Anveya Living Private Limited, the company behind premium beauty and personal care brands Anveya and ThriveCo, has raised INR 8Cr from Rukam Capital in its seed round. The company plans to use the capital to further research and development, enter new categories and markets, and to build the team to power further expansion. Founded by … Read more
Blue Tribe, the homegrown plant-based meat brand, announced that Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli who have come on board as investors & brand ambassadors. The brand was one of the firsts to initiate the conversation by asking people to make a conscious change in their lifestyle and switch to plant-based meats in order to save … Read more
Nikhil Kamath led a $4 million pre-Series A investment for Kofluence, an ad-tech influencer marketing platform (Co-Founder of Zerodha & True Beacon). The round included notable investors like Kunal Shah (Founder, CRED), Karan Johar (Filmmaker & TV Personality), Apoorva Mehta (CEO, Dharma Productions), Sujeet Kumar (Co-Founder, Udaan), Aprameya Radhakrishna (Co-Founder, Koo), Upsparks (Micro VC), and … Read more
Vajro, a mobile app development company based in Chennai, announced on Tuesday that it had secured $8.5 million in a Series A round from Kansas City-based growth equity firm Five Elms Capital. Vajro was founded in 2018 by Baskar, Niwin Santhosh, and Raghuraman Ramamurthy and now employs around 150 people. It’s currently geared toward the … Read more
Darwinbox, Asia’s fastest growing HR tech platform, today announced another milestone witha US $72 million funding round, leapfroggingthe companyto a billion-plus-valuation. Led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) along with participation from existing investors Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia India, Lightspeed India, Endiya Partners, 3One4Capital, JGDEVand SCB10X,the round takes the total investment in the company to over $110 … Read more
Smiles.ai, a healthcare business, has received $23 million in Series A funding from Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI). Existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Chiratae Ventures also participated in the round. Hitesh Kakrani and Dr. Jatin Kakrani established Smiles.ai in 2019. To provide access to high-quality and cost-effective dental care goods and services, the firm uses … Read more
HealthQuad, Kalaari Capital, and HealthX Capital Singapore have all contributed to Stanplus’s $20 million Series A fundraising round. Antoine Poirson, Jose Leon, and Prabhdeep Singh created the Hyderabad-based firm in 2016. StanPlus is an emergency healthcare startup that offers end-to-end medical response solutions, including ambulance services for both emergency and non-emergency situations, as well as … Read more
Ola Electric, founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, is now valued at $5 billion thanks to a $200 million investment from Tekne Private Ventures, Alpine Opportunity Fund, and Edelweiss. Last December, the electric vehicle manufacturer raised $500 million from prominent institutional investors through a Term Loan B (TLB), which drew a massive response from investors, with interest … Read more
VerSe Innovation, the parent company of Dailyhunt and Josh, has raised almost Rs 207 crore ($28 million) from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) as part of its Series I fundraising round. CPPIB has been allocated 50,148 Series I Preference shares at an issue price of Rs 41,283.50 per share by the firm. VerSe … Read more
Jhaji Store, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) company that sells authentic handcrafted achars online, has raised an unknown sum from Velocity.in, India’s largest revenue-based funder. Jhaji Store has raised its first round of external funding. Jhaji Store is a women-led D2C firm that offers traditional homemade pickles from Darbhanga district in Bihar through their eCommerce store. It … Read more
Pumpkart, an e-commerce platform for farm equipment and water pumps, said that it has received $2 million in investment from the Karnataka government’s Samruddhi programme. Pumpkart is an online B2B marketplace for water pumps and various associated supplies, founded by KS Bhatia in June 2014. Pumps can be bought and sold on the platform by … Read more
Starya Mobility, a Sh! Ventures portfolio company in the Clean Mobility & EV domain, has raised INR 2 CR from ah! Ventures Angel Platform in a bridge round of finance. This bridge round of fundraising was raised within six months after their previous 2.2 million dollar fund raise on the ah! Ventures First Gear platform. … Read more
Agritech startup Agrowave has raised $2 million in Pre-Series A funding from Aroa Ventures, the family office of Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal. Agrowave is building a supply-driven farm-to-market mobility supply chain with a focus on first-mile logistics and trades supply through an integrated network of mobile pickup stations. T Agrowave, a Gurugram-based agritech firm, was … Read more
As part of the Pre Series A round, Angels and IIM Udaipur Incubation Center invested in LegalKart, a Gurgaon-based legal-tech business. LegalKart was founded in 2018 and obtained seed funding of about 3.5 crore from a group of angel investors in 2019. More than 1 lakh consumers have been served, and the platform now includes … Read more
Three Arrows Capital funds a $12.5 million strategic fundraising round for Stader Labs. The most recent boost puts the company’s value at $450 million. Stader is a non-custodial, smart contract-based staking platform that helps retail and institutions simply identify and utilise staking solutions. It was founded in April 2021 by Amitej Gajjala, Sidhartha Doddipalli, and … Read more
Stride Ventures led a $9 million (Rs 66.6 crore) debt fundraising round for Toothsi, a Mumbai-based at-home smile makeover firm. Dr Arpi Mehta, Dr Pravin Shetty, Dr Manjul Jain, and Dr Anirudh Kale founded the company in 2018 with the goal of giving Indians a better smile with clear aligners, a practical alternative to traditional … Read more
