed a $20 million seed funding led by OrbiMed, Novartis Venture Fund and RA Capital Management, L.P. GentiBio also announced it has entered into exclusive licensing partnerships with Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Benaroya…
Delightree, a San Francisco and Delhi-based workflow automation app for businesses, announced that it has raised $3 million in seed funding round from Accel Partners, Emergent Ventures, Brainstorm Ventures, Axilor Ventures, and Alchemist Accelerator, according to the YourStory report. The company will utilise the current financing to win new clients. Founded in 2019 by Madhulika…