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Insurance Startup Bright Health Secures $200 million in Series C Round

30Nov By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Insurance Startup Bright Health Secures $200 million in Series C Round

Minneapolis-headquartered insurance startup Bright Health has raised funds amounting to $200 million in Series C funding round. The round was led by Tom Valdivia, a former Definity Health executive. The valuation of the company, following the round has reached at $950 million. New investors Declaration Partners and Meritech Capital participated in the round, with backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Greycroft, NEA, Redpoint Ventures and others. The company is planning to utilize these funds to rapidly expand into new markets, planning to triple its geographic footprint in 2019. “Bright Health has continued to execute at a fast pace towards our goal of disrupting the old health care model that places insurers at odds with providers,” Sheehy said in a statement. “[Its] current high...

19Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

FUNDING

Online Home Design Startup Livspace Raised $70 Million in Series C Funding

Online home design and décor company Livspace has raised an amount of $70 million in a series-C financing round. The particular round was led by private equity firm TPG Growth and Goldman Sachs. This has made it one of the largest funding rounds in the vertical e-commerce space in the recent times. The funding round also witnessed participation from investors such as Jungle Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Helion Ventures. With this round, the valuation of the four-year-old startup has reached around $250-300 million. The funds raised through the round are being planned to be utilized in the process of strengthening the company’s offline footprint along with marketing and branding spends. Talking about the details, the company claims to have designed close to 6,000 homes si...

7Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Robotics Firm GreyOrange Raises $140 Million in Series C Funding Round

A Singapore-headquartered robotics company GreyOrange has secured funds amounting to $140 million in a Series-C funding round. This round was led by Mithril Capital. The other backers that participated in the funding round were Mitsubishi, Flipkart, Project Verte and Blume Ventures. The leading backer Mithril Capital is a venture firm co-founded by Ajay Royan and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, with the valuation estimated to be between $400 million and $500 million. The company is planning to deploy these funds to expand its supply chain and manufacturing capacity and double down on R&D. “We see Mithril as a strategic investor as there is an alignment with their core technology focus. The investment from Flipkart will strengthen our relationship,” CEO Samay Kohli said. Foun...

29Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

FUNDING

Cashify Raises $12 Million In Series C Funding Round

Cashify, an e-commerce company for used smartphones and gadgets has raised an amount of $12 million in Series C round of funding. The investors that led the funding were CDH Investments and MorningSide Group, along with Chinese re-commerce company AiHuiShou associating as a strategic investor. Apart from this, the existing investors were Bessemer Ventures and Shunwei Capital. Lately, in June, the company had raised funds from its strategic investor, AiHuiShou which then became its partner for the purpose of international expansion. Through this investment, Cashify aims to double its transaction volume to 200K by the end of the financial year 2019. Cashify will use the capital to boost up its operational capability and technology needs to grow the business’ footprint in India and g...

Challenge for Startups to Get Series C & Beyond Funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan

7Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Challenge for Startups to Get Series C & Beyond Funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan

Securing series C and beyond funding is a challenge for start-ups, Information Technology veteran Kris Gopalakrishnan said as he called for a simple, orderly and fast-track mechanism to shut failed businesses. The start-ups scenario in India is pretty good but when those firms go for series C and beyond funding, there are some challenges, the co-founder and former CEO of Infosys said. "But at the seed stage or series A (funding), there is still money available; good ideas will get funded and there are lot of opportunities for innovation and new startups in the area of financial services, healthcare, niche retail and deeper technologies, converting research into new products and new businesses," Gopalakrishnan told Pixr8 here. "So, there are significant opportunities still (to tap in t...