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FreeCharge Founder Kunal Shah Rolls Out a New Venture Cred

Kunal Shah, the founder of digital payment company FreeCharge has rolled out his own new venture known as Cred which is a financial services platform targeting consumers with high creditworthiness. For the launch of this startup, the founder has already raised an amount of $25 million (about Rs 177 crore) in funding led by Sequoia Capital […]

Swiggy turns “Unicorn”, Raises $210 Mn from DST Global

Food Delivery Platform Swiggy has sealed its much awaited $210 million funding with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner’s’ DST Global thereby finally making entry into the prestigious “Unicorn” club. The company has informed that the investment round also saw participation from hedge fund Coatue and existing backer Meituan Dianping, with a total capital crossing $466 million […]

Snapchat Partners with Tyroo For Sales & Support in India

Photo Messaging Platform Snapchat has entered into a partnership with ad technology platform Tyroo, a move focused to drive its ad monetisation in India as informed by the company on Wednesday. Under the strategic agreement, Smile Group Company, Tyroo will manage sales and support for all Snapchat products in India. The company is also establishing a […]

Luxury Hotel Booking Platform For Business Class Raises $200000 Funding

Delhi based icanstay.com, an online luxury hotel booking platform for business travelers has raised a fresh round of funding of Rs 1.30 Cr from an angel investor Mr. Manoj Prasad, executive chairman at Singapore-based venture capital and management advisory firm MP Morgan Capital Partners Pte. Ltd. Earlier the online platform has raised Rs 2.24 Cr […]

Pando Raises Funding From Nexus Venture, Freshdesk Founder & others

Bengaluru based logistics company Pando has raised $2 Million seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners. Kashyap Deorah at Hypertrack, Girish Mathrubootham at Freshdesk, Nishant Rao at Sirion Labs (Ex-LinkedIn India MD), and P Balaji at Vodafone (Ex-Nokia, Sony Erickson India MD) also participated in this round. Digital enabled logistics platform Pando solves a key problem of convergence, […]

Goodera Raises 79 Crore Series B Funding

Goodera, the Menlo Park and Bangalore-based CSR and sustainability management platform have raised ₹79 Cr funding in a Series B round. The existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Omidyar Network are leading this round. Saif Partners also participated in this funding round. Phanindra Sama,and Sunil Chandiramani of Nykaa are the Angel investors who invested early in Goodera. Founded in […]

Know How This Startup Founder Beat His Depression in a Weird but Amazing Way

The success stories in the startup ecosystem have always been told in a single manner- how a bunch of co-founders meet, discuss a common, yet thriving issue and plan a service to eradicate that out of the system. Soon they get appreciated for their work, raise seed funding or a couple of series funding on […]

Bengaluru Based Goodera Raises $5.5 Million Funding From Nexus Venture, Omidyar

Goodera, a global CSR & Sustainability Management technology platform, co-headquartered in Bangalore and Menlo Park, today announced its Series A round of funding of $5.5mn from Nexus Venture Partners and Omidyar Network. Varsha Rao, previously Head of Global Operations at Airbnb also participated in this round along with other prominent angels. Goodera is a CSR […]

Biggest Venture Backed Companies Worth Nearly $500 Billion: Report

The total valuation of late-stage, venture-backed private companies in the UnitedStates and Europe has exploded from a few dozen startups worth acollective $40 billion in 2010 to hundreds of firms thattogether are now worth almost $500 billion, according to a report released Thursday. The numbers show the magnitude of the recent trend in which the […]