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‘Fightright’ launches fund for HNIs with Rs 100 crore

Kolkata-based legal tech firm Fightright announced the opening of a fund with Rs 100 crore in claims under management. Fightright uses AI and ML-backed analytics to fund commercial litigations. The fund, a special purpose company, will invest over a two to three year period in 15-20 commercial cases with an average ticket value of Rs … Read more

Trucking Marketplace RAAHO Raises Rs.20 Cr In Pre-Series A Funding

Raaho, India’s leading Digital Freight Network, has secured funding worth INR 20 crore in extension to the Pre-Series A round at a valuation of 4X over the last year. The round was led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), Roots Ventures, Blume Founders Fund and prominent Angels like Vijay Shekhar Sharma , Kunal Shah, K Krishna … Read more

Biotech Company OmniBRx Raises INR 30 Cr in Series A Funding

Bioprocess engineering firm OmniBRx announces a Series A equity fundraising from SIDBI Venture Capital Limited for 30 crore inr. Commenting on the occasion, Ravindra Patel, founder and CEO of OmniBRx Biotechnologies said “We are thankful to the team at SVCL for believing in our vision and backing us on our expansion plans”. He further added that … Read more

SimpleViralGames Raises Rs 4 Cr in Pre-Seed Funding

Simple Viral Games, also known as SVG, a platform for ultra-casual mobile gaming, revealed today that it had raised Rs 4 Cr (about $500,000) in a pre-seed round headed by WEH Ventures. Eximius Ventures, PointOne Capital, Force Ventures, and a few angel investors, including Ankit Agrawal (Founder and CEO of InsuranceDekho), Prashant Sachan, also participated … Read more

Alkem Laboratories invests $50M in biotech startup Enzene Biosciences

Alkem Laboratories subsidiary Enzene Biosciences (Enzene) has raised $50 million from Alkem Laboratories, Eight Roads Ventures, and F-Prime Capital. The company wants to expand in India and the US by using the funds it has raised to enhance production capabilities. Enzene, a company with its headquarters in Pune, has developed fully integrated biotech process development … Read more

Women-Focussed Fitness Firm SocialBoat Raises Funds

SocialBoat, a women’s health app, has announced raising an angel round of US$ 200K from Plan B Capital. Other angel investors who have committed to the venture include Abhijit Kane (Co-founder, Postman), Videt Jaiswal (Co-founder, Airblack), Bhuvan Gupta (Co-founder, OfBusiness) and Prateek Sharma (Managing Partner, AheadVC), Neeraj Gupta (Angel Investor) among others. The funds will … Read more

Wakefit.co raises INR 320 Crores in Series D funding led by Investcorp

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

myTVS raises further Rs. 203 cr from Lingotto

myTVS, a leading Indian player in the independent automobile aftermarket business announced its Series C fundraising of Rs. 690 cr as a combination of Rs. 487 cr from Castrol India Limited (Castrol) and Rs. 203 cr from an Exor fund managed by Lingotto. Lingotto is a wholly owned subsidiary of Exor NV, one of Europe’s … Read more

K8 School Launching India’s first AI enabled School LMS in January 2023

K8 School, India’s first and only Cognia-accredited online school is launching the first completely AI enabled Learning Management System (LMS) in India, on 26th January 2023. This LMS could be a path-breaking development in the field of school education, as it will aim to understand and analyze the learning behaviour of students and offer them … Read more

HyperPay has unveiled a new logo with recent 138M funding

In an exciting Q4 announcement from the largest and fastest growing payments services provider in the MENA region, HyperPay has unveiled a new logo, along with a complete brand overhaul in view of exciting expansion plans set for 2023. The news comes on the heels of HyperPay’s recent SAR 138M funding round led by Mastercard, with investments … Read more

Bahrain attracts US$72.7 million worth of investment in financial services

Bahrain’s investment promotion agency, the Bahrain Economic Development Board (Bahrain EDB), announced its participation in the Singapore Fintech Festival (2-4 November) with the aim to support fintech and financial services companies tap into MENA market through Bahrain. During the first three quarters of 2022, Bahrain EDB has supported nine financial services companies to setup or expand in Bahrain, … Read more

LUMIQ raises USD 5.5 million in Series A funding

LUMIQ has raised Rs 44.1 crore or $5.5 million in its Series A round led by existing investor Info Edge Ventures. In 2022, this is the 1st round of investment for the Data and Analytics company which builds datastack products and solutions, with a pure Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) focus. In this round, Info Edge Ventures spearheaded the round … Read more

GoFloaters, Hybrid Workplace Platform Startup, Raises Seed Funding led by Loyal VC

GoFloaters, the leading hybrid workplace platform in India, today announced it has secured an undisclosed amount in seed funding. The funding is led by Loyal VC, a Canada-based global venture fund with 220+ investments across 50+ countries. Funds will be primarily utilized to strengthen and accelerate its unified hybrid workplace solution – WorqFlexi. GoFloaters has built a one-of-a-kind … Read more

DeepTech EV Solutions company Vecmocon raises $5.2M in Funding

DeepTech EV Solutions company Vecmocon has raised $5.2M in funding from Tiger Global, Blume Ventures and prominent strategic angels. The company is based out of Delhi and had previously raised $300k and was also incubated at IIT Delhi & ISB. Vecmocon aims to utilise this fundraise to invest into team building, business expansion, scaling up … Read more

RadioMedix announces a $40 million Series A financing

RadioMedix, Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company announced an agreement with an entity related to Portland Investment Counsel Inc. (“Portland”) involving an equity investment of $40 million Series A funding round. RadioMedix is committed to the advancement of a targeted alpha therapy (TAT) pipeline and diagnostic companion radiopharmaceuticals for rare and aggressive cancers. The proceeds of … Read more

Vanity Wagon raises $2 million in series A funding

Agility Ventures Partners and Lotus Herbals Pvt Ltd led a $2 million pre-Series A fundraising on Friday, according to Vanity Wagon, a clean beauty marketplace. With further funding from Venture Catalysts, Inflection Point Ventures, and a few high-net-worth individuals (HNIs), the Delhi-based cosmetics company’s valuation increased to $8 million. Vanity Wagon is to use these … Read more