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Arkam Ventures- Indian Founders led Investment fund raises $42 Million
BUSINESS

Arkam Ventures- Indian Founders led Investment fund raises $42 Million

New Delhi, 9th June, 2020: Arkam Ventures, a VC fund led by Indian entrepreneurs raises around $42 Million (325 crores) in its first funding round. Arkam Ventures previously known as Unitary Helion looking to support founders with bold and unconstrained ideas that reshape the largest markets in India and positively impact the lives of hundreds of millions of Indians.   "We announced our first close with INR 325 CR in committed capital en route to our target of INR 700 CR for the fund. We have already made two investments with three more to be announced shortly", the company said in a blog post. Indian entrepreneurs like Vijay Shekhar, Binny Bansal, Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Rajesh Magow, Mekin Maheshwari and Kumar Sudarshan, among many others, are supporting this fund. The Arkam ...
Agri Startup Gobasco Raises Funds From Matrix Partners
FUNDING

Agri Startup Gobasco Raises Funds From Matrix Partners

Agriculture supply chain tech startup Gobasco has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Matrix Partners India. Co-founded by Vedant and Abhishek in early 2017, the startup aims to solve complex supply chain optimisation problems, by combining large scale data integration with proprietary technologies. The details about the funding round were not disclosed but Gobasco will be using the funds for scaling up and building a full stack commerce platform that yields higher operational efficiency. "The goal is to use artificial intelligence and big data to optimise the agri-supply-chain across India," said Abhishek Sharma, cofounder of Gobasco.  The startup is based in Lucknow and NCR and has till now served 5,000 farmers till date. Also Read Bitcoin Shoots off the Roof, ...