Tag: Startup funding

Finley raises $3 mn seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures

Finley, the debt capital raise and management solution, has announced a $3 million seed round led by Matt Harris and Kevin Zhang of Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Haystack, Nine Four Ventures, TwentyTwo VC, and Y Combinator. It will use this funding to accelerate its product development with early customers like Ramp, the statement said. “In capital markets, credit is…

Jumbotail raises Rs35 cr debt round from Alteria Capital

Jumbotail, India’s leading New Retail platform and B2B marketplace for food and grocery products, has raised INR 35 Crore from Alteria Capital. This venture debt round comes after a $25M equity round concluded in January 2021. The company plans to use the funds to expand its operations across the entire country, fund its working capital…

Beauty & Wellness startup Fresha raises $100mn funding led by General Atlantic

Fresha, a top beauty and wellness software platform, announced a $100 million Series C investment led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, with strategic participation from Huda Kattan of HB Investments and the founder of Huda Beauty, as well as Michael Zeisser of FMZ Ventures, former Chairman Investments at Alibaba Group, and Jonathan Green of Lugard Road Capital. Fresha’s existing global…

Contentstack raises $57.5 mn in oversubscribed Series B round

Contentstack, the leading Content Experience Platform (CXP), announced it has raised $57.5 million in series B financing. The oversubscribed round was led by Insight Partners, who also led the company’s series A round. Existing investors Illuminate Ventures and GingerBread Capital also participated, as did new investor Georgian. This brings Contentstack’s total amount raised to $89 million. The company plans to use…

BuyerAssist.io raises $2 mn seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners, Emergent Ventures

Headquartered in San Francisco, B2B Buyer Engagement platform, BuyerAssist.io announced raising $2M in seed financing led by Stellaris Venture Partners and Emergent Ventures. The round also saw participation from Better Capital and angel investors who are senior business executives/startup founders in the US and India. This is the company’s first round of venture funding and…

Whatfix bags $90 mn in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Whatfix, a leader in Digital Adoption Solutions (DAS), announced it has raised $90 million in Series D funding. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round, with participation from Eight Roads Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Dragoneer Investment Group, F-Prime Capital and Cisco Investments. Whatfix has now raised $139.8 million to-date and the company’s valuation has increased…

F5 raises pre-Series A round from angel investors

D2C brand servicing daily workplace consumption, F5 announced that it has closed $350,00,000 (INR 2.5 Crores) as the first tranche of its Pre-Series A round while it is in the final stage for closing the second tranche in next couple of weeks. The current raise saw participation from angel investors that include – Mohit Satyanand-Chairman…

Biotech startup CyGenica raises seed round led by SOSV

CyGenica has announced that it has raised USD $1.4 million in a seed fund investment round, led by global venture capital investor SOSV. The funding round will accelerate validation of CyGenica’s proprietary technology which enables safe, targeted, and affordable intercellular drug delivery. CyGenica’s disruptive technology addresses the problem of delivering large-molecule therapeutics into living cells without…

Helix raises $50 mn Series C funding from existing investors

Helix, the leading population genomics and COVID-19 testing company, has closed on its Series C funding round led by existing investors Warburg Pincus, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Mayo Clinic and Temasek. The $50M round will be used to accelerate the organization’s population genomics platform across health systems, life sciences companies, and payers as well as power…

Gurugram-based fintech startup FlipItNews raises 18 Cr in seed funding round

Founded in 2020 by IIM alumnus Dipankar Biswas and technocrats Diptanil Das and Bharat Bhushan, Gurugram-based fintech start-up FlipItNews announced it has raised Rs 18 crore in the form of equity and OCDS in its seed investment round, which will be used to revamp tech infrastructure, build new product features and acquire more users. This unique start-up…

Hyderabad-based Cellestial E-mobility raises USD 5,00,000 funding

Cellestial E-mobility, a city based maker of the first electric tractor in India, announced it has raised USD 500,000 million in funding. This round of strategic financing included the Co- founder of Electric Motor Company, Ashik Karim, Founder of UpCapital Investments, Canada”s leading EV financial advisory group who have not just invested but expressed a…

Noida-based startup Rezo.ai raises undisclosed amount in seed funding

Rezo.ai, a conversational AI startup has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding led by Modulor Capital, Dexter Angel Network, Veda and prominent angels including Bhavesh Manglani (Co-founder Delhivery); Devesh Sachdev (Founder, Fusion Microfinance).  The Noida-based startup plans to use the funds for product development and entering new markets. Rezo.ai is an AI-powered contact center…

Aurora Solar raises $250 mn Series C funding led by Coatue

Aurora Solar, the industry’s leading software platform for solar sales and design, announced it has closed a $250 million Series C funding round led by Coatue, with follow-on participation from existing investors ICONIQ Capital, Energize Ventures, and Fifth Wall. In just over two years, Aurora Solar has raised more than $320M. Today’s fundraise underscores the…