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Bitcoin Association Become an Associate Member of the Japan Cryptoasset Business Association (JCBA)

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Bitcoin Association, the Switzerland-based global industry organisation that works to advance business with the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain and digital currency, today announces that it has been admitted to join the Japan Cryptoasset Business Association (JCBA) as an associate member as part of its ongoing efforts to support the growth of enterprise blockchain technologies in Japan and across Asia. The JCBA … Read more

PrimeSoft Acquires Tejora Private Limited

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PrimeSoft, a leading IT solutions provider based out of Columbia, Maryland, United States, announced the acquisition of Tejora Private Limited, a Mumbai-based IT services company. Tejora’s innovative financial technology products and solutions such as Saffron Pay and Saffron Square have been adopted by major banks and financial institutions in India and South East Asia. Currently, … Read more

TalentSprint Enters into a Strategic Alliance with the Centre for Executive Education, Indian School of Business

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TalentSprint, an NSE Group EdTech company and a market leader in transformational deeptech programmes, today announced a multi-year partnership with the Centre for Executive Education at ISB – India’s #1 business school and ranked amongst the top B-schools, globally. TalentSprint would be a strategic outreach partner for ISB Executive Education – leveraging ISB’s commitment to … Read more

Purplle.com closed $140 Million Series D Funding

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Purplle.com, one of India’s top online beauty destinations, raises $65 million, introducing Premji Invest to the capital market for the first time. This investment comes only weeks after Kedaara Capital, Sequoia Capital India, and Blume Ventures led a $75 million investing round. The money will help the company grow faster and build a multibillion-dollar business … Read more

Poonawalla Fincorp and CARS24 Announce Strategic Partnership for Seamless Consumer Financing

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CARS24, India’s leading e-commerce platform for pre-owned vehicles and Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd (Formerly known as Magma Fincorp Limited), a non-deposit taking systemically important non-banking finance Company (ND-SI-NBFC), have announced their strategic partnership for quick and seamless consumer financing on vehicles bought from CARS24. In this partnership, Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd will fulfill consumer loans originating through … Read more

WinZO partners with Kalaari Capital to Launch its ‘Gaming Lab’, will co-invest in Gaming

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India’s largest social gaming platform, WinZO is launching an investment initiative, ‘Gaming Lab’, jointly with Kalaari Capital, to encourage and support India’s gaming ecosystem. ‘Gaming Lab’ will invest across all forms of interactive entertainment apps in India with a flexible corpus starting at over half a million dollars. Association with WinZO, which hosts 80+ games … Read more

OctaFX Examines the Battle for Monetary Supremacy: Blockchain vs Legacy Finance

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There aren’t many people who haven’t heard of the bitcoin bull market. This remarkable race was made more interesting by a few but significant corrections. Blockchain technology isn’t going away anytime soon. The future of finance will be determined by how legacy institutions and governments respond. OctaFX, a global broker, published an expert piece examining … Read more

HPCL and IDFC FIRST Bank Partner to Enable Fuel Payments Using FASTag

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IDFC FIRST Bank and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) today signed an agreement to facilitate fuel payments by motorists at HPCL’s retail outlets using the Bank’s FASTags. Further, IDFC FIRST Bank’s FASTags can now also be bought, recharged and replaced by passenger vehicle users at select HPCL retail outlets. This partnership makes the purchase and use … Read more

Anshul Agrawal Named as CTO at Branch Personal Finance App

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Branch, one of the most popular personal finance applications, has promoted Anshul Agrawal to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the company’s global operations. Anshul has more than 15 years of experience in technological infrastructure and architecture, as well as security, performance, product development, and UI/UX best practises. He’s an engineer from IIT Roorkee who dropped … Read more

PayU Finance Elevates Bhavik Kaul As Chief Product Officer

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PayU Finance, which owns LazyPay, India’s preferred Buy Now Pay Later solution and PaySense, a full stack personal loans company, has elevated Bhavik Kaul as the company’s Chief Product Officer (CPO), further strengthening its leadership team to scale up the business and pave the way for the next phase of growth. He will be responsible for building and expanding … Read more

