Kalam Labs, a live game streaming platform at the intersection of K-12 learning and multiplayer gaming, has announced a pre-seed round with Lightspeed and Y Combinator. With this capital, Kalam Labs plans to accelerate their product roadmap to build a “Metaverse for Science”, starting with virtual missions for 6-14 year old kids to learn their…
Prodigal, the intelligence layer for loan servicing and collection operations, has announced a $12M Series A led by Menlo Ventures. Participating and existing investors include Accel, Y Combinator, and MGV. Lending industry veterans like Eric Sage (COO Plaid), Anand Joshi (ex American Express), and Nicholas Hinrichsen (CEO Carlypso) also joined the round. According to the…
Fountain9, an AI-led startup, has announced that it has raised $1.9 million in the seed funding round. The round saw participation from 021 Capital, Y Combinator, Titan Capital, Kunal Bahl, Harvard Seed Fund, US-based Globevestor, and Blue Impact Ventures. Speaking on the new investment, Niki Khokale, Co-founder and CEO at Fountain9, stated, “Globally, about $260…
Teenager-focused payments app FamPay has announced that it has raised $38 million in a Elevation Capital led Series A funding round. Existing investors including Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital India, Venture Highway, Global Founders Capital, along with new investors Greenoaks Capital, General Catalyst and Rocketship VC partcipated in the financing round. “With around 40 percent of the Indian population…
Houm has recently raised USD $8 MM after their participation in the Y Combinator Winter 2021 program which they will invest in for growth and consolidation in their actual markets. Houm started in 2018 in Chile, with the idea of the founders Benjamín Labra (CEO) and Nicolás Knockaert (COO) to disrupt the real estate industry.…
Substack has secured $65 million in funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The development was first reported by news portal Axios. It informed that the funding round valued the company at around $650 million. According to ET, “Substack said it would use the fresh capital to help fund its financing program for writers, growing a…
Y Combinator-backed online grocery delivery start-up KiranaKart has raised Rs 5.33 crore led by Global Founders Capital. The pre-seed round also saw investment from Contrary Capital, 2 AM Ventures, along with angel investors from India and Silicon Valley. Speaking on the investment, Aadit Palicha, CEO and Co-founder, said, “As our Y Combinator journey unfolded, we…
Creator monetisation startup, TagMango has secured Rs 5.5 crore investment in the seed funding round. Y Combinator participated in the seed funding round along with Kevin Lin – Twitch Co-founder, XRM Media, Pioneer Fund and few angel investors from the UAE, the USA. The funds raised by the startup in the fresh round will be…
Cashfree, a Bengaluru-based payment gateway startup, has announced that it has raised $35.3 million in its Series B funding round. The current funding was led by London-based private equity fund Apis Partners’ Apis Growth Fund II. Existing investors Y combinator and Smilegate Investments also participated in the funding round. With this investment, the company’s valuation…
StayQrious, an edtech company that focuses on essential 21st century skills through live online coding classes, announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding round led by some of the leading early-stage investors, as per YourStory report. Investors include Learnstart, the dedicated seed fund of Learn Capital and other global investors such 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…
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…
inFeedo, a SaaS-based people analytics startup, announced that it has raised $700,000 financing from Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley-based startup incubator, according to the ETtech report. Angel investors like Innov8 founder Ritesh Malik, Lenskart cofounder Peyush Bansal, former Facebook director Anand Chandrashekharan, Cisco’s Vinod Muthukrishnan, Inventus Law founder Anil Advani, and Kwench founder Sunder Nookala…
goDutch, a Mumbai-based new-age fintech platform that powers group payments for millennials, announced that it has raised $1.7 million seed funding led by venture capital firm Matrix India along with investors including Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, and VentureSouq. Angel investors that took part in the current financing round include Justin Mateen, co-founder…
Squire Technologies, a New York-based tech startup that provides fully integrated software system for Barbershops and men’s salons, announced that it has raised Series B funding led by CRV, with participation from Tiger Global, San Francisco 49ers organization, and the former CEO and Chairman of Infor, Charles Phillips, and existing investors Trinity Ventures, 645 Ventures,…