PayGlocal, a fintech platform, has raised $4.9 million in a Series A fundraising round headed by Sequoia Capital India, with BeeNext, Jitendra Gupta, and Amrish Rau participating. The cash will be used to develop the merchant and partner ecosystem, scale up the product, and hire more people. Prachi Dharani, Rohit Sukhija, and Yogesh Lokhande founded … Read more
Immensitas Private Limited has raised $2.3M in a Pre-Series A1 round co-led by growx ventures, Artha Venture Fund (AVF), and DSP Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. The round also saw participation from LogX Ventures and Atrium Angels, the ISB alumni sponsored micro VC fund. In July, the company had raised a round from AVF and LogX. … Read more
CollegeDekho, India’s largest college admissions and higher education services platform, closes its Series B funding with Disrupt ADQ and QIC coming on board recently. The USD 35 million (~INR 260 crore) round has been led by Winter Capital, ETS Strategic Capital – the private equity investments arm of ETS (creator of the TOEFL® tests and … Read more
Simpl, a cardless payment network with embedded 1-Tap Checkout, Buy Now Pay Later and Buyer Protection, has raised a $40M Series B round led by Valar Ventures & IA Ventures with participation from LFH Ventures and other internal investors. This investment brings the total capital raised by the company to $83M. With Simpl, online merchants … Read more
ABL Workspaces, a coworking space provider, has raised Rs 15 crore from Ethik Inc, a Canadian company, for expansion. ABL Workspaces, which opened its first location in Delhi-NCR in December 2017, now has nine locations. ABL Workspaces stated in a statement that company has raised Rs 15 crore in a Series A fundraising round from … Read more
Veg Route, a B2C fresh vegetable Agritech supply chain, announced today that it has received $125K in Pre-Seed Funding. The round was headed by Mohan K, CEO & Mr. Jai Kumar, CTO of Ippopay, Prabhu R, Co-Founder of M2P Fintech, and Omar Bin Brek, Founder of UAE-based Fin-Tech Startup Foloosi. Veg Route is assisting farmers … Read more
Artha Venture Fund (AVF), India’s first early-stage micro-VC fund, led a seed round for InstaAstro, a new-age wellness and spiritual services platform that blends the ancient Indian expertise of Astrology, Yoga, Ayurveda, and Meditation. The company aims to upend the online astrology market by catering to tech-savvy millennials with strong spiritual values. InstaAstro is tackling … Read more
EatClub Brands, which operates popular brands like BOX8 & MOJO Pizza has raised $40 million in a round led by Tiger Global. EatClub Brands is a technology first, full-stack cloud kitchen company, and it has one of Asia’s largest cloud kitchen networks. Currently, a total of 8 brands operate out of its 150+ kitchens, GLOBO … Read more
Mumbai Angels Network sponsored a $1 million round of funding for D2C firm Jade Forest. In November 2020, the company raised a $250k seed round. The new money will be put toward expanding geographically and entering the ready-to-drink beverage category. Jade Forest is a luxury non-alcoholic beverage brand founded by Shuchir Suri and Punweet Singh … Read more
21K School, India’s first online-only school, just raised $5 million in a pre-Series A financing led by Ronnie Screwvala, Co-Founder and Chairman of upGrad. Santosh Kumar, Yeshwanth Raj Parasmal, Dinesh Kumar, and Joshi Kumar founded 21K School in 2020 with the goal of creating a 100% online school that offers children aged 3 to 18 … Read more
Vedantu, a pioneer in LIVE online learning, announced today a $3 million ESOPS liquidity initiative for all qualifying employees. The founders will not be part of the repurchase, but top executives and qualifying active employees who have completed the vesting term will be able to sell their ESOP shares. Vedantu launched a $100 million Series … Read more
Drona Pay, a Mumbai-based SaaS solution, has raised $500K in a seed round led by Varanium Capital, Credit Saison, and fintech experts Kunal Shah, Jitendra Gupta, Amrish Rau, and others. Drona Pay, founded in 2021 by Satish Kashyap, Pallavi Narvekar, and Sukhdev Sinh Zala, provides real-time protection for financial institutions using ml and proprietary data … Read more
Pepperfry founders Ambareesh Murthy and Ashish Shah have invested $1 million in food-tech firm Adonia Hospitality. In the next six months, the funding will be used to open six more eateries. The company was founded by Rupesh Kumar Shah and now has 6 restaurants in its portfolio. It is profitable with an ARR of Rs … Read more
Rebel Foods, the parent company of Faasos, has raised an additional $14.5 million in its Series F round. The company had recently raised $175 million in this round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, making it the first full-stack foodtech company to join the coveted club of unicorns this year. The company, founded by Jaydeep … Read more
iotechnology startup Tiamat Sciences today announced its $3 million seed financing round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures with participation from Social Impact Capital and Cantos. Tiamat Sciences manufactures animal-free proteins using a proprietary plant molecular farming platform. By replacing costly bioreactors with plants, the company produces key reagents for biotechnology companies … Read more
Estonian start-up Gelatex has a bold vision of starting a new chapter in the futuristic story “Cell-cultured meat cheaper than ever: how did it happen?” Gelatex has found a solution to scale and enhance the production of nanofibrous material that could be used to grow cell-cultured meat. Within their innovative team composed of materials science … Read more