K&L Wellness Raises Rs 30 Cr In Seed Round

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K&L Wellness, a healthtech firm, announced that it has raised Rs 30 crore in a seed round from Manjushree Ventures’ Vimal and Surendra Kedia, as well as Sohamm Group’s Narendra Firodia. In the field of integrative and lifestyle medicine, K&L was founded by serial entrepreneur Karan Talreja and holistic lifestyle coach Luke Coutinho to provide … Read more

Fintech Startup Zenpay Solutions Raises Fund In Angel Round

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Zenpay Solutions, a fintech startup, announced that it has raised an unknown amount of money from AngelBay and TheStartupLab, as well as angel investors. Zenpay, a fintech firm founded in 2018, provides banking services to small and medium businesses (SMEs) that employ blue-collar workers. Zenpay plans to use the new funds to expand its technical … Read more

Enterprise Skilling Startup Disprz Raises $13M In Series B Round

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Disprz, a leading enterprise skilling business, announced the completion of a $13 million Series B financing anchored by Dallas Venture Capital and Mars Growth Capital. Disprz is an AI-powered learning and skilling suite that helps enterprises to right-skill their employees to win in a digital-first environment. It was founded in 2015 by Subramanian Viswanathan and … Read more

Bengaluru-Based Social Crypto Exchange Defy Raises $5.5M In Seed Round

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Defy, a Bengaluru-based startup founded by Bhagaban Behera, Sriharsha Setty, and Nakul Kelkar, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding for its parent company, Walrus, which is sponsored by Y Combinator. With the new money, Defy intends to construct a community-based social crypto exchange/platform that would allow users to create profiles and share portfolios with … Read more

Edtech startup Inzpira raises Rs 2.3 Cr

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Inzpira, an AI-powered, on-demand live language learning and soft-skills training platform for adults and children, said that it had raised Rs 2.3 crore in seed funding. Inzpira, which was founded in 2020, is changing the way people learn English and soft skills with its AI-enabled platform, which allows users to study at their own pace … Read more

ETMONEY Crosses $3bn of Investments Being Managed on Its Platform

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ETMONEY, one of India’s fastest growing investments and wealth management platform, has crossed the milestone of 3 billion US dollars’ (INR 22,500 Crores) of total mutual fund investments being managed on the platform. The current value of investments made through ETMONEY has crossed $1Bn itself while another $2Bn of investments are being actively managed by … Read more

Lanka Premier League partners with cricket NFT platform Rario

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Cricket NFT platform Rario has associated with the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2021. The exclusive partnership will allow Rario to mint one-of-a-kind digital collectibles of noteworthy moments emerging from the T20 league. The latest announcement cements the growing popularity of NFTs in cricket markets around the world. Launched in 2020 by Sri Lanka Cricket, the … Read more

Simplilearn named Saurabh Arya as VP – Enterprise Business

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Simplilearn, the Online Bootcamp and a frontrunner in the EdTech domain, today announced the appointment of Saurabh Arya as Vice President – Simplilearn Enterprise. He will be leading the Enterprise Business in India and the SAARC region. An alumnus of Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Saurabh Arya joins Simplilearn … Read more

V-Mart Retail named Aakash Moondhra, Global CFO of PayU, as Chairman

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V-Mart Retail Limited announced the appointment of Aakash Moondhra, Global CFO of PayU, as Chairman of the company. The Company also announced a strategic change in its leadership structure, further improving the corporate governance framework with the role of Chairman and Managing Director now being split, with Mr. Aakash Moondhra (Independent Director) being designated as … Read more

OncoCoin A.G launches AMRIT, a bitcoin like Crypto Token for patients

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OncoCoin AG, a fully-owned subsidiary of Innoplexus AG which is a leading international Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain-based Drug Discovery and Development company with 43 patents and more than 116+ patent applications, is going to launch ‘AMRIT’, one of the leading, decentralized and GDPR compliant Real World Data (RWD) exchange to fuel AI for patient’s … Read more