Sayata, the leading marketplace for insurance brokers and carriers to easily scale their SMB portfolios, announced Shachar Gidron joined the organization as VP R&D. He will oversee the technological vision and development at Sayata, guiding the technology team in further innovating the leading digital distribution platform built for insurance brokers. Previously, Gidron was VP of R&D at … Read more
Chara, a Bangalore-based deep-tech start-up, has raised a pre-series A round of $4.75M led by Exfinity Venture Partners, a Bengaluru based VC firm known for its B2B focus and deep-tech expertise. This round also had participation from Vietnam based Big Capital, venture arm of Bitexco and Log9 Materials. Kalaari Capital and ciie.co who are existing … 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
SayF, the first rewards-based savings app in India, has secured $240k in a pre-seed round. Titan Capital, Sunn91 Ventures, and several illustrious angel investors are leading the current round. The platform will use the cash to create its initial team, improve its product, and do early product testing. SayF, founded in 2021 by Aman Singh … 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
Konark Gaur has been named the new Chief Marketing Officer of D2C personal care company Pilgrim. Abhishek Srivastava, formerly Co-founder & CTO of ThreadSol, has been named as the new Chief Technology Officer of Groyyo, a manufacturer-first, cross-border supply chain enablement firm in Fashion and Lifestyle. Under Srivastava’s direction, the company wants to reinvent its … Read more
Launched in 2016, India’s youngest and fastest-growing lending platform, completes its 7 years of operation. Since its inception, within a very short period of time, the lending platform has disbursed loans amounting to INR 7000 crore to date. The company disbursed INR 3500 crore in 2022 and plans to double its originations in 2023. The business has … Read more
TECNO, an innovative technology brand announces the India launch of PHANTOM X2 Pro 5G, featuring the world’s first retractable portrait lens. The PHANTOM X2 Pro 5G is an enhanced version of PHANTOM X2 5G launched early this month. While the latter was launched at INR 39,999, the Pro variant is being launched at INR 49,999. Launched … Read more
BeatO, a comprehensive digital care platform for controlling and reversing diabetes, today announced that they have more than 2 Million people with diabetes on their platform. The platform has seen its user base grow by 17x in the past 5 years. The majority of BeatO’s current user base is from South India (36%) followed by … Read more
AI Planet, a thriving global AI ecosystem recently acquired Learn.Machinelearning, a community of machine learning enthusiasts focused on sharing knowledge and create social good applications. This acquisition will provide the AI Planet to expand its community and accessibility of educational resources to individuals who are interested to learn about Machine Learning and use it in … Read more
The round was led by Research Capital’s Douglas Penny, Largest investment banking firm of Toronto, Canada and also saw the participation of ex Global CEO of Bookings.com (Stoffer Anko Norden). Startup Lanes, Marwari Catalysts and IVY Growth Associates played a important role in growth of the company. Hobit, Founded during the first lockdown in 2020, … 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
Canvas GFX, Inc, the leading provider of interactive digital work instructions software to manufacturing ecosystems, today announced that it has closed a $9m Series A-1 funding round led by ECoast Angels and Mendoza Ventures. The raise positions Canvas GFX to drive rapid growth for its interactive digital work instructions solution, Canvas Envision. Existing customers of Envision include Aerospace & Defense … Read more
Innoviti Technologies (formerly, Innoviti Payment Solutions), India’s largest collaborative commerce platform, has appointed Himanshu Sharma as Sr. Vice President of Issuing Bank Relationship. Sharma will be reporting to the CBO, Amrita Malik and will be based out of Mumbai. He will enhance Innoviti’s existing relationship with banks and contribute to new business initiatives. Sharma brings 17 years of experience in … Read more
Home grown brand, Zebronics, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products and DC, today unveiled DC character-themed designs for its range of computer peripherals and consumer electronics. These products, including smartwatches, audio and IT devices will depict fan favourite Black Adam, the adventurous Aquaman and infamous Super-Villain The Joker. Zebronics’ new DC collection will be available from 25th January … 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
The 16th Edition Auto Expo – The Motor Show 2023, was officially inaugurated today at the India Expo Mart in Greater Noida by Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Government of India and Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey, Union Minister for Heavy Industries, Government of India. Also present at the official inauguration were Mr. Vinod … Read more
Simplilearn, the world’s #1 online boot camp for digital economy skills training, has been named to the 2023 GSV 150 by GSV Ventures. The GSV 150 list highlights the world’s most transformational growth companies in digital learning and workforce skilling. GSV Ventures, a multi-stage venture capital firm, announced the 2023 edition of the GSV 150, a … Read more
India’s networking market which comprises Ethernet Switches, Routers, and WLAN segments has witnessed unprecedented growth with regard to vendor revenue during the third quarter of FY22 according to a special report published by IDC (International Data Corporation). NETGEAR, a global networking company providing hardware for consumers, businesses, and service providers is now amongst the top … Read more
