Tag: Sumit Jain

Roma Balwani takes charge as CEO and Brand Custodian of India Deaf Cricket Association (IDCA)

Indian Deaf Cricket Association (IDCA), the governing body for deaf cricket in India, has appointed the award-winning communication specialist, Roma Balwani as its CEO & Brand Custodian effective from July 2022. Balwani started her leadership journey in the nineties, from 2000 onwards and in a span of over three decades she has significantly contributed to the…

Event-led engagement platform Airmeet raises $35M Series B funding round from Prosus Ventures, Sistema, Sequoia Capital India, RingCentral Ventures, and Others

Event-led engagement platform, Airmeet announced that it has raised $35M USD in Series B funding. New investors Prosus Ventures, Sistema Asia Fund, RingCentral Ventures, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, DG Daiwa Ventures and Nexxus Global participated alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Accel India in this round. Funds raised will go towards expanding its footprints…

Sampathkumar P joins Sistema Asia Fund as Senior Partner

Sistema Asia Fund (SAF), the Bangalore based Venture Capital firm investing in mid-stage Indian startups, has announced the induction of ex-VC and tech-entrepreneur Sampathkumar P as a part of the firm’s investment leadership in India. Sampath joins the team as a Senior Partner to lead and manage investments for the soon-to-be launched Fund II by…

Mumbai-based Tring raises funds from a clutch of investors

Tring, a Mumbai-based celebrity engagement platform, announced it has raised funds from top entrepreneurs and startup investors including Kalyan Krishnamurthy of Flipkart, Sujeet Kumar of Udaan, Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy, Keshav Sanghi of VentureWorks India, Roman Saini of Unacademy, Hemesh Singh of Unacademy, and Sumit Jain of Opentalk amongst others.  Earlier, the startup had raised…