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Ramp Secures $750 Million in Funding to Help Businesses Automate Their Financial Operations

Ramp, the finance automation platform and first corporate card designed to help businesses spend less, today announced $750 million in new financing, bringing its valuation to $8.1 billion. The raise included $200 million in fresh equity funding led by Founders Fund, with participation from all major existing investors including D1 Capital Partners, Thrive Capital, Redpoint … Read more

Vectra named David Sajoto as VP Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Region

Vectra AI, a leader in AI-driven threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises, today announced the appointment of David Sajoto as Vice President, Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). With over 20 years of experience, David has a proven track record of building and executing against business strategy and go-to-market plans, achieving aggressive revenue growth … Read more

Looppanel Announces USD 1 Mn in Pre Seed Funding

Looppanel, which allows product & design teams to analyze and share insights from Zoom-based user interviews in minutes, announced a USD 1 million Pre-Seed round of funding led by Speciale Invest. Additional funding is coming from First Cheque, angel investors and a grant from Sequoia Capital India as part of the Sequoia Spark program. Looppanel … Read more

Amazon completes MGM acquisition in $8.5 billion deal

Amazon has completed an $8.5 billion acquisition of Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), the company announced on Thursday. The completion of the transaction will see more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV shows become a part of Amazon Prime Video. The deal is Amazon’s second-largest acquisition, the company  paid $13.7 billion for Whole Foods in 2017. … Read more

Trailblazer Games Raises $8.2M to Develop Web3-Native Fantasy Universe

Startup Trailblazer Games has closed an $8.2M seed round led by Makers Fund, including Play Ventures, Fabric Ventures, and a roster of prominent industry leaders in gaming and blockchain. Trailblazer is leading the evolution of games built natively for blockchain, by putting fun at the core of truly scalable economies. They are currently developing a … Read more

Razorpay Acquires Payments Tech Startup IZealiant Technologies

Razorpay, a fintech unicorn, announced the purchase of IZealiant Technologies, a renowned Fintech business that provides payment technology solutions to banks, on Tuesday. IZealiant, a Pune-based business founded in 2015, delivers mobile-first, API-enabled, and cloud-ready payment processing technologies for banks and financial institutions. Commenting on the acquisition, Harshil Mathur, CEO & Co-founder of Razorpay said, … Read more

Health Benefits Firm Ekincare Bags $15 M In Series B Funding

ekincare, an AI-powered health benefits firm, announced a $15 million Series B fundraising round headed by HealthQuad and Sabre Partners, with participation from previous investors Ventureast, Eight Roads Ventures, Siana Capital, and Endiya Partners on Thursday. ekincare is a customised, full-stack health benefits platform founded in 2015 by Kiran Kalakuntla, Srikanth Samudrala, and Dr Noel … Read more

Amagi turned Unicorn after Raising $95 M In Funding Round

Amagi, a media-focused SaaS firm, became the 11th to reach the unicorn club this year after raising $95 million in a funding round headed by Accel. Existing investors such as Norwest Venture Partners and Avataar Ventures joined the investment round as well. Amagi, which was founded in 2008 by Baskar Subramanian, Srinivasan KA, and Srividhya … Read more

Cosmofeed Raises $1.5 M In Seed Round

Cosmofeed, a dynamic content monetization & consumption platform that enables creators to digitally and seamlessly optimize, monetize, and manage their audiences has announced raising US $1.5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by growx ventures, Waveform Ventures, & 9 Unicorns with participation from Singapore-based investment holding company Silk Bridge Partners (SBP). Industry leaders like Swati Mohan (CBO – Heads … Read more

Curelink raises USD 3.5 mn in seed funding round

Curelink, a health-tech platform, announced on Wednesday that it has secured USD 3.5 million (about Rs 26 crore) in a seed round led by Elevation Capital and Venture Highway. Curelink, founded by Aman Singla and Divyansh Jain in 2021, links doctors and patients via WhatsApp. “Curelink is now operational in Gurugram and Bhopal, with ambitions … Read more

