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Marsplay Raises Funding from Venture Highway, Others
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Marsplay Raises Funding from Venture Highway, Others

Marsplay, a community-led commerce platform has raised funding led by Venture Highway. The pre-series A round, whose size was not disclosed, also saw participation from Alvin Tse from Xiaomi, Jonathan Lau, Partner, Cadorna Ventures, a statement said. Existing angels including the personal offices of Shailesh Rao, a partner with TPG Growth, and Nikhil Mohta, Director, ICICI Ventures also followed on in this round. Marsplay's seed round was led by Amit Agrawal (former YouTube India Head), Vivekananda Hallekere (Bounce CEO) and Shamir Karkal (Simple.com founder) among others, it added. Marsplay plans to use the funds to build its product engineering team and build a strong creator community, it said. https://pixr8.com/funding/edtech-startup-whitehat-jr-raises-10-million-fundi...
Perpule Secured $4.7 million from Kalaari Capital and Others
FUNDING

Perpule Secured $4.7 million from Kalaari Capital and Others

An omni-channel retail tech startup known as Perpule has reportedly raised $4.7 million in a Series A funding round. The particular round was led by Prime Venture Partners, Kalaari Capital and Venture Highway. The company provides consumers with a self checkout option at retail outlets, intends to use the funds for expansion into more outlets across 10 cities in the next year. The app allows customers to discover items, scan barcodes, get offer and pricing information for the products and the option to checkout and pay. Perpule is already working with retailers like Big Bazaar, Vishal Mega Mart, SPAR, MORE, HyperCITY, as well as with Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) such as KFC. Also, the startup recently launched a digital cafeteria solution for QSRs which include cafeterias and ...