Halo, the world’s most advanced pet safety and training technology, announced that it is fully subscribed for its Series B funding round. Founded by IOT visionaries Ken and Michael Ehrman with dog behaviorist Cesar Millan, Halo achieved a valuation of $400 million. The raise marks a monumental moment for Halo and supports the company’s overall … Read more
Searchlight, a talent intelligence platform powered by hard data that measures the soft skills that can make or break quality of hire, announced today that it has closed a Series A funding round of $17 million led by Founders Fund with participation from Accel, Shasta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Operator Collective, and prominent angel investors including … Read more
Ekos, the leading business management software for craft beverage businesses, has closed a $21 million Series B funding round led by growth equity firm Catalyst Investors with participation from existing investors Noro-Moseley Partners. Ekos was the first software solution created specifically with craft producers in mind. Historically, craft businesses relied on manual record-keeping and disconnected systems, which are time-consuming and difficult to … Read more
Amid accelerated demand for its dental artificial intelligence (AI) software, Overjet (www.overjet.ai) today announced it has raised $42.5 million in Series B financing led by General Catalyst and Insight Partners with participation from existing investors Crosslink Capital and the MIT-affiliated E14 Fund in an oversubscribed round. Following the $27 million Series A round announced, just … Read more
Hevo, a SaaS firm based in San Francisco, revealed today that it has raised $30 million (about Rs 228 crore) in a Series B fundraising round headed by Sequoia Capital India, Qualgro, Lachy Groom, Chiratae Ventures, and angel investors. Sequoia’s Surge, Qualgro VC, Lachy Groom, and Chiratae Ventures had previously invested $8 million in the … Read more
Pre-owned vehicle ecommerce platform Cars24 has raised $400 million in finance, which includes a $300 million Series G equity round and a $100 million debt round from a variety of financial institutions. Return investor Alpha Wave Global (previously known as Falcon Edge Capital) led the Series G equity financing, which included participation from other existing … Read more
Atomberg Technology, a consumer product company, has raised $20 million in growth funding from Jungle Ventures and Inflexor Ventures. Existing investors such as A91 Partners and notable angel investor Ramakant Sharma, Co-founder of Livspace, also participated in the round. Atomberg, founded in 2012 by Manoj and Sibabrata Das, invented the ‘Brushless DC Motor’ (BLDC) technology … Read more
Haus & Kinder, a direct-to-consumer business, has raised Rs10 crore ($1.3 million) in a Pre-Series investment led by angel investor Shaival Desai. Early next year, the company plans to raise another $5 million (about Rs 35 crore) in a Series A fundraising round. Haus & Kinder plans to utilise the funds to expand its brand … Read more
Evenflow, an e-commerce roll-up platform, has received an unknown amount of money from Village Global, Venture Catalysts, and 9Unicorns in a pre-Series A round. Emil Michael, Anand Chandrasekaran, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Shah, and MageHold, among others, were among the angel investors who took part in the round. The new money will be used to … Read more
Bengaluru-based BharatX, a fintech firm that enables consumer placing platforms to offer credit-as-a-feature, has secured $250,000 (about Rs 1.81 crore) in a pre-Seed investment round spearheaded by prominent angel investors and other industry experts to help the Indian market embrace Embedded Credit. Mehul Nath Jindal, Eeshan Sharma, Shyam Murugan, and Siddharth Venu, who are also … Read more
Actress and social media sensation, Arishfa Khan has turned entrepreneur. Seen in TV shows such as Chhal – Sheh Aur Maat, Ek Veer Ki Ardaas… Veera, Jeannie Aur Juju, Uttaran, Meri Durga and several music videos, Arishfa Khan has been ruling social media since long. The 18-year-old is an inspiration to many girls out there … Read more
Zorro, a fictitious social networking platform, has secured $3.2 million in a seed round headed by 16 unicorn and soonicorn creators. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Paytm’s founder and CEO; Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms’ founder and CEO; Ankiti Bose, Zilingo’s founder and CEO; Kunal Shah, Founder and CEO, CRED; Ashish Hemrajani, Founder and CEO, BookMyShow; Ashneer Grover, … Read more
Ultraviolette Automotive Pvt Ltd, a Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler startup, has allegedly secured $14.85 million (Rs 112.5 crore) in a Series C financing from TVS Motor and Zoho Corporation. Ultraviolette is a company that designs, develops, and manufactures electric two-wheelers and accessories. It was founded in 2015. In October of last year, the business raised Rs … Read more
3one4 Capital, Saison Capital, Eximius Ventures, First Cheque, and Speciale Invest have all invested $1.5 million in fintech platform Fego.ai. The money will be used to strengthen and expand the startup’s developer services, as well as to grow its team and accelerate the debut of its products to the general market. Fego, which is set … Read more
AgentSync, the company building technology to power growth across the insurance industry, today announced a $75 million Series B at a $1.2 billion valuation, making AgentSync the only unicorn building infrastructure specifically designed to make the $1.3T US insurance industry run more efficiently. Led by Valor Equity Partners with participation from Craft Ventures, Tiger Global, … Read more
Agrostar, an agritech firm, has secured $70 million in a Series D round led by Evolvence, global asset manager Schroders Capital, Hero Enterprise, and the UK’s development finance organisation CDC. AgroStar, founded by Shardul and Sitanshu Sheth, has one mission: “Helping Farmers Win.” It uses data and technology to address farmers’ issues with access to … Read more
Probus Insurance, a Mumbai-based insurtech company, has raised $6.7 million in a fundraising round headed by BlueOrchard Impact Investment Managers of Switzerland. Probus, which began as a typical insurance brokerage firm in 2003 and has now evolved into a tech-enabled platform, has built a strong framework and ecosystem in the online retail distribution arena. Probus … Read more
Moengage, a Bengaluru-based insights-led consumer engagement platform, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $30 million in Series D funding, more than doubling its previous Series C1 investment of $32.5 million in July. Steadview Capital led the investment, with existing investors Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, and Matrix Partners also participating. … Read more
Hometap, which provides a smart, new loan alternative for tapping into home equity without taking on debt, today announced it has raised $60 million of new operating capital in a funding round led by American Family Ventures along with new and existing investors including Bain Capital, ICONIQ Capital, LLC, G20 Ventures, Pillar, and General Catalyst. … Read more
OpsLyft, a San Francisco and Noida-based DevOps startup, has raised $500k in seed funding from unicorn founders, Anand Chandrasekaran, and marquee angels from Freshworks, Oyo, Innovaccer, other angel investors based in India and the US. The list of angel investors includes Anand Chandrasekaran, former Executive VP, Five9 and former CPO @ Snapdeal, Shailendra Singh, board … Read more
