China’s biggest online payment platform Ant Financial Services Group which operates the Alipay mobile payment service, in its recent funding, has raised a huge amount of around $14 billion, with the aim to expand its platform across the globe and bring in latest technologies. Ant Financial which is controlled by Jack Ma is an Alibaba […]
Zodius capital, a tech-oriented investment firm has elevated its stake in Zivame, which is a lingerie retailer by purchasing shares of the early backers of the lingerie startup named Kalaari Capital and IDG Ventures that invested in Zivame in early 2012. According to the reports, the funding agency now controls almost 45% in Zivame. It […]
Online eyewear firm Lenskart has earmarked about USD 2-3 million to invest in companies that are either working on product or technologies that can help to provide affordable eye care solutions. As a part of the strategy, firm backed by Ratan Tata, Lenskart has invested about Rs. 3.3 crores in US-based ThinOptics. The intent of […]
Bombay Hemp Company Pvt Ltd. (BOHECO), raised Rs3.08 Crore capital from Ginni International Limited, a textile company based in Hong Kong and existing investor, Mukhtar Tejani of Gits Food. The company had previously allotted 308,063 shares worth Rs100 each. BOHECO previously raised 6.25 crore from a group of investors that included the notorious Ratan Tata, […]
Bluestone, the online jewelry commerce, received a funding of Rs8.2 crore from OBOR Capital and Rs3 crore from Kalaari Capital, according to the latest MCA filings. The company appears to have raise an additional funds of $6 million from existing investors as well. The filings also report that the company earned about Rs1 crore from […]
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 […]
The internet has gone crazy about Nirmalya Kumar’s latest blog post about how Cyrus Mistry was fired as Tata’s Chairman. Nirmalya Kumar, Former Group Executive Council member at Tata Sons has revealed a sequence of events on 24 October 2016, the day when Cyrus Mistry was relieved from his services. Nirmalya Kumar was hired by Cyrus to […]
Another Indian Unicorn saw $2 billion fund raising on Monday. Ola- India’s ride hailing company raises $2 billion from SoftBank Group Corp and Tencent Holdings Ltd, another high profile funding in this year after Flipkart which competes with Amazon. Although as per the Bloomberg’s report the amount is not fixed for now and can change in […]
Myntra co-founder Mukesh Bansal and former Flipkart executive Ankit Nagori’s health and fitness platform CureFit, has raised a fresh round of funding of $25 million from existing investors Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital, IDG Ventures and UC-RNT fund, a joint investment vehicle of the University of California and Ratan Tata’s RNT Associates. The new round expects to […]
SoftBank-backed cab-hailing firm Ola (ANI Technologies Ltd) has raised over Rs231 crore from Tekne Private Ventures through issue of preference shares.
Nexus Venture Partners, an early investor in Snapdeal, has come out in support of the e- commerce firm’s decision to pursue “Snapdeal 2.0” instead of accepting rival Flipkart’s $900-950 million acquisition offer. Nexus Venture Partners is the second investor to come out in support of Snapdeal’s decision, after Kenneth Glass (an early investor in Snapdeal). […]
Snapdeal will seek views of its shareholders, including Ratan Tata and PremjiInvest, on the proposed USD 900-950 million buyout deal by Flipkart, a source said. The deal is almost through but there are a few areas of concern and the Board wants to seek views and comments from shareholders on the deal, two people aware […]