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12May By AdityaNo Comments

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LegalRaasta Raises INR 32 Crore Series A Funding From Impanix Capital

The Delhi-based startup, LegalRaasta, which provides finance and taxation services to SMEs, raises approximately $5 million in Series A funding from Impanix Capital. LegalRaasta intends to use these funds in building GST compliance software for SMEs, CAs and enterprises. They will offer both - a standalone GST Software and an API interface, to connect ERP (such as SAP, Oracle and Tally) with GST systems. LegalRaasta has already applied as a GSP (GST Suvidha Provider) with the government. LegalRaasta intends to serve its existing SME clients and over 80 lakh+ potential SMEs to be covered under the GST regime. Through its GST software solution, LegalRaasta intends to simplify GST filing through features such as reconciliation, excel upload, app-based GST filing, etc. LegalRaasta alread...

12May By reutersNo Comments

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SoftBank Investing $5 Billion in China Ride Hailing Firm Didi Chuxing

SoftBank Group Corp said it has agreed to invest $5 billion in China's Didi Chuxing, confirming it led a recent fund-raising round by the ride-hailing firm that sources said valued Didi at more than $50 billion. Didi said last month it raised more than $5.5 billion to expand its business overseas and develop artificial intelligence technology. Sources had said investors included SoftBank. A SoftBank spokesman said on Friday the investment was related to Didi's last fund-raising round. SoftBank is trying to transform itself into the "Berkshire Hathaway of the tech industry" with the launch soon of a $100 billion technology fund as telecoms services markets mature. It has already announced plans to invest at least $25 billion over the next five years in the fund, which would be o...

Vidooly Raises $1.4 Million From GVFL, Times Internet

10May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Vidooly Raises $1.4 Million From GVFL, Times Internet

Video intelligence startup Vidooly has raised USD 1.4 million (Rs 8.9 crore) in funding from GVFL and Times Internet. Vidooly will utilise the series A funds towards product engineering, marketing, and enhancing sales and distribution channels, it said in a statement. Previously, the company has raised about USD 1 million. "Video consumption over the last couple of years has exploded given faster and affordable internet access and also the rising demand for devices and high quality online content," Vidooly co-founder Nishant Radia said. The aim is to be a dominant player in this space globally, he added. "We plan to utilise the funds raised to expand in attractive markets such as the US, Europe and Asia and also strengthen the team at Vidooly," he said. Vidooly was also a par...

FinTech Startup EarlySalary Raises USD 4 Million From IDG Ventures India & Others

10May By AdityaNo Comments

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FinTech Startup EarlySalary Raises USD 4 Million From IDG Ventures India & Others

EarlySalary India’s first FinTech startup to offer Salary Advances and Instant Cash Loans has announced its Series A funding of $4 Million from IDG Ventures India (IDGVI) and Dewan Housing Finance Corp Ltd (DHFL). The company focuses on helping young working professionals get Instant Loans and Salary Advances in minutes and is fast becoming the first line of credit to young working Indians. More than 80% of its customer base is in their first career roles and most of them are new to credit and are first time borrowers. Over the past year, EarlySalary developed its Underwriting System which is a self-learning Algo Based Decisioning System. The System in real time reviews Social Media and Credit Bureau data of customers and helps approve the loan for them. Targeted at young working pro...

Cyber Security Startup Sequretek Raises $2 Million

9May By AdityaNo Comments

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Cyber Security Startup Sequretek Raises $2 Million

Cyber security start-up Sequretek today said it has raised funding from GVFL and Unicorn India Ventures. While the company did not disclose the size of the funding, sources said Sequretek has raised under USD 2 million in fresh funding in the series A. The Mumbai-based company plans to use the funds for further building on intelligence within their current product offerings and foray into new markets within India and outside, Sequretek said in a statement. Launched in 2013 by Anand Naik, Sequretek offers a suite of products and services to enterprises for securing information. Its clients include HDFC Bank, IDBI Federal, HDFC Limited and NCDEX as well as companies in sectors like retail, pharma and IT-ITeS. The founders had pumped in about Rs 4.5 crore in 2013 and raised USD...

Paytm Looking To Invest 193 Crore in Mumbai Based Insider.in

8May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Paytm Looking To Invest 193 Crore in Mumbai Based Insider.in

Alibaba-backed Paytm is in discussions with Insider.in to pick up stake in the Mumbai based events platform for about Rs 193 crore. According to sources, Paytm could pump in as much as USD 30 million to pick up majority stake in Insider.in. They added that the deal could be announced in the next few weeks. Mails sent to Paytm and Insider.in did not elicit any response. Insider.in is a leading ticketing platform for events and properties, which includes the likes of Bacardi NH7 Weekender and TV series The Dewarists. If the deal fructifies, the digital payments and commerce platform will be able to strengthen its presence in the online ticketing business. The sources said Paytm has scaled up its operations in the movie ticketing business and now, the Noida-based firm is lookin...

