Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today announced the launch of its new Salesforce Startup Program in India, designed to enable startups to innovate, augment customer connections and scale their ventures to the next level. This program, debuting in India, is uniquely designed to provide disruptive startups with access to Salesforce technology, experts, ecosystems, as well as business … Read more
SADA, a leading business and technology consultancy and Google Cloud Premier Partner based in the USA, today announced its acquisition of Thiruvananthapuram Technopark-based ByteWave Digital, a Google Cloud Partner committed to providing innovative and scalable technology solutions and services to help businesses of all sizes unlock the power of the cloud. ByteWave Digital maintains its global delivery … Read more
AirProbe, a Bengaluru-based firm that employs artificial intelligence (AI) for solar system inspections, was bought by DroneBase, a U.S. intelligent aerial imaging company, for an undisclosed sum last week. AirProbe, founded in 2017 by Aditya Bhat, Kaustubh Karnataki, and Ganesh Shankar, combines thermal drone imaging to detect solar cell flaws and AI to increase efficiency. … Read more
December CIO Appointment Airtel CISO Manish Tiwari joins Fractal as CIO Fractal Analytics has appointed Manish Tiwari as its CIO. He will be based in Gurugram. At Fractal, Tiwari will be responsible for the company’s digital transformation and overseeing IT operations, cybersecurity, and risk management. Prior to joining Fractal, Tiwari was senior vice-president and global … Read more
Witzeal Technologies, a new-age gaming technology firm that specialises in developing futuristic games and features for the real money gaming (RMG) segment, has bolstered its senior leadership to stay ahead of the competition. It has announced the appointments of Peush Bery, head of product development strategy, and Yogvinder Singh, head of technology, as the first … 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
Dista, a deeptech business based in Pune and Delaware (US), has raised $1.2 million in funding. Pentathlon Ventures led the seed fundraising round, which included Core 91 and other individual investors. Nishant Kumar (Co-founder & Chief Product Officer), Shishir Gokhale (Co-founder & CEO), and Deepak Garg (Co-founder & CTO) co-founded Dista, which was incubated in … Read more
Razorpay, a fintech company founded by Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, and TCV, has secured $375 million in a Series F round led by Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, and TCV, and plans to extend its B2B payments business to Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines by next year. Existing investors such as Tiger Global, … Read more
Bizongo, a B2B ecommerce firm for businesses, has raised $110 million in a Series D round led by Tiger Global, valuing the company at $600 million. CDC, IFC EAF, BCap, Chiratae Ventures, Schroder Adveq, IFC, and Add Ventures by SCG were among the investors in this round of fundraising. The firm, which was founded in … Read more
Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire LeanSwift Solutions, a Florida, US headquartered system integrator of Infor Products whose service capabilities include ERP, e-commerce, digital transformation, supply chain, warehouse management systems, business intelligence and integrations. LeanSwift has development offices across … Read more
Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for health care, announced today that it has closed a Series C funding round of $55 million, led by March Capital, with additional support from Philips Ventures, and all previous investors including Venrock, Flare Capital, Breyer Capital, and inHealth Ventures. The round is also comprised of … Read more
RateGain, a travel and hospitality software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup, launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) today to collect Rs 1,336 crore. The price range for each share has been set at Rs 405 to Rs 425. The company announced that it has raised Rs 598.83 crore from 34 high-profile investors ahead of the public subscription opening. … Read more
SanDisk, a brand from Western Digital and trusted by professional content creators worldwide, has partnered with Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd for their recently released crime thriller film- ‘Bob Biswas’. The movie revolves around the protagonist, who suffers from memory loss and has difficulty recalling his criminal past. In line with this, Western Digital has … Read more
Outbrain Inc. (Nasdaq: OB), a leading recommendation platform for the open web, announced today that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire video intelligence AG, a Swiss-based contextual video technology platform for digital and Connected TV media owners. vi’s contextual and machine learning technology enables media owners to enhance user engagement and monetization by … Read more
Providing a commercially viable solution to the food industry to dispose of its used cooking oils (UCO), Uranus Oil Corp, a Chennai-based startup in renewable energy and waste management solutions, collects UCO for a price and supplies them to manufacture biodiesel, a cleaner and greener form of diesel. Uranus has recently set a record by collecting … Read more
Haber, based in Pune, has completed its Series B round, bringing its total capital raised to $27 million. Ascent Capital led the investment, which also included Accel, Elevation Capital, Beenext, Temasek partner Mukul Chawla, and GreyOrange founders SamayKohli and Akash Gupta. Their Series A fundraising, which took place in 2019, was spearheaded by Accel. Haber … Read more
