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
T-Hub, which leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem, today announced that it got selected under the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme by DPIIT, GOI to disburse INR 5 Cr among eligible startups with an objective to support and fuel early stage funding in startups. With an aim to provide value-driven and effective growth for the startups, … 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
We Founder Circle led a $270,000 seed round for Quizy, a real money gaming platform. Multiple institutional investors, including FAAD Network, Anchorage Capital Partners, Capital A, and Dholakia Ventures, participated in the investment round lead by We Founder Circle. The funds will be used to hire extraordinary talent and attract new users, according to the … 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
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
Pixis, formerly Pyxis One, announced today that it has raised $100 million in Series C funding. Pixis is a company that provides contextual AI infrastructure with no code for total marketing optimization. The new funding will be used to help the company quickly scale its AI platforms and plugins, as well as expand across North … Read more
Mankind Pharma and previous investor Sixth Sense Ventures led a Rs. 50 crore Series A investment for Dogsee Chew. This is Mankind Pharma’s first foray into the pet food market. Dogsee Chew is the only firm that offers 100% vegetarian dog treats, and it was founded by Bhupendra Khanal and Sneh Sharma, a husband-and-wife team. … Read more
IndiGG, Yield Guild Games’ (YGG) India sub-decentralised autonomous organisation (subDAO), has received $6 million in funds to support the play-to-earn movement in India. Sequoia Capital India, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jump Capital, Variant Fund, Dune Ventures, Griffin Gaming Partners, Transcend Fund, Animoca Brands, Play Ventures, Backed and Sfermion, IVC, Emfarsis, and others were among those that … Read more
Handshake, the largest early career network, today announced a Series F round of $200 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion—more than double its valuation in 2021. The round, led by Coatue Management and Valiant Peregrine Fund with participation from Base10’s Advancement Initiative, among other investors, reflects unprecedented demand amidst a generational shift in the way people start, jump start, … Read more
Diginoor, an Indian NFT marketplace that launched with Rajinikanth movie NFTs, announced $1 million in its seed funding. The round saw participation from Contrary Capital, Polygon Fund, Sandeep Nailwal, Kunal Shah, Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi (MD at Embassy Capital), and others. Founded in 2021 by Chennai based teenage entrepreneurs- Shaamil Karim & Yash Rathod, Diginoor aims … Read more
Scripbox, India’s first digital wealth manager, said today that it has raised USD 21 million in series-D fundraising from a mix of equity and debt investors. Transpose Platform, DMI Alternative Investment Fund – The Sparkle Fund, InnoVen Capital, Trifecta Capital, KPB Family Trust, LetsVenture, Kube VC, and YY Capital LLC are among the investors in … Read more
Exponentia Ventures, a fund focused on new company ideas in both the B2C and B2B space, has invested USD 5 million in PLUCKK (A brand owned by Fruveggiie Tech Pvt limited), a fresh produce food-tech firm. Pluckk, founded by Pratik Gupta in 2021, intends to become India’s first digital commerce company, serving the growing demand … Read more
MyCaptain, a Bangalore-based business reinventing the future of work, has raised $3 million in pre-Series-A funding led by Ankur Capital. IPV (Inflection Point Ventures), Firstport Ventures, IIM Calcutta Angels Network, Singapore Angel Investors, and other Super Angels also participated in the round. Through over 30+ Beginner to Advanced Live Cohort based courses, MyCaptain, an online … Read more