FarMart acqui-hires Subjimandi.app to scale its food supply chain across India

FarMart acqui-hired fruits and vegetables (F&V) logistics platform, Subjimandi.app to optimize our logistics and expand our product portfolio by entering into the F&V categories. Subjimandi.app was set up in 2020 to replace the physical marketplace and has a strong network in India across the states of Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh. Their approach has been … Read more

Webflow Raises $120M Series C at $4B Valuation Led by YC Continuity

Webflow, the leading no-code visual development platform for the professional website and CMS market, today announced that it has closed a $120 million Series C at a $4 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $330 million. Y Combinator’s Continuity fund led the round, with participation from existing investors CapitalG, Accel, Silversmith, and Draper Associates. The company … Read more

Binance Awarded Specialist License By Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority

Binance today announced that it has been granted a Virtual Asset License to enable it to operate within Dubai’s ‘test-adapt-scale’ virtual asset market model as a base for expansion into the region. Under the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) initial regulatory phase, which includes rigorous regulatory oversight and mandatory FATF compliance controls, Binance will be permitted to … Read more

Plant-Based Fish Startup Plantish Raises Largest Seed Round in Alt Seafood History

Alt seafood pioneer Plantish, which uses plant proteins to create premium, whole-cut fish, has raised $12.45 million in seed funding, the largest seed round to date in the burgeoning alternative seafood market. The round was led by State Of Mind Ventures, with participation from Pitango Health Tech, Unovis Capital, TechAviv Founder Partners, SmartAgro, E2JDJ, Alumni … Read more

Sundays for Dogs Raises $10 Million Series A led by Imaginary Ventures, along with Ryan Reynolds, Orlando Bloom, and others

Sundays for Dogs, Inc., the leading brand in ready-to-eat human-grade dog food, announced today the closing of a $10 million Series A funding led by Imaginary Ventures. Sundays is the first human-grade, air-dried dog food; it’s healthier than kibble, but easier than refrigerated foods since it does not require a freezer, prep, or clean-up. Starting at just $2 a … Read more

Jungle Ventures and Tiger Global invest $12M in Employee Experience Platform, inFeedo

New Delhi & Singapore-inFeedo, Asia’s leading employee experience platform, has announced $12M in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Tiger Global and existing investors like Bling Capital. Other investors to join the round include top CHROs and founders like Bhavin Turakhia (Founder Zeta), Sreedhar Peddineni(Co-founder Gainsight), Suman Gopalan (CHRO Freshworks) and … Read more

Techforce.ai Raises $1.5 Million Seed Funding

Techforce.ai, a digital enablement company that offers the most business user-friendly automation software with a vision to amplify human potential at work, announced today that it had closed a seed funding of $1.5 million. Techforce.ai will use these funds to accelerate the development of its no-code SaaS product and expand its global presence. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, … Read more

UpScalio, an e-commerce buy-and-build company, raises $15m in a pre-series-B round, led by Gulf Islamic Investments

UpScalio, a digitally led ‘House of brands’ in the utility consumer goods space, has raised $15m in a pre-series-B round, led by Gulf Islamic Investments, with participation from a consortium of lenders including Northern Arc and Unity bank. This fund raise announcement comes shortly after UpScalio’s mega series-A round fundraise of $42.5M in August last … Read more

ZFunds appoints Yogesh Yadav as CTO and Tanvi Jadhav as Product Head

Mutual fund distribution platform, ZFunds, today announced two new leadership appointments as the company expands its footprints to make mutual funds Sahi and Asaan for the people of Bharat. While Yogesh Yadav  joins as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Tanvi Jadhav has been appointed as the Head of Products. The appointments strategically enable ZFunds in … Read more

DataRails Raises $50M Series B Funding

DataRails, the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform for Excel users, announced today that it has raised $50M in Series B funding. The company’s third investment round in the past 12 months, which was led by Qumra Capital, follows a 5x growth in revenue in the past year, positioning DataRails as the market leader in FP&A software … Read more