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22/02/2022

Good Glamm-backed Sirona buys women safety brand Impower in all-cash deal

Good Glamm Group-backed Sirona Hygiene, has acquired pepper spray brand Impower from Donna FMCG Pvt Ltd in an all-cash deal, for an undisclosed amount. With this buyout, Sirona will be foraying into the women safety segment, with doubling down its growth strategy.
21/02/2022

Education-Focused Fintech Startup Propelld Bags USD 35 Million Funding From WestBridge Capital, Others

Fintech startup Propelld has raised USD 35 Million in Series B funding led by WestBridge Capital along with existing investors Stellaris Venture Partners and India Quotient. The fund will be utilised to further strengthen inhouse tech and collection capabilities.
21/02/2022

IPO-Bound Pine Labs Bags USD 150 Million From Alpha Wave Ventures

IPO-bound fintech unicorn Pine Labs has raised USD 150 Million from Alpha Wave Ventures at a little over USD 6 Billion valuation. The round seems to be a Pre-IPO round of the 22-year-old fintech giant which is gearing for a NASDAQ listing this year.
21/02/2022

Metaverse Startup Bullieverse Raises Funding To Build Play-To-Earn Games

Bullieverse, has raised USD 4 Million in a funding round led by Web3.0 venture funds The round also saw participation from 6th man Ventures, Okx Blockdream Ventures, Fundamental Games, C2 Ventures, Gate Labs, GravityX, Roark Fund, LD Capital, Rainmaker Games, Good Games Guild, Gen Block, Shima Capital, DWeb3, ExNetwork and […]
21/02/2022

Increff Bags USD 11 Million From Premji Invest, TVS, 021 Capital

Supply chain management startup Increff is raising USD 11 Million in a fresh round of funding led by Premji Invest. The round also saw participation from TVS Shriram Growth fund along with its existing investor Binny Bansal’s 021 Capital. Individual investors such as Prem Gupta, Rajesh Ramaiah, Kamal Khanna, Manish […]
21/02/2022

BigBasket acquires Kerala startup Agrima Infotech

BigBasket has acquired the enterprise business unit of a deep-tech company Agrima Infotech incubated by Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) with a focus to revolutionise offline retail in the country.
18/02/2022

ElasticRun Turns Unicorn With USD 330 Million Funding From SoftBank

ElasticRun had raised USD 330 Million funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The startup further confirmed that it saw particiaption from Abu Dhabi’s Chimera and Innoven along with Prosus Ventures.
18/02/2022

Ace Green Recycling Secures Over USD 7 Million Funding To Expand Its Li-ion Reusable Technology

Battery recycling technology startup Ace Green Recycling has secured more than USD 7 Million in a funding round led by Circulate Capital. Climate Angels also participated in the round along with angel investors. The funds raised will be used to develop its li-ion reusable technology and expand the 30-member team […]
18/02/2022

Dutch impact fund IDH FarmFit enters India with bet on Omnivore-backed Stellapps

Stellapps Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has raised an undisclosed amount from Netherlands-based investor IDH FarmFit, which is the fund’s first equity investment in India. Among other investors include ABB Ventures, Gates Foundation, Celesta Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Venture Highway and Blume Ventures.
18/02/2022

Kalaari writes USD 10 Million cheque to agri-inputs startup AGRIM

AGRIM, a B2B platform for agri-inputs, has secured Series A funding of USD 10 Million led by Kalaari Capital. The round also saw participation from Omnivore, India Quotient and Accion Venture Labs, besides Axis Bank joining the fundraise as part of their Bharat Banking initiative.
18/02/2022

Recently turned unicorn DealShare adds USD 45 Million from ADIA, could IPO in 24 months

DealShare a social commerce startup, has raised an additional USD 45 Million from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) at a valuation of USD 1.7 billion. DealShare plans to use the funds to enhance its technology, customer acquisition and for product innovation.
18/02/2022

Early-stage startups Sublime Life, Habanero Foods raise funding

Sublime Life has raised USD 2 million funding from Roots Ventures, the family offices of Apar Industries and Umesh Sanghvi India and a host of high net-worth individuals (HNIs). The round also saw participation from senior professionals from Reckitt, Google, IBM and Ador.
18/02/2022

Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath invests in drone start-up Omnipresent Robot Tech

Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, along with Abhijeet Pai, has invested in drone start-up Omnipresent Robot Tech through their investment arm Gruhas Proptech.The amount invested by Kamath and Pai has not been disclosed.
17/02/2022

Vernacular Edtech Startup Entri.app Secures USD 7 Million From Omidyar Network India, Others

Vernacular edtech startup Entri.app has raised USD 7 Million in Series A funding round led by Omidyar Network India with participation from Boston-based Innospark Ventures and Integrated Capital. This round of funding follows the company’s USD 3.1 Million seed round and brings the total capital raised to USD 10.1 Million.
17/02/2022

Location Intelligence Startup Data Sutram Secures Funding From Varanium Capital, Yatra Angel Network

Location intelligence startup Data Sutram has bagged a USD 2.07 Million funding led by Varanium Capital and Yatra Angel Network. The other participants include DMI Finance’s Sparkle Fund, White Ventures, Seeders LLP, notable angel investors, IIFL Fintech Fund and Indian Angel Network.
17/02/2022

Women Healthtech Startup Proactive For Her Bags USD 5.5 Million To Launch Flagship Clinic

Women Healthtech Startup Proactive For Her, has raised USD 5.5 Million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures South East Asia and India with participation from existing investor Nexus Venture Partners.
17/02/2022

Suniel Shetty Invests In Fitness Startup Aquatein, Joins As Brand Ambassador Too

Actor Suniel Shetty has invested an undisclosed amount in fitness startup Aquatein and joined it as investor and brand ambassador too. Aquatein is a keto-friendly, gluten-free, lactose-free and 100% vegetarian drink which is basically made of water with added protein.
17/02/2022

Nanonets Raises USD 10 Million Funding to Help Enterprises Automate Document Workflow

Workflow automation startup, Nanonets, has raised USD 10 Million in its Series A funding round led by Elevation Capital. Early investors in the startup include actor Ashton Kutcher, Y Combinator, SV Angel, and Soma. The funds will be used to ramp up hiring across engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning […]
17/02/2022

Healthcare platform GOQii raises USD 50 Million led by Sumeru Ventures

GOQii Inc. has raised USD 50 Million in a Series C funding round led by Sumeru Ventures. The round saw participation from existing investors Mitsui. The equity round was led by Sumeru Ventures, Blacksoil Capital and Trifecta Capital led venture debt funding.
17/02/2022

Enterprise SaaS platform Actyv.ai snags USD 5 Million in pre-series A round

Actyv.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform has raised pre-Series A funding of USD 5 Million from Dubai-based 1Digi Investment management firm, the family office of Raghunath Subramanian, Global CEO, Actyv.ai. The company plans to use the fresh funds to scale and expand globally.
17/02/2022

Intelligence solutions provider Marj Technologies nets funding from JITO Angel Network

Intelligence solutions provider, Marj Technologies has bagged seed funding of INR 2.55 crore led by JITO Angel Network. The company plans to use the fresh funds for making intelligence platforms and ecosystems, driving decision-making in manufacturing plants and providing artificial intelligence-based macro and micro-level insights.
17/02/2022

Automation platform Uniphore raises USD 400 Million led by NEA , turns unicorn

Uniphore Technologies Inc, a conversational automation platform, has raised USD 400 Million in a Series E funding round led by New Enterprise Associates at a USD 2.5 Billion valuation. The round saw participation from March Capital, Sorenson Capital Partners, and Sanabil Investments. Some of its existing investors also participated in […]
16/02/2022

Celebration-Focussed ‘House Of Brands’ Join Ventures Raises USD 10 Million

Mumbai-based House of Celebration-focussed D2C Brands Join Ventures has raised USD 10 Million in its Series A round from DSG Consumer Partners, Rajiv Dadlani Group, 9Unicorns and Venture Catalysts. Join Ventures plans to use the funds to ensure the expansion of its dark stores network, product development via tech advancements […]
16/02/2022

Early Stage VC 8i Ventures to mark first close of Fund II By April 2022

Early-stage venture capital (VC) fund 8i Ventures had launched 8i Fund II — with a corpus of USD 50 Million. The ticket size of investments will range between USD 500K and USD 5 Million depending on the growth stage and maturity of the company
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