Robin AI, the AI-powered legal copilot, announces that it has raised $26 million in new funding. The Series B round is led by Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore. Other investors include QuantumLight, Plural and AFG Partners. Robin AI was founded in 2019 by Richard Robinson, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, and James Clough, a machine learning research scientist…
Former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has invested in Bengaluru-based fitness startup Tagda Raho, according to ETtech report. The startup, however, did not disclose the size of the investment or the company’s valuation. Tagda Raho has training centres in Bangalore and is set to launch another in Maharashtra next month, it said in…
Inzpira, a recognized IELTS, communicative English (Spoken English) & Soft-skills training company, has announced that it has bagged Rs 2.3 crore in its seed funding round. The funding round was co-led by Raj Nair, Chairman, Avalon Consulting, along with Gopinath Latpate, Executive Director, JLL. Investors including Country Head – Retail Lending, HDFC Bank – Arvind…
O4S has raised $6 Million in a Series-A funding round led by Think Investments. Existing investor Venture Highway also participated in the round. The company has earlier raised a total of $3.5 Million in different rounds of investments backed by Venture Highway, and angel investors including Amit Singhal, Subhrakant Panda and Bikram Singh Bedi. The…
NFT-focused social platform Hyy.pe has announced that it has secured $2 million in the Elevation Capital led funding round. The round also saw participation from angel investors including founders of Bankless – Ryan Adams and David Hoffman; Santiago Roel Santos from Ro Capital, Co-founder of DraftKings – Matt Kalish, Head of Crypto, Visa – Cuy…
Trentar has announced the acquisition of 75 percent Stake in Drones Propulsion System’s Startup – Trishula. Trentar had recently acquired GarudaUAV, a Drone based services and platform company and also launched the Drone Manufacturing Division with its own VTOL UAV due for release early 2022. Mr. Subodh Menon, Founder, Trentar, expressed, “Completely Indigenous UAV is…
Agritech platform Farmers Fresh Zone has announced that it has raised Rs 6 crore in pre-series A funding round from existing investors. The fresh funding round was saw participation from Indian Angel Network (IAN), IAN Fund, Native Angel Network and Malabar Angel Network. Speaking on the investment, Pradeep PS, Founder and CEO – Farmers Fresh…
Bengaluru-based social tech enterprise RubanBridge (1Bridge) has announced that it has secured $2.5 million in the latest funding round led by C4D Partners. The round saw participation from KAAJ Ventures, and angel investors including founding partner of Accel Partners – Prashanth Prakash, co-founder of Happiest Minds – Puneet Jetli, as well as PE/VC executive – Aradhana…
MeitY Startup Hub (MSH), an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), focussed on building a deep tech ecosystem across India, has entered into a partnership with MergerDomo, a fundraising and startup advisory platform. According to a statement, the said collaboration shall support the startups on various aspects such as investor engagement, corporate…
10Web, a startup that automates website hosting and building with AI, has announced a $2M funding round for its Automated WordPress Platform from Sierra Ventures and AI Fund. Speaking on the investment, 10Web’s CEO Tigran Nazaryan, said, “Tens of millions of WordPress websites are built every year, and an average website launch takes 5 weeks!…
Pietra has announced it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round led by Founders Fund with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, TQ Ventures, Abstract Ventures and other strategic investors. The capital injection will be used to grow the internal team, expand the platform and supplier marketplace. “I’m a firm believer that anyone with entrepreneurial…
Edtech startup MicroDegree has announced that it has raised undisclosed sum in the latest financing round from investors including RIIDL (Research Innovation Incubation Design Labs) as well as Founder and CEO of Organic Riot – Siddharth H Somaiya in an Individual capacity. Speaking on the investment, Manikanta Nair, Co-founder of MicroDegree, stated, “We will use…
BimaPe, an insurtech startup, has announced that it has raised $545K in a Lightspeed India Partners led pre-seed round. Titan Capital, Gemba Capital and iSeed also participated in the funding round. “The investment will be utilised to develop its product further, expand the team and invest in paid user acquisition,” according to a statement. Speaking…
Silicon Valley-based Hive Pro, creator of Predictive Vulnerability Analytics (PVA), has announced that it has closed $3 million in seed financing led by Simpra Holdings. “We are excited with the positive traction for our platform, and now with several success stories, we are going ahead with full force to capture the market and emerge as…
Slice, a payments and credit start-up, has announced the appointment of Siva Kumar Tangudu as its chief technology officer (CTO). Rajan Bajaj, founder and CEO, slice, said “Siva has a great history of leading engineering teams at some of the best tech companies, as well as his own startup. There are some very exciting things…