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Binance Announces Former Deputy US Attorney as its First Deputy General Counsel

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Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, today announced the appointment of Joshua Eaton, former Deputy U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California, as Deputy General Counsel. Eaton will lead the organization’s legal affairs, supporting global compliance, investigations, and law enforcement coordination activities. Eaton brings over 20 years of experience … Read more

Evisort Raises $100M in Funding Led by TCV

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Evisort, the no-code contract intelligence platform loved by legal, procurement, and sales operations teams worldwide, today announced it has raised $100 million in capital, including equity and venture debt financing. This latest round of funding is led by global growth investor TCV, a key investor in Airbnb, LinkedIn, Netflix, and other market-defining companies. TCV General Partner Amol Helekar will join … Read more

Eros Investments partners with Dubai World Trade Centre Authority to develop the Web3 ecosystem

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Eros Investments, a leading Global Media, Entertainment & Technology portfolio of ventures, announced a strategic partnership with the Dubai World Trade Centre Authority (DWTCA) to operate under the world’s only specialist Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), and enable growth of the worldwide Web 3.0 industry and associated blockchain businesses from Dubai as the Hub. Foundational … Read more

Locus named Ranadheer Velamuri as Senior Vice President of Engineering

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Ranadheer Velamuri has been named Senior Vice President – Engineering at Locus, an order-to-delivery dispatch management platform that addresses logistics difficulties and enables simple process automation. Locus will revamp its technical team under his supervision in order to build and improve its cutting-edge, enterprise-ready solutions for excellence in last-mile logistics. Velamuri has more than 20 … Read more

Foreign Admits Raises Rs 3.26Cr From Unicorn India Ventures and others

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ForeignAdmits, an overseas study help firm based in Bengaluru, has raised Rs 3.26 crore from Mumbai-based early-stage fund Unicorn India Ventures (UIV) and other investors. The round included Beerud Sheth, founder of Gupshup, Zishaan Hayath, founder of Toppr, and Keshab Panda, former chief executive officer of L&T Infotech. ForeignAdmits intends to use the additional funds … Read more

Ecommerce Enablement Startup GoKwik Secures $35 Mn In Funding

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GoKwik, an e-commerce enabling firm, has secured $35 million in a Series B round headed by RTP Global and Think Investments. Existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Matrix Partners India also participated in the round. The fresh capital follows GoKwik’s $15 million Series A round in November of last year, bringing the company’s total fundraising … Read more

Fintech Startup Multipl Bags $3 Mn In Funding

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Blume Ventures, GrowX Ventures, IIFL, and Kotak Securities Limited led a $3 million Pre-Series A fundraising round for fintech firm Multipl. The new funds will be used to expand the platform’s investment possibilities and help customers better budget their costs, according to the company. Multipl, founded in 2020 by Paddy Raghavan, Jags Raghavan, and Vikas … Read more

Edtech Startup iNurture Raises $15 Mn In Funding

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ADM Capital has invested $15 million in loan and equity for Bengaluru-based edtech firm iNurture. As part of the arrangement, iNurture’s current investor VenturEast will exit the company, and ADM Capital will take over its shares. The new funds will be used to expand iNurture’s National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) programmes, improve its technology stack, … Read more

Swiggy shuts down Supr Daily operations in five cities

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Swiggy, the Bengaluru-based food aggregator, has shut down its subscription-based commerce platform Supr Daily. The firm informed its customers that it will cease operations in five cities, including the Delhi-NCR region, on May 12. Supr Daily was started in 2015 by IIT Bombay grads Shreyas Nagdawane and Puneet Kumar and acquired by Swiggy in 2018. … Read more

BYJU’S-Led Great Learning Acquires Singapore education firm Northwest Executive Education

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Great Learning, a subsidiary of BYJU’S group, has bought Singapore-based Northwest Executive Education for around $100 million in stock and cash. Northwest, founded in 2015 by Mohit, Tamhant, and Singhvi, provides executive education in a variety of fields, including management, leadership, technology, healthcare, and innovation. It claims to have over 50 countries represented among its … Read more

