Healthtech startup Traya raises $2.2 million in pre-Series A funding round, led by Fireside Ventures

Posted on January 13, 2022January 13, 2022Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Healthtech startup Traya raises $2.2 million in pre-Series A funding round, led by Fireside Ventures

Holistic hair care platform Traya has raised $2.2 million in a pre-Series A funding round, led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from existing investors Kae Capital and Whiteboard Capital. Traya has taken upon itself to bring about a change in the hair industry by providing a holistic solution to manage hair loss. The company said it will use the funds to strengthen research and development, build cutting edge technology to personalise the hair growth experience and acquire talent and expand … Continue reading “Healthtech startup Traya raises $2.2 million in pre-Series A funding round, led by Fireside Ventures”

Global tech VC investment in startups hits record high of $675B in 2021; India ranks 3rd with $44.6B after US & China: report

Posted on January 13, 2022January 13, 2022Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Global tech VC investment in startups hits record high of $675B in 2021; India ranks 3rd with $44.6B after US & China: report

Bengaluru & London among top five cities for VC investment in 2021 – with cities firms raising $25.5B and $18.6 B respectively Bengaluru produces 16 new unicorns during 2021, London 20 Global tech VC investment into startups hit a record level of $675B in 2021, doubling the previous all-time high of $340.6B in 2020. The investments in 2021 were led by the US at $328.8B followed by China at $61.8B and India coming in third with a $44.6B funding into … Continue reading “Global tech VC investment in startups hits record high of $675B in 2021; India ranks 3rd with $44.6B after US & China: report”

Fractal announces US$ 360 million investment from TPG

Posted on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Fractal announces US$ 360 million investment from TPG

TPG, a leading global alternative asset firm, and Fractal (fractal.ai), a global provider of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics solutions to Fortune 500® companies, today announced that they have signed a definitive investment agreement. TPG is investing US$ 360 million (about INR 2700 crores) in Fractal through TPG Capital Asia, the firm’s Asia-focused private equity platform, in a transaction that includes a combination of primary investment and secondary share purchase from Funds advised by Apax, who will remain a major shareholder following the … Continue reading “Fractal announces US$ 360 million investment from TPG”

Innoviti Raises Rs. 80 Cr. in a First Close in Ongoing Series D Round

Posted on January 4, 2022January 4, 2022Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Innoviti Raises Rs. 80 Cr. in a First Close in Ongoing Series D Round

(Valuation multiplies 2.5X as company approaches profitability) Series D funding, a mix of debt and equity, was carried out by Trifecta Debt Fund, Patni Advisors,  andBessemer Venture Partners. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, the doyen amongst value investors, Bharat  Jaisinghani, and a clutch of other individual investors also participated in the same. Innoviti’s  valuation has multiplied 2.5X from its Series C round closed a few months back. Innoviti enables businesses to collaborate on payment transactions and turn them into purchase  tools that are … Continue reading “Innoviti Raises Rs. 80 Cr. in a First Close in Ongoing Series D Round”

FLO MOBILITY bags $ 400K Funding in round led by DevX Venture Fund, Venture Garage Angels & Blume Founder Fund

Posted on December 20, 2021December 20, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on FLO MOBILITY bags $ 400K Funding in round led by DevX Venture Fund, Venture Garage Angels & Blume Founder Fund

⮚       Funding will be used to expand the network in India ⮚       Company to foray into Europe, USA, Middle East & East Asian markets ⮚       Build Tech capabilities and recruit aggressively  Flo Mobility, a vision-based autonomous technology company, today announced that it has raised $400K from DevX Venture Fund, Venture Garage Angels, Blume Founders Fund and other marquee angels. The company’s stated vision is to build a universal autonomy platform that can bring autonomous capabilities to vehicles across industries and form factors. The company … Continue reading “FLO MOBILITY bags $ 400K Funding in round led by DevX Venture Fund, Venture Garage Angels & Blume Founder Fund”

