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22Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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Adult Products Based Portal IMbesharam, Has Raised Series A Funding

An Adult products based portal IMbesharam, has raised Series A funding worth $4 million from US-based investors Pavel Vassiliev and Rafiq Hirani. The company was founded by Salim Rajan and Raj Armani in 2011 and claims to have 120 international brands (and 4,000 SKUs) across apparel, adult toys, jewelry, accessories, cosmetics and gift cards for both men and women. The company will launch a US store, 4 warehouses in India, hire employees in India and the US and launch a responsive website this year with the funding. It also plans to use $1 million for a marketing campaign, according to the report. IMBesharam explains why it chose the name on its website, “..We believe we all are Besharam, whether we like to accept it is another story… Because we want to educate people about sex, g...

Puneet Dalmia Invests in “Online Citizen Engagement Platform LocalCircles”

22Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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Puneet Dalmia Invests in “Online Citizen Engagement Platform LocalCircles”

After getting funded by leading industrialists, Anand Mahindra and Nadir Godrej, online citizen engagement platform LocalCircles said Dalmia Group Managing Director Puneet Dalmia has become an investor in the company. LocalCircles, which enables citizens to connect with national and local governance, will use the funds to expand its presence, strengthen technology and recruit more talent, LocalCircles Chief Strategy Officer K Yatish Rajawat said. He, however, declined to comment on details of the investment. "We have a user base of about one million users. We see this growing to about 30 million in the next 3-5 years. We will use the funds to double our presence to 200 cities," he added. Sachin Taparia, Chairman and CEO, LocalCircles said the company represents Social M...

22Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Hindi Social Networking web portal “ShabdaNagari has raised $200000 Dollars in Angel Funding”

New Delhi, Jan 22: Hindi social networking portal, ShabdaNagari, today said it has raised $2,00,000 funding from Kanpur angel fund and clutch of other investors. The portal was launched in January 2015, by IIT Mumbai alumni Amitesh Mishra along with Kaplnesh Gupta and Nikhil Tiwari. The funding will be use in its future expansion plans. The Website has more than 20 thousand registered users, 150 thousand unique visits, 6 lakh page visits and over 100 articles being published on the site everyday with 25 per cent repeat traffic, the company said in a statement. Kalpnesh Gupta, Co-founder, ShabdaNagari said “In the online space today, Hindi doesn’t feature in even top 10 languages despite being one of most popular languages. We have a goal of bridging this digital divide. The angel inve...

Ratan Tata Invests in Baby Care Platform FirstCry.com

21Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Ratan Tata Invests in Baby Care Platform FirstCry.com

Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in baby care eCommerce platform FirstCry, continuing the slew of investments he has made in various startups globally. The Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons and Senior Advisor to IDG Ventures India, has invested an undisclosed amount in his personal capacity into Brainbees Solutions, which owns the FirstCry.com brand, the company said in a statement. ALSO READ: Ratan Tata invests in India’s Largest Cashback & Coupons Site CashKaro.com FirstCry is omni-channel player with presence across desktop, mobile and offline routes offering baby and maternity products in India. It started operations in 2010 and has over 2 million customers. It has over 150 FirstCry branded franchise offline stores across 100 cities in the...

Flipkart invests in parenting social network Tinystep

19Jan By PriyankaNo Comments

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Flipkart invests in parenting social network Tinystep

Tinystep, a parenting social network, today said it has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Flipkart. The Bengaluru-based startup plans to use the funds to develop the product, enhance user experience and strengthen its team, Tinystep said in a statement. The funding will also be utilised to further accelerate the company's growth and user engagement, it added. Tinystep is a mobile app that helps parents connect with each other to communicate, guide and collaborate with each other on parenting with features like Q&A Forum, individual and group chats. "Silicon Valley has given us Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many more awesome social products, Tinystep can be a tiny gift from India. Flipkart is helping us with the required guidance to continue our excelli...

Ratan Tata invests in India’s Largest Cashback & Coupons Site CashKaro.com

19Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Ratan Tata invests in India’s Largest Cashback & Coupons Site CashKaro.com

CashKaro.com, India’s largest Cashback & Coupons Site has raised an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons. Tata has made the investment in his personal capacity. The funding comes just two months after the Gurgaon-based startup raised Rs 25 crores in its Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital, one of India’s leading venture capital firms. CashKaro works on an affiliate model and was founded by entrepreneur couple Swati & Rohan Bhargava in mid-2013. CashKaro had earlier raised USD 750,000 in the year 2013 in angel funding from a group of investors based in London who belong to companies like Paypal, Investec, Goldman Sachs etc. Speaking on the investment, Swati & Rohan Bhargava, Co-founders, CashKaro.com said, “The funding from Mr. Ratan Tata m...

