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Healthtech startup MFine lays off over 500 employees

According to employees interviewed by Moneycontrol, healthtech business MFine, owned by Novocura Tech Health Services, has cut off around 500 employees due to a financial shortage at the Beenext and Stellaris-backed startup. The Bengaluru-based business employs around 1,000 people and has laid off workers in the data science, engineering, and product areas. A few individuals … Read more

ZincSearch raises $3.6 mn in seed funding

ZincSearch, a full-text search engine, announced a $3.6 million seed funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, Secure Octane, Cardinia Ventures, and technology leaders including Anand Babu Periasamy, Balaji Parimi, Rob Skillington, Anshu Sharma, Luke Kim, Awais Nemat, Dan Pinto, and Alex Gallegos. ZincSearch was founded by Prabhat Sharma, … Read more

Web3 Startup Questbook Raises $8.3 Mn in series A Funding

Questbook, a Web3 grants platform, raised $8.3 million from Lemniscap in its Series A fundraising round. Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, Dragonfly, Hashed, Polygon, Balaji Srinivasan, Raj Gokal (Solana), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), and Maneesh Sharma all participated in the round (GitHub). Abhilash Inumella, Subhash Karri, Sriharsha Karamchati, and Madhavan Malolan created Questbook in the United … Read more

Cars24 Lays Off 600 Employees To Cut Cost

Following Vedantu, Unacademy, and Meesho, Cars24, an upcoming IPO, has laid off about 600 staff in the last few weeks. Across divisions, the startup has primarily laid off people in lesser levels. According to the article, the company employed roughly 9,000 people before the layoffs. According to these people, layoffs have occurred across departments and … Read more

Bengaluru based Startup GeoIQ raises $2.25 mn in funding

GeoIQ, a hyperlocal performance prediction firm, has raised $2.25 million from Lenskart and current investors 9Unicorns and Ecosystem Ventures. The funding will be used to grow into worldwide geographies, develop the startup’s proprietary data stack, and leverage data scientist networks to build various AI models. Devashish Fuloria, Tusheet Shrivastava, and Ankita Thakur created Bengaluru-based GeoIQ … Read more

SaaS firm SirionLabs snags $85 mn in Series D Funding

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), a way of managing contracts from start to finish, including award, compliance, and renewal, can be costly to businesses. According to World Commerce and Contracting, the average cost of a simple contract is $ 6,900, with more complex contracts costing roughly $ 49,000. Many entrepreneurs, including United Lex co-founder Ajay Agrawal, … Read more

web3 games marketplace Tegro Reveals $1 mn Grant for Game Developers

Web3 games marketplace based in India Tegro has launched a one-million-dollar award for web3 game creators. Developers can apply for up to $25,000 in funding for their projects with no strings attached. Successful candidates will receive advice on how to improve the quality of their web3 games from a founding team with extensive expertise creating … Read more

Nazara reports 273% growth in PAT; 109% growth in EBITDA & 37% Revenue growth YoY for FY22

Nazara Technologies, an India-based diversified gaming and sports media platform with a presence in India and across emerging and developed global markets such as Africa and North America, has announced its audited standalone and consolidated results for the fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2022. As of March 31, 2022, Nazara has diverse … Read more

HR Tech Company Launches SHL Labs, Plans To Invest $ 30 Mn in innovations for Talent

SHL, the global leader in talent acquisition and talent management technology, announced the launch of SHL’s innovation hub – SHL Labs. Getting together a broad range of talent and capabilities across Data Science, IO Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Design, SHL Labs has the ambitious goal of leading the way into the future of Talent Technology. … Read more

Bytebeam Secures $3 M In Seed Round

Bytebeam, a Bengaluru-based B2B startup that simplifies Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, has received $3 million in seed funding from Together Fund, Accel, and STRIVE VC. AdvantEdge VC, backed by the Motherson Group, Phanindra Sama, founder of redBus; Tanmai Gopal, cofounder of Hasura; Vimal Kumar, founder of Juspay; Mekin Maheshwari, former CPO at Flipkart; Deepak … Read more

SG Analytics Welcomes Sid Banerjee as New CEO

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

Mindtree and LTI Announce Merger to Create India’s Next Large-Scale IT Services Player

The Boards of Directors of Mindtree and LTI at their respective meetings held today approved a composite scheme of amalgamation of both these independently listed IT services companies under the Larsen & Toubro Group. The proposed integration will see Mindtree and LTI join strengths to create an efficient and scaled up IT services provider exceeding $3.5 … Read more

Bizzo raises $2 million from ICICI Bank-led group of investors

Bizzo, a technology startup, revealed on Thursday that it had received $2 million from a consortium of investors led by ICICI Bank and Orios Venture Partners. Bizzo, which was founded in 2021 and has its headquarters in Mumbai, enables service providers grow, scale, and organise their operations digitally, including automating bookings 24 hours a day, … Read more

SHIELD expands global footprint to India; launches engineering hub in Bengaluru

SHIELD, the world’s leading risk intelligence company, today officially announced its expansion into India, the fastest growing mobile market worldwide. The move follows successful partnerships with ShareChat, MOJ, and Carandbike, and marks the company’s continued focus on growing its network of clientele across India. SHIELD aims to continue its mission to help digital businesses globally … Read more

Frost & Sullivan & Vizru Sign Multi-year Strategic Partnership to Enable Technology-driven Enterprise Growth

Frost & Sullivan has entered into a strategic partnership with Vizru to revolutionize technology transformation for enterprises and accelerate growth for its customers. “Large enterprises have built significant assets over decades in the form of customers, data, contracts, supply chain ecosystems, products, and services,” explained Ramesh Mahalingam, CEO of Vizru. “However, they are struggling to monetize … Read more

Bengaluru-based deep tech startup SatSure acquires Farm Management software CropTrails

SatSure, a deep tech startup working at the intersection of spacetech, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Software as a Service (SaaS) to drive decision intelligence, is pleased to announce the acquisition of SaaS application CropTrails, which was conceptualised and incorporated in the year 2018 by Indore-based startup OEPP Innovations Private Limited. CropTrails is a web and … Read more