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Mobile Advertising Network Yeahmobi Raises About $100 Million in Funding for Expansion

23Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Mobile Advertising Network Yeahmobi Raises About $100 Million in Funding for Expansion

Mobile performance marketing network Yeahmobi has just raised RMB 639 million (about $100 million), to bolster its global expansion. The Xi'an, China-based company is now valued at about RMB 5 billion (about $720 million). Investors in the private placement include Beijing Bohai Tongxin Private Equity Fund (RMB 120 million), Nanjing Huawen Hongsheng Startup Investment Fund (RMB 100 million), Shenzhen Qianhai Bochuang Private Equity Fund (RMB 60 million), and 11 others. The funding is said to be used as working capital needed in mobile advertising business in subsidiary companies and branches, as well as acting as reserve fund for the company's M&A efforts of consolidating global digital media assets. As part of Yeahmobi's global aspiration, Yeahmobi plans to leverage the favorable ca...

Member of World Bank Group Invested in India’s Online Education Startup BYJU’s

21Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Member of World Bank Group Invested in India’s Online Education Startup BYJU’s

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today said it has invested $15 million in online education startup BYJU's. This partnership will enable BYJU's to further their plans to make quality education accessible for students across the nation as well as in international markets, International Finance Corporation (IFC) said in a statement. In September, BYJU's had raised USD 50 million from a clutch of investors, led by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and Sequoia Capital. BYJU's has also raised USD 9 million from Aarin Capital in 2013, followed by Series B funding of USD 25 million from Sequoia Capital last year and a USD 75 million fund raise from Sequoia Capital and Sofina earlier this year. "The investment from IFC recognises our commitment to create world-class learning programs th...

Amazon Invests 2010 Crore into Amazon India, Total Investment 7000 Crore in Past 12 Months

20Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Amazon Invests 2010 Crore into Amazon India, Total Investment 7000 Crore in Past 12 Months

It seems Jeff Bezos led American e-tailer Amazon launched full fledged e-commerce war against India's leading e-commerce firm Flipkart. According to latest information Amaon has invested Rs 2,010 crore into Amazon.in. The total investments in Amazon Seller Services to Rs 7,000 crore in the past 12 months, according to regulatory filings. The latest investment strategy from Amazon, making the points raised by Flipkart Founder Sachin Bansal and cab aggregator Ola Founder Bhavish Aggarwal, seeking government intervention and asking the country to protect Indian-origin startups to counter capital dumping by foreign rivals. Last week, Amazon rolled out Prime Video and prime service for which it is in discussions with content players and offers its users a host of features like quicker del...

20Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Jewellery Marketplace VivoCarat.com Raises $50,000 Seed Funding

Online jewellery marketplace, has raised USD 50,000 in seed funding from a group of individual investors. The funds will be used for product development, team building and marketing, it said in a statement. Founded in early 2016 by Ritesh Oza and Abhijith Shetty, VivoCarat is an online portal of diversified jewellery brands that showcases striking and spectacular jewellery products. VivoCarat has successfully managed to join hands with more than 30 reputed brands across Mumbai & other cities like Jaipur, Surat, Kolkata and New Delhi." said Ritesh Oza, CEO, VivoCarat.com. We add a minimum of 100-150 new designs on the site every month and will continue to bring more varieties for customers across the country.

19Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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NoBroker.com Raises Rs 50 Crore Funding in Series B, Total Received Funding is Now 122 Crores

NoBroker.com has raised USD 7 million (about Rs 50 crore) as part of its series B funding. This is the extension of the USD 10 million Series B round announced few months back this year, taking cumulative amount to USD 17 million. This extension round is led by Korean investor KTB Network and saw participation from existing investors - SAIF Partners, BEENEXT and Digital Garage, it said in a statement adding that the total funding raised till date by NoBroker.com amounts to USD 20 million. "Our aim is to use these funds to expand rapidly and move towards becoming the number one online real estate player in India in terms of closed transactions in next 24 months," NoBroker.com CTO and co-founder Akhil Gupta said. The consumer-to-consumer platform provides a select number of owner contac...

15Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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KKR-Backed Emerald Media, Premji Invest Lead $35 Million Funding Round in Amagi Media Labs

Emerald Media, the Pan-Asia company backed by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, today announced that it has acquired a significant minority stake in Amagi Media Labs (‘Amagi’), the leader in targeted TV advertising and cloud-based TV broadcast infrastructure. Premji Invest, the investment arm of Azim Premji, (an existing shareholder) is also participating in this combination of primary and secondary US$35 million Series D round. Mayfield India and Nadathur Holdings will continue to remain invested in the Company. Headquartered in Bengaluru with offices in New York City, London, and Hong Kong, Amagi is a next-generation media technology company providing cloud-based managed broadcast services and targeted advertising platforms to c...