CarTrade.com raises Rs950 crore investment

13Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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CarTrade.com raises Rs950 crore investment

Mumbai: Cartrade.com, an online auto classifieds company also known as MXC solutions Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs.950 crore funding led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek and March Capital, with participation from existing investor Warburg Pincus. The company had raised $30 million in 2014 from a group of investors that included Tiger Global, Warburg and Canaan Partners. The company was founded in 2009 by Vinay Sanghi. Earlier it had raised $30 million from Tiger Global, Warburg and Canaan Partners. The funding will use to expand its offerings for users and dealers. The company will be looking at a few more acquisitions to strengthen its position in the market. The company operated only on the space of used cars until in November 2015 it acquired Carwale to enter into the new cars s...

China’s Baidu in talks with Indian e-commerce start-ups for funding

13Jan By reutersNo Comments

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China’s Baidu in talks with Indian e-commerce start-ups for funding

Baidu Inc, a Chinese web services company, is in talks to invest in Indian e-commerce start-ups including Zomato, BookMyShow and BigBasket, a spokesman for China's top online search provider said on Wednesday. "The Indian market represents an enormous opportunity for us to connect more people with services, and we plan to put more resources there in the future," the spokesman told Reuters by email. Baidu declined to comment on possible investment amounts or time frames. India's technology start-up market is booming as more and more people shop online, in a country where about 20 percent of a population of 1.3 billion are connected to the Internet. The e-commerce market could grow in terms of the value of goods sold to $220 billion by 2025 from $11 billion in 2015, Bank of America Merr...

One More Unicorn in Indian E-commerce industry, ShopClues Raises Fresh Funds

12Jan By PriyankaNo Comments

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One More Unicorn in Indian E-commerce industry, ShopClues Raises Fresh Funds

As per the Mint Report Shopclues an Indian E-commerce platform on Tuesday said it has raised a fresh round of funds led by sovereign wealth fund GIC Pvt. Ltd with participation from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Nexus Venture Partners, valuing the company at more than $1.1 billion. Though the amount has not been disclosed but sources said that it will be around $100-$150 million. “Today, we are the dominant player in low price-point and unstructured categories like lifestyle, home, kitchen, electronic and automotive accessories etc. Our focus on selection, value and trusted shopping for Indian middle class consumers has given us tremendous scale with a rapidly growing buyer and merchant network. We are confident that our capital efficiency and execution will make this ...

12Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Hike raises undisclosed funding from founders Of Quora, WordPress & other Silicon Valley veterans

NEW DELHI: Indian messenger app, Hike, has raised undisclosed funding from a number of tech veterans, including Quora founder, Dropbox's Vice President Engineering Aditya Agarwal, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Ruchi Sanghvi, VP Dropbox. "It's great to have the world's top brains in tech share Hike's vision; and not just entrust us with their investment, but more importantly, also advise us on our product and strategy. Each of the them brings with him/her a core area of expertise, which we at Hike find immensely useful as we aggressively grow in India," Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger, said in a statement. "India is close to our hearts and we understand the challenges faced by the billion plus people of India. It's quite clear that messaging is playing a key...

China’s Ctrip invested $180 million in MakeMyTrip

8Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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China’s Ctrip invested $180 million in MakeMyTrip

India's leading online travel company, MakeMyTrip Limited (NASDAQ: MMYT), announced an agreement under which Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP), a leading travel service provider of accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management in China, has agreed to make an investment in MakeMyTrip. Upon completion of the transaction, Ctrip will invest US$180 million in MakeMyTrip through convertible bonds. In addition, MakeMyTrip has granted permission to the chinese company to acquire MakeMyTrip shares in the open market, so that combined with shares convertible under the convertible bonds. Ctrip may beneficially own up to 26.6% of MakeMyTrip's outstanding shares. Also it will acquire the rights to appoint a director to the MakeMyTrip board of director...

6Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Tracxn a Data Analytics Based Startup Secures Funding From Ratan Tata

Tracxn a data analytics based startup has secured funding from Ratan Tata. The amount has not been disclosed. Started in May 2013, by Goyal and Neha Singh, Tracxn has increased its customer base and team. As per the recent report, Tacxn connected 9295 startups to the investors. Tracxn provides information on start-ups to over 6,000 clients across India, the US, the Middle East, South-East Asia and Europe, and claims to sign up at least one new client every day. “We belong to a generation whose formative years were spent observing Mr Tata’s way of building companies. So, when we saw he was investing in start-ups, we reached out to him,” said Goyal. “There are about 1 lakh funded companies. But there is a universe of about 1 million companies who are unfunded. We organize...