Studio Sirah, a next-gen game studio that builds unique Indian-themed games, announced today that it raised $2.6 million in a Pre-series A round led by Kalaari Capital (an early-stage, technology-focused VC firm), and its seed investor, Lumikai (India’s pioneering gaming, and interactive media focused VC fund). The company plans to utilise the funds to globally … Read more
Early-stage technology fund, Silverneedle Ventures announces its investment in a Chennai and Mumbai-headquartered, Enterprise skilling platform, Disprz, that helps global companies right-skill their workforce with an AI-powered learning and skilling suite. The startup has raised an undisclosed sum in a bridge round between Series B & Series C rounds from Silverneedle Ventures & other current … Read more
SocialBoat, a women’s health app, has announced raising an angel round of US$ 200K from Plan B Capital. Other angel investors who have committed to the venture include Abhijit Kane (Co-founder, Postman), Videt Jaiswal (Co-founder, Airblack), Bhuvan Gupta (Co-founder, OfBusiness) and Prateek Sharma (Managing Partner, AheadVC), Neeraj Gupta (Angel Investor) among others. The funds will … Read more
LOTTE Confectionary has announced to invest INR 450 crores in Havmor Ice Cream, with an aim to expand its manufacturing prowess. This investment comes four years after LOTTE acquired Havmor Ice Cream for INR1000 crores in December 2017. Havmor Ice Cream is all set to ramp-up its capacity and cater to the growing demand in the … Read more
Meratractor, a Pune-based start-up and a ‘Phygital’ marketplace catering to farm mechanization products, has raised INR 5Cr. in Pre-Series A funding, bringing total capital raised to ₹7.25 Cr. post this round. The funding round was led by Mr. Vibhor Sahare, CEO & Co-founder of ANS Commerce and Ex-CEO & Co-founder of Gaadi.com, Real Time Angel … Read more
Sid’s Farm, a direct-to-consumer dairy brand, has raised $1 million from its consumers and their recommendations. Being a bootstrapped business that has so far relied on organic development, this first round of funding from its high net worth clients and their recommendations speaks volumes about its brand credibility, unmatched quality, and exceptional customer experience. In … Read more
Salad is utilising technology to enable women to close the knowledge gap around their hormones and take the required actions to actively manage their own health and lifestyle. Aruna Chawla, the founder and CEO of Salad, became aware of how little women understand about their own bodies at the beginning of 2020. Salad Condoms were … Read more
The first full-stack data-driven food technology platform for restaurants in India, Badhaan.com, just received an undisclosed sum in a seed fundraising round led by India Accelerator. HNIs and industry experts like Mr. Pramod Veturi, Sivaram Vallampati, Anand Mahadevan, and others participated in the investment round as well. The company intends to use the capital it … Read more
Wakefit.co, India’s largest D2C home and sleep solutions company, today announced its Series D round of funding of INR 320 crore (~$40 million) Investcorp, a leading manager of alternative investment products with a 40+ year track record, led the funding round. All existing investors, Sequoia Capital India, Verlinvest, SIG, also participated in a show of … Read more
Furniture company Boingg, which focuses on D2C sales to children, has secured INR 2 Cr in a Pre Series A round that was spearheaded by Inflection Point Ventures, one of India’s biggest angel investing platforms. The money raised will be used for licencing, equipment expansion, and corporate branding. With the opening of a physical store … Read more
Turns, a vertical SaaS firm for the laundry sector, has secured $500K in pre-seed funding from Better Capital, PointOne Capital, and a group of outstanding angel investors. With a full stack software & hardware integrated solution that includes a contemporary POS, customer management, easy payments, accounting, employee management, logistics optimization, and compliance, Turns assists launderettes … Read more
actyv.ai, a Singapore-headquartered, category creator in the enterprise SaaS with embedded B2B BNPL and insurance space, has raised a total of $12 million as part of Pre-Series A funding round from 1Digi Ventures, Singapore, the family office of Raghunath Subramanian, Founder and Global CEO of the company. This includes an earlier tranche of $5 million … Read more
Suneel Galgotia and Dhruv Galgotia, Directors of Galgotias Infra sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Arun Veer Singh, Chief Executive officer, Yamuna expressway Industrial Development Authority. Galgotias Infra through this MOU has signed a proposed investment worth 510 crores within the next 3 years in warehousing, hotel, housing and hospital projects in Aerocity near Noida … Read more
MillionICU, an initiative by Dozee, India’s first AI-based contactless Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) & Early Warning System (EWS), has partnered with British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, to upgrade 6000 hospital beds in ~140 public hospitals across India and in other regions to transform the public healthcare landscape. The … Read more
Qritive, a leading healthcare AI firm, has announced a $7.5M investment round headed by MassMutual Ventures and supported by SEEDS Capital and Exfinty Venture Partners. Qritive will use the new funds to expand geographically, increase its product portfolio, and assist regulatory clearances. Qritive, which was founded in 2017 by Dr Aneesh Sathe and Dr Kaveh … Read more
Cropin, the global agritech pioneer that created the world’s first agriculture industry cloud, has raised INR 113 crores in funding from new investors Google and JSR Corporation, as well as previous investors ABC Impact and Chiratae Ventures. Cropin Cloud, the company’s recently launched intelligent agriculture cloud platform, will be expanded with the funds to meet … Read more