India’s Leading IT Giant Infosys Invested in Drone Making Startup Ideaforge

15Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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India’s Leading IT Giant Infosys Invested in Drone Making Startup Ideaforge

Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today announced that it has made an investment from its Innovation Fund in Mumbai based ideaForge, an Indian startup focused on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions. The total amount invested was 70 crores with participation from other investors as well. "We are very excited to have Infosys as an investor and a partner for exploring UAV services and solutions for global customers. This partnership will play an important role in our industrial expansion to address a wide variety of data acquisition and analysis needs," said Ankit Mehta, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at ideaForge. ideaForge has built a world-class UAV solution featuring fully autonomous operation, cutting edge fail...

13Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Delhi Based Startup Fresh Food Concepts Secures $2 Million in Pre-series A Funding

North India's leading startup for cold-pressed juices, Fresh Food Concepts has secured $2 million in a pre-series A round led by Angel investors Siddhartha Gupta and Ashvin Chadha. This announcement comes as the Delhi-NCR-based startup moves its flagship product Juice Up into the next phase of expansion. Available in over 250 locations across Delhi NCR, Juice Up offers a range of 100% raw and fresh cold pressed juices. Speaking about recent developments, Riju Gupta, Founder CEO, Fresh Food Concepts said, "We are on target to hit 75,000 bottles per month so the timing of this investment is very strategic. Delhi NCR has 50 million people, making it bigger than many countries in the world. This gives us a great opportunity to grow 20X in this region alone." The current round of funding will ...

Alok Mittal Led Indifi Raises $10m From Omidyar, Existing Investors

13Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Alok Mittal Led Indifi Raises $10m From Omidyar, Existing Investors

Indifi Technologies, an enabler of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) financing, has raised USD 10 million in a Series B investment round led by philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network, established by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar. Existing investors Accel Partners and Elevar Equity also participated in the round. Indifi Technologies, while maintaining its focus on MSME businesses, intends to direct the investments towards furthering its products and technology, it said in a statement today. "Through our current roadmap, we have validated our vertical approach to financing and are now present across travel, e-commerce, retail, and hotel segments. The capital raised in this series will be targeted toward improving our offerings in these verticals," said Alok Mitt...

Bill Gates Starts $1 Billion “Breakthrough Energy Ventures Fund” on Climate Change

13Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Bill Gates Starts $1 Billion “Breakthrough Energy Ventures Fund” on Climate Change

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a group of high-profile executives are investing USD 1 billion in a fund to spur clean energy technology and address global climate change a year after the Paris climate agreement. Gates launched the Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund on Monday along with billionaire entrepreneurs such as Facebook Inc head Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Chairman Jack Ma and Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos. The fund seeks to increase financing of emerging energy research and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to help meet goals set in Paris, according to a statement by the investor group known as the Breakthrough Energy Coalition. It marked the first major investment of the coalition formed in December 2015 to spur research, development and deployment of c...

8Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Shared Car Revv Raises $9 Million Funding From Edelweiss Private Equity, Others

World's first self-drive car rental platform Revv has raised USD 9 million in equity and debt from Edelweiss Private Equity and others. The series A equity funding led by Edelweiss Private Equity and debt funding from financing and leasing partners like Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services and LeasePlan India, it said in a statement. The fresh capital will be used towards expanding into new cities, launching new products, and building proprietary technology to enhance customer experience, it added. The startup already counts the likes of Gautam Kumra (recently elected India MD of McKinsey & Company), Rajat Dhawan (Mentor to McKinsey's automotive practice) and Ananth Narayanan (Myntra CEO) as its angel investors. sms финанс займзайм под залог птс барнаулонлайн займ 24...

5Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Indore Based Fitness App Froyofit Raises Pre-Series A Funding From Indian Actress

Indore-based fitness discovery platform, Froyofit has raised an undisclosed amount of Pre-series A funding in a round led by Dr. Pooja Gandhi, who is an Indian actress and producer and works mainly in Kannada and Tamil cinema and has two Filmfare awards to her name. Pooja will also be the face of Froyofit in South Indian market. Froyofit is a fitness app available on Android and iOSplatforms and caters mainly to the tier-2 market of fitness enthusiasts. "This capital will give us additional resources to expand strategically into new markets, innovate rapidly, and deliver on our vision to make fitness discovery easy and accessible to everyone," said Piyush Jain, Founder of Froyofit. "The response to the concept of fitness discovery is really overwhelming in tier-2 markets and we consi...