3May By RishabhNo Comments

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Ola Raises Rs 670 Crore Fresh Funding From Ratan Tata Backed Venture

SoftBank-backed Ola has raised Rs 670 crore (USD 104.4 million) in fresh funding from investors including UC-RNT Fund, a venture between the University of California and Ratan Tata. While UC-RNT Fund has pumped in Rs 267.99 crore, another Rs 402 crore has been infused by FO Mauritius I Ltd, according to regulatory filing by ANI Technologies -- which runs Ola. However, the valuation of the company benchmarked against the fresh round of funding could not be ascertained. The said shares were allotted to the investors on March 31, 2017. An email sent to the company remained unanswered. The Bengaluru-based firm, which is locked in an intense battle with US-based Uber for market leadership, had raised about USD 250 million from SoftBank in November, albeit at a lower valuation of USD...

MakeMyTrip to Raise $330 million From Ctrip and Naspers

3May By AdityaNo Comments

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MakeMyTrip to Raise $330 million From Ctrip and Naspers

Online travel firm MakeMyTrip today said it will raise $330 million (over Rs 2,115 crore) through share sale to investors as well as to Ctrip and Naspers’ arm MIH Internet, to fund expansion. The company has entered into share purchase agreements with undisclosed investors for placement of its ordinary shares, which is expected to generate gross proceeds of $165 million. The company will issue 4,583,334 ordinary shares in aggregate to investors at $36 per scrip. Moreover, it has also signed share purchase agreements with Nasdaq-listed Ctrip.com International Ltd and MIH Internet SEA Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Naspers Ltd for issuance of the company’s ordinary shares and Class B convertible ordinary shares respectively. Under the agreement, MakeMyTrip will issue 9,16,666 ordinary ...

3May By AdityaNo Comments

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Zippserv Raises Rs 2.5 Crore as Seed Funding

Real estate risk assessment firm Zippserv today said it has raised Rs 2.5 crore as seed funding for expansion. The Bengaluru-based firm announced that it has closed seed fund round of Rs 2.5 crore from undisclosed sources. It will utilise funds for expansion beginning with Mumbai and Pune in the coming months, a company statement said. Zippserv helps home buyers in verifying the veracity of ownership papers, validating legal wrangles, encroachment related issues, adherence to bye-laws and quality of construction. "Zippserv today provides a one stop shop to alleviate any concern related to property purchase be it both old and new," the statement said. ZippServ co-founder Debashish Hota said the funding will help it to scale operations rapidly to other cities as well as add se...

25Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Digital Community For Women POPxo Raises 20 Crore Funding

POPxo, a digital community for women, has raised Rs 20 crore (USD 3.1 million) in fresh funding, led by IDG Ventures India and Kalaari Capital. The investment round also saw participation from GREE Ventures (Japan), Summit Media (Philippines), Atul Goel and Gurpreet Singh, POPxo said in a statement today. POPxo had previously raised over Rs 15 crore in funding through multiple rounds from investors including IDG Ventures India, Kalaari Capital, Google executive Rajan Anandan, Caratlane executive Mithun Sancheti and others. "Our platform allows women to connect with others. We focus on leveraging our large user base to generate transactions beginning with affiliate e-commerce, across categories," POPxo founder and CEO Priyanka Gill said. The platform attracts over nine million users...

Ronnie Screwvala Launches Rs 100 Crore Online Education Scholarship Fund

24Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Ronnie Screwvala Launches Rs 100 Crore Online Education Scholarship Fund

Online education start-up co-founder Ronnie Screwvala has launched a Rs 100 crore education scholarship fund to provide loans to those looking at doing online courses to improve their skill sets. The fund will give scholarships ranging from Rs 25,000 and up to Rs 2 lakh. "We need 125 million young Indians in post-graduation studies and currently not more than 30 million today are engaged in higher studies as a majority of them start working early in their career and so online learning or education is the real answer," Screwvala said in a statement here today. He said the scholarship fund is aimed at skilling motivated individuals in relevant areas and equip them with industry-relevant knowledge. The fund is been launched with an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore and Screwvala aims...

21Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Quora Raises $85 Million Funding For Ad Business

Quora has raised a fresh round of $85 million dollars funding. The funding will use to promote more Q&A activities for People and generate ads through it. About a year ago Quora began introducing advertising as a way of making money. The round values the company at roughly $1.8 billion, according to a company spokesperson (who said that the valuation had roughly doubled from its previous valuation of $900 million). Quora launched privately in 2009 but and quickly drew buzz in the tech community in part because it was started by two well-respected early Facebook employees. The website opened to the public in 2010, serving as something of a high-end message board where people can ask questions and get solid answers. The site currently serves 190 million unique visitors a mont...