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
Premagic, a workflow management platform for photographers, has received a pre-seed fundraising round of INR 2 crore from 300 venture capitalists and angel investors. Premagic, a B2B SAAS product for event photography founded in 2018 by Anup Mohan, Anenth Vishnu, and Mevin Chirayath, helps photographers streamline their workflow and substantially improve the efficacy of client … 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
ZenOnco.io, an oncology healthcare platform, has raised $1.4 million in a seed round led by Enzia Ventures, with Better Capital, Apollo Hospitals, Titan Capital, Dr Arvind Kumar, and other angel investors participating. According to a news statement from ZenOnco.io, the funds will be used to expand the company’s current activities and introduce new products. ZenOnco.io … 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
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
Park+, a new smart parking solution business founded by Amit Lakhotia, the former vice president of Paytm Payments, revealed on Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in a Series B investment led by Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India, and Epiq Capital. AdvantEdge, Fund II – a series of Somani Investments LP, and Motherson … Read more
QI Tech, fintech that provides a range of financial services through APIs and the first SCD approved by the Brazilian Central Bank, announced today that GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has invested $50M in one of the largest Series A in Latin America. QI Tech will invest in the construction of new products, focusing especially … Read more
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) startup Wallmantra has raised an undisclosed amount of financing from Velocity.in, India’s largest revenue-based financier. The start-up has so far raised three rounds from Velocity, cumulatively raising 5x the amount raised in the initial round. Founded in 2013, Wallmantra designs and sells affordable wall and interior decor via its own website and marketplaces … Read more
Purplle.com, one of India’s leading online beauty destinations, today announced a $75M funding, welcoming Kedaara to the cap table, along with doubling down by Sequoia Capital India and Blume Ventures. This comes six months after a $45M funding backed by Verlinvest, Blume Ventures, JSW Ventures, and first-time investor Sequoia Capital India. The investment will augment … Read more
