January 22nd, 2016After getting funded by leading industrialists, Anand Mahindra and Nadir Godrej, online citizen engagement platform LocalCircles said Dalmia Group Managing Director Puneet Dalmia has become an investor in the company.
LocalCircles, which enables citizens to connect with national and local governance, will use the funds to expand...
January 22nd, 2016New 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...
January 21st, 2016Top 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...
January 19th, 2016CashKaro.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...
January 13th, 2016Mumbai: 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...
January 12th, 2016NEW 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...
January 8th, 2016India'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...
January 6th, 2016Tracxn 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...
January 4th, 2016American 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...
January 4th, 2016New 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...
December 26th, 2015Making 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...