BUMMER BAGS $ 180 K FUNDING FROM SINGAPORE’S BEENEXT

Posted on December 10, 2021December 10, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on BUMMER BAGS $ 180 K FUNDING FROM SINGAPORE’S BEENEXT

Ø  Funding will be used to expand markets and grow user base   Ø  Build Tech capabilities and deepen product-centric research   Ø  Also to widen relationships with user communities & customers Bummer, the Ahmedabad-based new-age essential wear company, today announced that it has raised $ 180 K from Singapore-based BeeNext. The company is a new-age, essential wear firm focussed on providing the softest innerwear solutions designed to make India’s 40 cr millennials good & comfortable about themselves. Bummer’s stated mission is to target millennials … Continue reading “BUMMER BAGS $ 180 K FUNDING FROM SINGAPORE’S BEENEXT”

leap.club, a professional network for women, raises $810,000 in pre-series A round led by Enzia Ventures, Kunal Shah, and its users

Posted on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on leap.club, a professional network for women, raises $810,000 in pre-series A round led by Enzia Ventures, Kunal Shah, and its users

Launched in May 2020, leap.club – a community led professional network for women has raised $810,000 in a pre-series A round led by Enzia Ventures, Kunal Shah, and its users. Existing investors Whiteboard Capital, Titan Capital and Artha India Ventures also participated. What stands out is that 13 early members of the community joined this round making leap.club one of the few startups to raise funds from its users. leap.club’s cap table boasts of 24 women angel investors, one of … Continue reading “leap.club, a professional network for women, raises $810,000 in pre-series A round led by Enzia Ventures, Kunal Shah, and its users”

Kickflow announces the launch of Quadratic Funding platform; Bringing Democratic Crowdfunding to Tezos

Posted on October 1, 2021October 1, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Kickflow announces the launch of Quadratic Funding platform; Bringing Democratic Crowdfunding to Tezos

Developed based on the Capital-constrained Quadratic Finance model; Kickflow along with its governance token will enable startups in the Tezos ecosystem to crowdfund and receive grants through mathematically optimal algorithms  Kolkata, India, October 1 2021–  Kickflow, an alumni of the prestigious Tezos India Fellowship Program, launches its first-ever decentralized, open-source crowdfunding and grants platform. Utilising the concepts of Capital-constrained Liberal Radicalism (CLR) and Quadratic Funding, the platform, along with its governance token, will allow projects to seek funds matched through … Continue reading “Kickflow announces the launch of Quadratic Funding platform; Bringing Democratic Crowdfunding to Tezos”

Grip Invest Raises $3 Million Series A Round Led by Venture Highway and Endiya Partners

Posted on August 11, 2021August 11, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Grip Invest Raises $3 Million Series A Round Led by Venture Highway and Endiya Partners

Plans to utilize the capital to expand the range of investment products offered, launch new user features Plans to strengthen its team as it targets to facilitate INR 1,000 Cr in investments by Sept’22. Grip Invest, a digital platform for facilitating new-age asset-backed investments, has raised INR 21 Cr ($3 million) in its Series A round led by Venture Highway and Endiya Partners. The round also saw participation from AdvantEdge, existing investors Anicut Angel Fund and Gemba Capital, as well … Continue reading “Grip Invest Raises $3 Million Series A Round Led by Venture Highway and Endiya Partners”

Biconomy Raises $9 Million Led By Mechanism Capital and DACM to simplify web3.0

Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Biconomy Raises $9 Million Led By Mechanism Capital and DACM to simplify web3.0

The multi-chain relayer network used to simplify Web3.0 transactions offers decentralized blockchain interactions and seamless multi-chain experience Biconomy (https://biconomy.io/), a blockchain transaction platform with Indian founders, announced today that it has raised $9 million in a private funding round led by DACM and Mechanism Capital, with strategic investments from Coinbase, Bain Capital, Coinfund, NFX, True Ventures, Proof Group, Ledgerprime, Primitive Ventures, Genblock, Rarestone Capital, Huobi Innovation Labs and Capital Partners. The raise also includes angel investments from Stani of Aave, … Continue reading “Biconomy Raises $9 Million Led By Mechanism Capital and DACM to simplify web3.0”

