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ACQUISITION

OYO Acquires Wedding Platform Weddingz

India's one of the leading hotel booking platform OYO acquires online wedding marketplace platform Weddingz in a cash-and-stock deal. Though the amount of the deal has not been disclosed. This is the third acquisition of Softbank backed company in this year. The Gurgaon based company acquired 100% stake in the wedding platform. The platform was backed by early-stage venture capital firms Singularity Ventures and Sixth Sense Ventures “We look at supply, whether it’s hotels, homes or banquets and are always interested in companies that have it and operate in a very similar manner to OYO,” said Maninder Gulati, chief strategy officer at OYO. Founded in 2015 by Sandeep Lodha, Weddingz is India's leading wedding planning platform. After the acquisition, OYO will not change the company ...

Shaadisaga Raises Funding From Kunal Shah & Others

New Delhi: Online wedding platform Shaadisaga had raised an undisclosed amount of pre-series A funding from Anupam Mittal, founder of matrimonial website Shaadi.com, Freecharge founders Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon, and Dheeraj Jain, partner at UK-based hedge fund Redcliffe Capital. ah!Ventures and Rohit Chokhani of White Unicorn Ventures were among the other investors who participated in the round. Founded by Himanshu Kapsime and Manish Garg, Shaadisaga offers couples wedding planning services, providing photographers, make-up artists, marriage venue and so on. “Our team is using technology to essentially bring the offline wedding planning experience onto an online platform, while adding convenience and cost-effectiveness,” said Kapsime. The company will use the money in technolo...

After GOSF, Now WOSF – Women’s Online Shopping Festival is Here To Pamper You

Every woman needs to be treated in a special way and to do so, VelvetCase.com has conceptualised a festival titled Women's Online Shopping Festival (WOSF), wherein various lifestyle and fashion brands will be coming together to provide a shopping paradise to the modern women. Talking about the festival, VelvetCase.com's Founder and CEO, Kapil Hetamsaria said, "I am super-excited to see how an idea born over a dinner conversation a few months ago has snowballed into an event that has the potential of becoming a premier annual property driven by leading brands." Talking about the idea behind WOSF, Neha Kant, Founder of Clovia said, "We see women buyers as significant contributors to the growth of e-commerce and online purchase in India, this made us pop with the idea of WOSF." Meanwhi...