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Food-tech Startup Holachef Raises Rs 2 Crore Funding

Mumbai based diamond manufacturer and distributor Laxmi Diamond Pvt Ltd’s Ashok Kumar Gajera has invested Rs 2 crore in food technology startup Holachef a financial daily reported. Holachef is a food delivery service from its “innovative food combos”. The funding is raised at the same valuation as its $5 million Series B round which was […]

Food Delivery Giant Swiggy Raises $1 Billion from Naspers

India’s largest food delivery company Swiggy has reportedly raised an amount of $1 billion in a fresh funding round. The round was led by existing backer, South African media giant Naspers. Along with this, the new investors that participated in the round included China’s Tencent and hedge funds Hillhouse Capital and Wellington Management.  With this new round, the valuation of the […]

Brazil-based Technology Company Movile Secures $400 million

A Brazil based technology conglomerate known as Movile has just raised funds amounting to $400 million. This round was led by existing investors including Naspers and Innova Capital. The funds have basically been raised for its iFood subsidiary. The company was founded by chief executive officer Fabricio Bloisi which began as a digital content studio […]

Foodpanda Reaches 50 Indian Cities & Aims to Make it 100

Online food delivery player Foodpanda has reportedly expanded its delivery network to 30 more cities in India which has further increased its existence to 50 cities across the country. With this expansion, the company mentioned that its delivery network is now live in cities like Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Dehradun, Allahabad, Varanasi, Surat, […]

Zomato Claims to be the Leader of Food Delivery Space in India

India’s food delivery sector is growing a lot these days. Restaurant discovery and food delivery firm Zomato recently claimed to have hit the 21 million monthly order run rate in India. The company said that it saw its highest weekly order volume during the month of September touch 700,000 orders each day of the week. With this, […]

CapitalFloat Acquires Pune Based Fintech Firm in $30 Million

Digital lending firm Capital Float has acquired Pune-based fintech firm Walnut (Thumbworks Technologies) in a deal amounting to USD 30 million (about Rs 208.6 crore). Walnut offers a personal finance management mobile app that helps users to automatically track spends, bank and card balances, bill payments, and split expenses within a group. It has over […]

Alibaba to Merge China’s Food Delivery Units To Surpass Meituan

China’s largest conglomerate Alibaba Group is planning to bring together and merge its food delivery units. The units that are getting merged are food delivery platform Ele.me and food and lifestyle services firm Koubei. The purpose behind this move is to raise funds for the combined business and also to intensify the battle with Tencent-backed Meituan Dianping which […]