JITO Angel Network Invests in SaaS startup and 100x.VC portfolio BHyve in the $300k round along with other Investors

Posted on July 16, 2021July 16, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on JITO Angel Network Invests in SaaS startup and 100x.VC portfolio BHyve in the $300k round along with other Investors

~ BHyve will use the raised funds for technology, marketing to enhance sales BHyve, a Future of Work Platform for diffusing Employee Tacit Knowledge and enabling Peer Learning Networks has raised $300K from JITO Angel network along with Letsventure and other Angel Investors. Backed by 100X.VC earlier in May this year, BHyve will use the freshly infused capital for Marketing to increase the sales and build the brand, they would also use the funds for enhancing the technology and build great clientele. Omkar … Continue reading “JITO Angel Network Invests in SaaS startup and 100x.VC portfolio BHyve in the $300k round along with other Investors”

Crowdsourcing Platform MyMobiForce raises $1.42 Mn Pre-Series A round led by Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund

Posted on July 5, 2021July 5, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Crowdsourcing Platform MyMobiForce raises $1.42 Mn Pre-Series A round led by Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund

Delhi based MyMobiForce (Innotion Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) has raised $1.42 Million (10.3 Crores INR) as part of Pre-Series A round of funding led by Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund with participation from Group of Angels led by Manu Iyer of Bluehill Capital, Acsys Investments and Ashutosh Agrawal (Ex-Urban Company). MyMobiForce is an AI powered crowdsourcing Platform which empowers businesses to scale effectively by providing on-demand Field Technical workforce in a plug and play fashion. The company provides services to marquee brands and … Continue reading “Crowdsourcing Platform MyMobiForce raises $1.42 Mn Pre-Series A round led by Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund”

Prabhuji Online raises funds in pre-series A round from Singapore and India based Marquee Angel Investors to fuel expansion plans

Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Prabhuji Online raises funds in pre-series A round from Singapore and India based Marquee Angel Investors to fuel expansion plans

Disrupts the hyper local delivery model in the devotional sector  Prabhuji Online, India’s fastest growing technology enabled “Subscription Commerce Company”, has raised an undisclosed amount of funds in pre-series A round from Singapore and India based marquee angel investors. Prabhuji Online is into daily hyper local delivery of fresh flowers and Pooja Samagri. The Company plans to expand into providing Panditji Services to home, organising devotional singers as well as religious and Spiritual Tourism very soon. Prabhuji Online till now … Continue reading “Prabhuji Online raises funds in pre-series A round from Singapore and India based Marquee Angel Investors to fuel expansion plans”

Nua raises $7.1M in pre-Series B funding round led by Lightbox

Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Nua raises $7.1M in pre-Series B funding round led by Lightbox

Includes existing investor, Kae Capital and new investors, Deepika Padukone, Vindi Banga & Kamini Banga Brand sees 87x growth in subscriber base in 18 months Closing its third round of institutional funding, Nua has raised $7.1 million in a pre-series B funding round, led by existing investor, Lightbox Ventures. Former President, Global Foods, Home & Personal Care at Unilever, Vindi Singh Banga and Kamini Banga of the Banga family office as well as Kae Capital also participated in the funding round. The … Continue reading “Nua raises $7.1M in pre-Series B funding round led by Lightbox”

Lenskart launches Lenskart Vision Fund

Posted on June 25, 2021June 25, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Lenskart launches Lenskart Vision Fund

–          To invest $2 million in each of the selected start-ups –          Lenskart Vision Fund aims to nurture innovations disrupting eyewear, eye-care and omni-channel retail India’s leading omni-channel D2C eyewear brand Lenskart has announced its plans to invest up to $2mn in each of the selected start-ups that are synergistic to the eyewear, eye-care and omni-channel retail sectors. In addition to the infusion of capital, select start-ups will benefit from Lenskart’s phenomenal market access via 700+ retail stores and online channels across … Continue reading “Lenskart launches Lenskart Vision Fund”

