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22Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Hindi Social Networking web portal “ShabdaNagari has raised $200000 Dollars in Angel Funding”

New Delhi, Jan 22: Hindi social networking portal, ShabdaNagari, today said it has raised $2,00,000 funding from Kanpur angel fund and clutch of other investors. The portal was launched in January 2015, by IIT Mumbai alumni Amitesh Mishra along with Kaplnesh Gupta and Nikhil Tiwari. The funding will be use in its future expansion plans. The Website has more than 20 thousand registered users, 150 thousand unique visits, 6 lakh page visits and over 100 articles being published on the site everyday with 25 per cent repeat traffic, the company said in a statement. Kalpnesh Gupta, Co-founder, ShabdaNagari said “In the online space today, Hindi doesn’t feature in even top 10 languages despite being one of most popular languages. We have a goal of bridging this digital divide. The angel inve...

Ratan Tata Invests in Baby Care Platform FirstCry.com

21Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Ratan Tata Invests in Baby Care Platform FirstCry.com

Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in baby care eCommerce platform FirstCry, continuing the slew of investments he has made in various startups globally. The Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons and Senior Advisor to IDG Ventures India, has invested an undisclosed amount in his personal capacity into Brainbees Solutions, which owns the FirstCry.com brand, the company said in a statement. ALSO READ: Ratan Tata invests in India’s Largest Cashback & Coupons Site CashKaro.com FirstCry is omni-channel player with presence across desktop, mobile and offline routes offering baby and maternity products in India. It started operations in 2010 and has over 2 million customers. It has over 150 FirstCry branded franchise offline stores across 100 cities in the...

Ratan Tata invests in India’s Largest Cashback & Coupons Site CashKaro.com

19Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Ratan Tata invests in India’s Largest Cashback & Coupons Site CashKaro.com

CashKaro.com, India’s largest Cashback & Coupons Site has raised an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons. Tata has made the investment in his personal capacity. The funding comes just two months after the Gurgaon-based startup raised Rs 25 crores in its Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital, one of India’s leading venture capital firms. CashKaro works on an affiliate model and was founded by entrepreneur couple Swati & Rohan Bhargava in mid-2013. CashKaro had earlier raised USD 750,000 in the year 2013 in angel funding from a group of investors based in London who belong to companies like Paypal, Investec, Goldman Sachs etc. Speaking on the investment, Swati & Rohan Bhargava, Co-founders, CashKaro.com said, “The funding from Mr. Ratan Tata m...

CarTrade.com raises Rs950 crore investment

13Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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CarTrade.com raises Rs950 crore investment

Mumbai: Cartrade.com, an online auto classifieds company also known as MXC solutions Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs.950 crore funding led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek and March Capital, with participation from existing investor Warburg Pincus. The company had raised $30 million in 2014 from a group of investors that included Tiger Global, Warburg and Canaan Partners. The company was founded in 2009 by Vinay Sanghi. Earlier it had raised $30 million from Tiger Global, Warburg and Canaan Partners. The funding will use to expand its offerings for users and dealers. The company will be looking at a few more acquisitions to strengthen its position in the market. The company operated only on the space of used cars until in November 2015 it acquired Carwale to enter into the new cars s...

12Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Hike raises undisclosed funding from founders Of Quora, WordPress & other Silicon Valley veterans

NEW DELHI: Indian messenger app, Hike, has raised undisclosed funding from a number of tech veterans, including Quora founder, Dropbox's Vice President Engineering Aditya Agarwal, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Ruchi Sanghvi, VP Dropbox. "It's great to have the world's top brains in tech share Hike's vision; and not just entrust us with their investment, but more importantly, also advise us on our product and strategy. Each of the them brings with him/her a core area of expertise, which we at Hike find immensely useful as we aggressively grow in India," Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger, said in a statement. "India is close to our hearts and we understand the challenges faced by the billion plus people of India. It's quite clear that messaging is playing a key...

China’s Ctrip invested $180 million in MakeMyTrip

8Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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China’s Ctrip invested $180 million in MakeMyTrip

India's leading online travel company, MakeMyTrip Limited (NASDAQ: MMYT), announced an agreement under which Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP), a leading travel service provider of accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management in China, has agreed to make an investment in MakeMyTrip. Upon completion of the transaction, Ctrip will invest US$180 million in MakeMyTrip through convertible bonds. In addition, MakeMyTrip has granted permission to the chinese company to acquire MakeMyTrip shares in the open market, so that combined with shares convertible under the convertible bonds. Ctrip may beneficially own up to 26.6% of MakeMyTrip's outstanding shares. Also it will acquire the rights to appoint a director to the MakeMyTrip board of director...

6Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Tracxn a Data Analytics Based Startup Secures Funding From Ratan Tata

Tracxn a data analytics based startup has secured funding from Ratan Tata. The amount has not been disclosed. Started in May 2013, by Goyal and Neha Singh, Tracxn has increased its customer base and team. As per the recent report, Tacxn connected 9295 startups to the investors. Tracxn provides information on start-ups to over 6,000 clients across India, the US, the Middle East, South-East Asia and Europe, and claims to sign up at least one new client every day. “We belong to a generation whose formative years were spent observing Mr Tata’s way of building companies. So, when we saw he was investing in start-ups, we reached out to him,” said Goyal. “There are about 1 lakh funded companies. But there is a universe of about 1 million companies who are unfunded. We organize...

GM invest $500 Million in Lyft To Create a Network Of On-Demand Self-Driving Cars

4Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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GM invest $500 Million in Lyft To Create a Network Of On-Demand Self-Driving Cars

American Multinational corporation, Automaker General Motors or popularly known as GM has decided to invest a sum of $500 million in Lyft Inc. a ride-sharing service provider alliancing with it to create a network of On-demand Self-Driving cars. Lyft is one of the biggest ride-hailing companies which is fastest growing rideshare company in US and is available in more than 190 cities which, along with GM has announced the joint venture on Monday that involved an investment of $500 by GM. The invested $500M in the company is the part of a round of a $1 billion round of fund-raising. (more…)

Ratan Tata invests in pet care portal DogSpot.in

4Jan By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Ratan Tata invests in pet care portal DogSpot.in

New Delhi, Jan 4 (PTI) Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in pet care portal DogSpot.in, continuing the slew of investments he has made in various startups globally. However, the value of the investment was not disclosed. "Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in DogSpot.in. Ronnie Screwala also invested in this round along with a few new and existing investors," DogSpot.in co-founder and CEO Rana Atheya said. The other investors in this round include Ashok Mittal, Rishi Parti, Dheeraj Jain and Abhijeet Pai. "The investment by Mr Tata is an endorsement of the long-held belief by us and our investors that the Indian pet care sector is going through a phase of huge growth and transformation. DogSpot.in is poised to become an agent of this transformation," he said. Prev...

Indian Startups get $8.4 bn funding in 2015; Nearly 1k deals inked

26Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Indian Startups get $8.4 bn funding in 2015; Nearly 1k deals inked

Making it a year of startups, Indian and foreign investors have pumped in a whopping USD 8.4 billion in new Indian startup ventures, including e-commerce platforms in 2015 through close to 1,000 deals, even as questions have begun to be asked about their hefty valuations. Those opening the purse for Indian start-up s included industry titans like Ratan Tata and N R Narayana Murthy as also marquee global investors like Alibaba and Softbank. According to data compiled by domestic technology and startup blog, as many as 936 deals worth over USD 8.4 billion have been inked this year -- up from 304 deals worth USD 5 billion that took place in 2014. The industry is looking at a promising 2016, though experts and even the investors anticipate correction on the valuation side. The sectors...

22Dec By NitishNo Comments

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First seed funding from HT Media, NBM – Invests in Planet GoGo

Planet GoGo Pvt. Ltd, which operates news aggregation website Planet Gogo, has raised an undisclosed amount in a seed round from HT Media Ltd through its subsidiary HT Digital Media Holdings Ltd and US-based investment firm North Base Media (NBM). The fund will be used in growing its user base, Damandeep Singh Soni, co-founder of Planet GoGo, said on Friday. The three-month-old company aggregates news and entertainment content from over 60 partner publishing sites including HT Media and displays them on the lock screen of mobile phones. “With the ever-increasing number of smartphone users, GoGo focuses to revolutionize content consumption for mobile users without having them to spend for it. A large part of the population today rely on apps for everyday content needs and GoGo provides...

22Dec By NitishNo Comments

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PepperTap Acquires Jiffstore, Also Raises Series B funding

Peppertap, Gurgaon based hyperlocal service startup has taken over Bangalore based hyperlocal grocery delivery startup, Jiffstore for an undisclosed amount. Jiffstore’s team will join PepperTap’s Gurgaon and Bengaluru offices. Peppertap aims to use synergies with Jiffstore to build an excellent customer experience. PepperTap also closed its Series B round of funding; with an additional $4 millon from Innoven Capital, in addition to the $36 million raised recently from SnapDeal, Sequoia India, SAIF Partners, Ru-Net, Beenext & JAFCO Asia. Total fund raise in PepperTap now stands at around $51.2 million. PepperTap earns more than 90% of its revenue from the commissions it earns from shops. The rest comes from the delivery cost. It charges consumers for orders below a minimum deliver...