US-based online retailer eBay is reportedly in talks with ShopClues to acquire the Gurugram-based e-commerce company After announcing its plan to relaunch its India business. Last year, eBay sold its India operations to Flipkart for $200 million, who recently said it will stop using the eBay.in platform. Meanwhile, eBay and ShopClues have both declined to […]
The most convenient payment option Cash-on-delivery (Cod) provided by several online retailers such as Flipkart and Amazon may be a regulatory grey area as per the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) response to a Right to Information (RTI) query. The RBI has said that e-commerce platforms are “not authorised” to collect money from customers on […]
Online digital general insurance company Digital Insurance has reportedly raised an amount of Rs 315 crore in a second funding round. This particular round was led by Fairfax Holdings. Through this funding round, the company aims to expand its footprint across the country even to the smaller regions. A part of the funds will also […]
One of the most Popular over-the-top (OTT) platforms, The Viral Fever (TVF) has raised $6 million (nearly 41 crores) in a fresh funding round from the investor Tiger Global. TVF raised the fresh capital at an estimated post-money valuation of around $40 million. The company had raised $10 million from Tiger Global at a valuation […]
Investment firm Tiger Global has reportedly taken over a stake worth $1 billion in SoftBank Group and this deal has taken up the shares of the latter as much as 6.8 per cent. Tiger Global stated to the investors in a letter that SoftBank’s stock price had not increased over the past five years even after […]
SoftBank’s managing partner Kabir Misra is reportedly in the advanced stages of launching a startup fund worth $200-250 million, which will focus on startups situated out of India, USA and Southeast Asia. According to the anonymous statements, Misra will make early-stage to mid-stage investments in US, India and Southeast Asia. Softbank will be the anchor […]
Bengaluru-based investment firm Groww has reportedly secured an amount of $1.6 million in a pre-series A funding round. The latest funding round was led by Insignia Ventures Partners, Lightbridge Partners, Kairos. The funding round also witnessed the participation of existing investors such as Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori. The company plans to use these funds so raised to make […]
This week we witnessed a good number of funding activities. A few companies raised a considerable amount of funding from various investors and thus, we have come up with a summary of all the fundings that took place this week i.e. from 25th June 2018 to 30th June 2018. 1) PolicyBazaar.com ETechAces and […]
SigTuple, an AI-based healthcare startup has raised 19 million i.e approximately Rs. 130 crores in a Series B round led by IDG Ventures and Accel Partners. The investment round also saw participation from pi Ventures, Flipkart’s executive chairman Binny Bansal, Endiya Partners, Axilor Ventures. The Bengaluru-based company plans to use the funds in the expansion […]
India’s largest digital wallet company Paytm will now start offering life insurance cover of up to Rs 5 lakh to its offline partners and their staffs. One97 Communications, the parent company of Paytm, said that this effort will help in giving a push towards realizing India’s vision of the digital economy. Paytm will offer life […]
ETechAces and Consulting which operates PolicyBazaar.com has raised over USD 200 million (around Rs 1,360 crore) through a fresh round of investment led by Japans SoftBank. In a statement, the online insurance aggregator said, “it has clinched over USD 200 million in an investment round led by SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from existing investors, […]
U.S. based digital payment giant Visa is in the final stage of discussion to invest over $250 million in the Mumbai headquartered payments gateway company BillDesk. The investment is likely to value BillDesk at around $1.5-2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The investment will give the coveted unicorn status to the eight-year-old […]