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Mumbai Based Car Rental Startup Justride Raises 20 Crore Funding From Y Combinator

Mumbai Based Car rental startup JustRide raises 20 Crore (about $3 million) funding from global investors, including Y-Combinator partners. Justride will use funding for expanding the company’s car-sharing platform JustConnect and developing Yabber, an IoT device that works on connected car technology and data analytics to analyze the driving skills of the customers. “A vast majority […]

Google Will Open a New Cloud Region in Mumbai

Google will open a new Cloud Region in Mumbai that will help the tech giant offer its cloud platform services to developers and enterprise customers in India. Expected to be live in 2017, the local region in India will help make Google cloud platform services even faster for Indian customers, company said in a statement. […]

Mumbai Based OrderZapp Goes Eco-Friendly; Starts Electric Bikes Delivery

OrderZapp, a recently launched app which offers traditional snacks across Mumbai is taking multiple initiatives to support environmental causes and concerns. The company will initiate its delivering via electric bikes across Mumbai. The idea behind using electric bikes is not limited to support only the environment, but it also helps the start-up manage its operational […]

DriversKart Acquires Mumbai Based on-demand Driver Service Provider Driven

DriversKart, an innovative startup based out of Chennai, has acquired a Mumbai-headquartered on demand driver provider – Driven. Prior to the acquisition, DriversKart, had recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding from ah! Ventures and few other investors as a part of its Pre-Series-A round. Started in September 2015, DriversKart is already operational in 5 […]

Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin invested in Mumbai Based Startup

Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook has invested $13 million (around Rs. 90 crore) in Hopscotch, a Mumbai-based online retailer in a Series C round. Hopscotch is an E-commerce service, focusing on Kids Fashion Wear. Hopscotch is the same company that secured $11 Million funding last year in a Series B round led by Saverin’s Velos […]

Mumbai Based Startup Truce Raises $370,000 From Inmobi and Snapdeal Founders

Mumbai based Startup Truce, which runs a fresh farm vegetables and fruits supply chain venture has raised 2.5 Crores ($370,000) angel funding from the founders of Inmobi and Snapdeal. Truce co-founder Saurabh Jain confirmed that the firm has raised funding but did not talk on about the details. The founders who invested are Kunal Bahl […]

Giftxoxo Acquires Mumbai-Based Actizone

BENGALURU: Bangalore-based Giftxoxo a gifting company, has acquired Mumbai-based, Actizone, an online marketplace for extracurricular activities classes for kids for an undisclosed amount. “Actizone will help us cater to the large kids activities market in India. It’ll add to our existing portfolio of activities in different categories,” said Manoj Agarwal, cofounder of Giftxoxo, owned by […]

Urbanclap Has Acquired Mumbai Based After Sales Service Platform HandyHome

A mobile-based services marketplace, Urbanclap has acquired HandyHome, after sales service platform in an equity deal. HandyHome Mumbai-based startup allows users to book brand-authorized repairs and other services for electronic appliances online. HandyHome was founded in early 2015, had raised about half a million dollars from Bessemer Venture Partners and Kae Capital in June. Gurgaon-based UrbanClap provide […]

Parth Patel – An IITian behind birth of Carpooling idea in Mumbai

About Parth Patel and the reason behind this idea? Hi, I’m Parth Patel, co-founder of  Zupp – an intra-city carpooling mobile app for daily office commute. In 2011, after graduating from IIT Delhi, I joined EY in Mumbai. Since I was accustomed to a hassle-free campus life, the menace of daily commute in Mumbai caught […]

Mumbai based Baron Aviation launches air charter marketplace BookMyCharters

A Mumbai-based air charter service, Baron Aviation, launched BookMyCharters, an online platform for booking private jets. The platform’s launch comes after a year of a startup JetSetGo that aggregates jet flights, Helicopters, and Air Ambulance, launched operations in March 2014.  The platform has 12 private jet operators with a combined fleet of 40 aircraft, which can […]

Sab Kuch Aasaan Hai For People Living in Andheri Region of Mumbai

AASAAN, is a mobile-based chat platform, where the user sends in their enquiry about anything they may require in the form of a chat message. He then receives a response within 90 seconds about the possible delivery options, and the price quote of the service and product they desire. Once the user confirms the order, […]

Mumbai-based Doormint raises $3 million funding led by Helion Venture Partners

Doormint, a Mumbai-based startup, which provides home services, has raised $3 million in series A round of funding led by Helion Venture Partners and would be putting the capital to accelerate its growth in Mumbai and venturing into newer markets of Delhi, Gurgaon, and Bengaluru while getting talent on board.