Global Brand For Educational Games, Skillmatics Raises Us$ 16 Million Series B

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Skillmatics, a global brand for children’s educational games and resources has raised US$16 million in Series B funding, led by Sofina with participation from existing investors, Sequoia Capital India and Jalaj Dani Family Office. The funds will be used to strengthen Skillmatics’ presence in the US, expand the brand’s product offerings to new age groups … Read more

Josh Talks Raises $3.5 M From Ankur Capital

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Ankur Capital led a $3.5 million funding round for Josh Talks, an upskilling platform. Among the notable investors in the round were Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm), Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital), Vineeta Singh (SUGAR Cosmetics), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), and Ankur Warikoo (Ex-Nearbuy). Josh Talks, which previously raised $1.5 million from the New York-based Media Development Investment … Read more

Omega Healthcare to hire 18,000 professionals for their India expansion

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Omega Healthcare has announced that it will expand its operations in India over the next 12 months, with plans to add 18,000 specialists. According to a press release from the company, the expansion would include operations in Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad. The technology-enabled healthcare service provider has already begun the employment process, with 4,500 specialists … Read more

Home Renovation App Kolo Raises 4 Million In Funding

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Kolo, India’s top home content community, has raised $ 4 million from global venture capital company RTP Global and previous investor Better Capital. The fresh investment will help the company continue to grow, improve consumer-facing product offerings such as the content recommendation engine, community offering, digital portfolio, and professional tools, and expand its presence across … Read more

upGrad for Business adds Ketaki Kadekar and Dolphy Dias across key Leadership positions

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upGrad for Business (uGB), the B2B branch of Asia’s higher edtech behemoth upGrad, has added to its executive leadership team with significant recruits to support the expansion of its outcome-based learning approach for Indian corporations. The addition of Ketaki Kadekar as Director of Customer Success and Growth and Dolphy Dias as Director of Sales to … Read more

Entersekt partners with Capitec Bank to Boost Security and Reduce Friction for E-Commerce Transactions

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Entersekt, a global leader in device identity and authentication solutions, today announced that Capitec Bank has implemented its innovative EMV 3-D Secure solution that boosts the security of e-commerce payments, while reducing friction for cardholders. Entersekt’s solution leverages behavioral analytics from NuData Security, a Mastercard company, that provides industry-leading risk-based authentication technology. This builds on the partnership between Entersekt … Read more

CoinDCX launches venture investment arm CoinDCX Ventures

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CoinDCX, an Indian crypto exchange, has announced the creation of CoinDCX Ventures, an investment effort that will fund early-stage crypto and blockchain firms, bolstering India’s digital asset ecosystem and speeding up the digital economy’s transformation. The initial fund is estimated to be worth Rs 100 crore, with funds coming entirely from the company’s financial sheet … Read more

Anja Health Raises $4.5M Seed Funding Round

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Anja Health, the personalized doctor-backed cord blood banking company, today announced a $4.5M seed funding round led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six with participation from Harvest Ventures and Crista Galli Ventures, in addition to prominent athletes and executives including Aly Raisman, Cleo Abram, Chris Ovitz, Balaji Srinivisan, Zachariah Reitano – CEO and founder of Ro, and Tim Lenardo – CEO and founder of JetFuel. Through this strategic … Read more

SG Analytics Welcomes Sid Banerjee as New CEO

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SG Analytics (SGA), a Global insights and analytics company, has appointed Sid Banerjee as the firm’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Sushant Gupta, Founder, SG Analytics will now take on the role of Founder & Chairman. He will focus on steering the company towards its stated resolve of creating a regenerative organization in line with … Read more

Tomorrow Farms Raises $8.5M in Seed Round Led by Lowercarbon Capital and Others

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Tomorrow Farms, a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands, announced today an $8.5 million seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital and additional key investors, including Maveron, Valor Siren Ventures, Simple Food Ventures and SV Angel. Working to become the trusted, household name for the future … Read more