HappyEasyGo, a fast-growing online travel agency (OTA Platform), currently invested by Samsung Venture Investment, Korea Investment Partners Co. Ltd., M&S Partners Pte. Ltd., CVC Capital Partners, and UOB Venture Management, has raised new funding from its existing shareholders. The funding is backed by the encouraging business trends in the travel industry in the Indian market. … Read more
Mankekar Family Office, Artha Venture Fund, Siddharth Shah, and API Holdings’ Dharmil Sheth, among others, led a $4.5 million pre-Series A fundraising round for Mumbai-based chess institution HobSpace. The money will be used to expand internationally and speed up product development. HobSpace will also put the money on technology to improve the students’ entire experience. … Read more
Coins.ph, the Philippines’ leading fiat, and crypto wallet services provider and Joffre Capital portfolio company, today announced the successful completion of a $30 million Series C financing led by Ribbit Capital, and joined by other strategic investors. The new capital will be used to further expand its Web3 ecosystem and presence throughout Southeast Asia. Coins.ph … Read more
Fortis Digital Ventures is raising $100 million for an altcoin-focused digital assets fund. The fund attempts to bridge the gap between traditional and decentralised finance, according to a statement provided with CoinDesk by the company. Fortis Digital Ventures was founded by the managing partners of Fortis Financial Group, a Seattle-based investment firm with over $250 … Read more
Heartex, the company behind the leading open source data labeling platform Label Studio, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total raised to $30 million. Redpoint Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors, including Unusual Ventures, Bow Capital, Swift Ventures and some notable angel investors. Satish Dharmaraj, managing director at Redpoint … Read more
KaJ Labs made headlines with the announcement of its blockchain platform Lithosphere and its unique interoperability capabilities. The foundation just announced that Lithosphere has sold $400 million LITHO tokens to Global Emerging Markets (GEM) digital, Four capital and individual investors. GEM is a $5 billion alternative investment group based in the Bahamas. This deal marks … Read more
Few sources with firsthand knowledge of the situation said that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, has managed to steal the show by announcing that it is in talks to buy a major minority stake in direct-to-consumer cosmetics and personal care firm Wow Skin Science for $75 million. WowSkin Science, founded in 2014 by brothers Manish … Read more
Fyllo, an agritech firm, has secured $2 million in a round headed by IAN, Triveni Trusts, Ninjacart, and new investors Venture Catalysts, StarAgri, Kia Ora Ventures, Singularity Ventures, Mastermind Capital, and Angel investors. Fyllo, a data-driven Agri-science platform founded in 2019, ensures the quality and quantity of agricultural produce. Their IoT technology identifies and measures … Read more
As part of its Series C round, non-bank lender Vivriti Capital Pvt. Ltd raised an extra $30 million (about Rs 228 crore) from TVS Shriram Growth Fund 3. Vivriti Finance, which provides debt capital to SMEs in India, most recently secured a Series B investment from Lightrock in two tranches, with $100 million in March … Read more
Stord, the cloud supply chain leader, announced today that it has raised an additional $120 million in Series D financing led by Franklin Templeton, bringing the total round to $210 million. Now valued at roughly $1.3 billion, Stord recently crossed $200 million in annualized revenue run-rate and has raised $325 million in total funding. Participants across the entire Series D financing included new investors Sozo … Read more
MoEVing, one of the leading full stack electric mobility platforms, has raised $5 million in seed funding from investors such as BeyondTeq, a UAE-based venture capital firm, GCC family offices, Strides One, TradeCred, N+1 Capital, Nitish Mittersain, and others. MoEVing is well-known for providing solutions to top e-commerce, e-grocery, FMCG, and D2C enterprises to help … Read more
ADM Capital has invested $15 million in loan and equity for Bengaluru-based edtech firm iNurture. As part of the arrangement, iNurture’s current investor VenturEast will exit the company, and ADM Capital will take over its shares. The new funds will be used to expand iNurture’s National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) programmes, improve its technology stack, … Read more
Ministry of Ayush has taken several initiatives to encourage a startup culture in the field of traditional medicines. The three-day Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit (GAIIS 2022) also witnessed enthusiastic participation from startups and students, who showcased their products and various initiatives. In the exhibition held at GAIIS 2022, many established companies along with … Read more
Experify, the first platform to enable a truly authentic product review experience by connecting prospective buyers with purchasers, closed a $4M seed round led by Vertex Ventures US, with the participation of Sonae Investment Management and the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. In recent years, the rise of disingenuous influencers, hidden advertisements, and unverified purchasers have greatly … Read more
Native Angels, a Tier II and III region-focused angel investor network, led a Rs 1.15 crore angel fundraising round for Coimbatore-based agro firm Laymen Agro Ventures, which operates under the VilFresh brand. Upaya Social Ventures and Sangam Ventures also took part in the round. The business hopes to use the funds to expand to five … Read more
obox.ai, a software company that provides home service marketplaces with an AI-based infrastructure to directly connect their customers with skilled trades professionals (“pros”), announced today it has secured a $42M Series B funding round led by General Catalyst. Additional investments came from new and existing investors including Resolute VC, NNS, Expanding Capital and Joey Low. The company is … Read more