Instagram focused commerce startup WINDO raises $ 500,000 in seed round

Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Instagram focused commerce startup WINDO raises $ 500,000 in seed round

·       Round led by Unicorn India Ventures ·       Round saw participation from prominent angels such as Meena Ganesh, CEO of Portea, Aravind Sanka, CEO of Rapido, Srinivas Anumolu of GrowthStory and Vivek Bhargava, well known digital media expert and co-founder, ProfitWheel ·       Funds to be primarily used for product development and to enhance the customer experience with an aim to achieve product market fit and explore other markets outside India ·       WINDO an app for Instagram-focused businesses lets anyone easily manage their online business … Continue reading “Instagram focused commerce startup WINDO raises $ 500,000 in seed round”

FypMoney raises $ 2 Million seed funding from Angel Investors

Posted on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on FypMoney raises $ 2 Million seed funding from Angel Investors

FypMoney App, a new fintech platform, has recently raised the $ 2 Million in seed funding from Angel Investors. The angels investors – Liberatha Kallat, Mukesh Yadav and Dinesh Nagpal are all upbeat about the Fyp project that is lead by Kapil Banwari, the former finance manager at the ITC Ltd. Pockket Payment Technologies Pvt. Ltd. that aims at promoting the usage of Digital Money transactions for Teenagers, is set to launch its exclusive Fyp Money App for teenagers in … Continue reading “FypMoney raises $ 2 Million seed funding from Angel Investors”

Stride Ventures’ disbursals cross INR 200 crores in 2021

Posted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on Stride Ventures’ disbursals cross INR 200 crores in 2021

●        Moving Towards Fund II after Over Subscription of Fund 1 earlier this year ●        Invests upto INR 110 crores in Spinny, Bizongo and Infra.Market    Stride Ventures, one of India’s leading venture debt funds, has disbursed over INR 200 crores across 10 deals that were sanctioned in 2021. The firm has also partnered with leading banks to provide an augmented financing facility of up to INR 100 crores to its portfolio companies as it continues to build innovative alternate financing solutions within venture debt. Traditional … Continue reading “Stride Ventures’ disbursals cross INR 200 crores in 2021”

DEVX VENTURE FUND INVESTS IN INTENTS MOBI

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on DEVX VENTURE FUND INVESTS IN INTENTS MOBI

Ø  Raises 600K USD in seed round Ø  Funds will be used for products development Ø  Also to increase insights & geocodes by 5X Ø  Recent changes in national GIS policy by Government came as a huge boost DevX Venture Fund, the investment arm of Dev Accelerator & co-working announced that it has invested in Gurgaon based geospatial intelligence startup, Intents Mobi.  The startup has raised 600K USD in its seed round. The round, led by Auxano Entrepreneur Trust, also saw participation from other VC firms such … Continue reading “DEVX VENTURE FUND INVESTS IN INTENTS MOBI”

CHRYSCAPITAL INVESTS ~$50 MN IN WOW SKIN SCIENCE FOR A SIGNIFICANT MINORITY STAKE

Posted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021Categories Funding News   Leave a comment on CHRYSCAPITAL INVESTS ~$50 MN IN WOW SKIN SCIENCE FOR A SIGNIFICANT MINORITY STAKE

WOW Skin Science India Limited (“WOW” or “the Company”), a leading new-age personal care brand in India is pleased to announce that ChrysCapital, a leading India-focused private equity firm has agreed to invest ~$50 million in the Company for a significant minority stake. The transaction is a combination of a primary raise by the Company for growth initiatives, and a secondary sale by existing shareholders. Founded in 2014 by brothers Manish and Karan Chowdhary, WOW Skin Science is one of … Continue reading “CHRYSCAPITAL INVESTS ~$50 MN IN WOW SKIN SCIENCE FOR A SIGNIFICANT MINORITY STAKE”