Girish Shetti

A writer with a passion for tech, marketing, and sports, he delivers captivating articles for the tech enthusiasts. Girish’s expertise in technology and startup analysis brings insightful content and the latest trends to our readers. He loves being the ‘first’ to know(and write) all that’s happening in the world of Tech and startups.

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Funding News

Edtech startup Genius Corner Secures Funding from Singapore based Investors

Genius Corner, a Noida based edtech startup, has raised US$ 250K from clutch of Investors based in Singapore. The Singapore-based investors include Mahesh Mohta, Jyoti Arora, Nachu Subramanian and Srivats. K-12 focused edtech startup Genius Corner scoops up US$ 250K in fresh funding... Genius Corner will use the proceedings to bring additional 30,000 students on its online…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 17, 20200Comments

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Falcon Edge Capital raises $300 Mn Fresh Funding Corpus

Falcon Edge Capital has raised fresh funding corpus of $300 Mn that will be duly utilized for fulfilling capital requirements of startups based in India and Southeast Asia. Falcon Edge Capital, a US based investment firm, raises $300 Mn in fresh funding corpus. The investment vehicle of the government of Abu Dhabi and clutch of investors from…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 17, 20200Comments

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Weekly Startup Funding: Investors Finally open up their Coffers

This week the startup funding activities finally got a decisive boost as investors finally decided to overcome their docile mood and open up their coffers. SoftBank backed FirstCry raised this week's biggest funding round... As a result, the week saw some big ticket funding to round up to what is presumably the best funding week so far…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 15, 20200Comments

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Social commerce app Simsim Rakes $8 Mn in Series B Round

Social commerce app Simsim, which is operated by parents company SZS Tech, has secured $8 Mn in a Series B funding round. Existing investors China’s Shunwei Capital and Accel Partners spearheaded the latest funding round. According to reports, no other investors participated in the round. Simsim co-founders Amit Bagaria, Kunal Suri, and Saurabh Vashishtha Simsim app, which was…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 14, 20200Comments

Featured Startups

AjnaLens: India’s Emphatic Answer to Microsoft’s Hololens

Startup: Dimension NXG Brand name: AjnaLens Founders: Abhijit Patil, Pankaj Raut and Abhishek Tomar Founding Year: 2014 Headquarters: Mumbai Funding: Angel funding Investors: Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Nailesh Khimji, Japan Vyas, Chetan Kajaria, Manish Bhatia, Jay Jesrani & others. Back in 2014 at IIT Mumbai’s sprawling complex three young entrepreneurs – Abhijit Patil, Pankaj Raut and…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 13, 20200Comments

News

25 Winning startups in Turbostart programme to Receive 1 Mn Funding

25 promising startups emerged as final winners on Wednesday in InnovationQore’s Cohort 1 of Turbostart programme. The programme was held in the IT city of Bengaluru. Ganesh Raju: Founder & CEO of InnovationQore These 25 startups will receive funds up to $1 Mn each and also be provided with end to end services to help them scale…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 13, 20200Comments

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Brick&Blot Raises Pre-series A Funds from Sequoia and others

Brick&Blot’s parent company PluckWalk Technologies Pvt LTd has raised $1.5 Mn in a Pre-series A round. Sequoia’s scale up program, Surge, spearheaded the funding round. Arpit (L) and Jayesh Rajpurohit, co-founders Brick&Bolt Clutch of individual investors like Livspac’s founders Anuj Srivastava & Ramakant Sharma and Aakash Goel of Trifecta also contributed to the round. Brick&Blot, which is headquartered…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 12, 20200Comments

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Recruiter Platform Workindia Secures $5.9 Mn from Xiaomi

Recruiter job platform WorkIndia has secured fresh investment of Rs 42 crore or $5.9 Mn from Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi. According to reports, no other investor participated in the funding round. Chinese electronic giant Xiaomi invests $5.9 Mn in WorkIndia WorkIndia claims to be India’s largest blue collar recruitment platform. The company touts that it has 1.5…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 11, 20200Comments

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Fevicol’s brand owner Pidilite leads $40 Mn Round in Pepperfy

Online furniture market place Pepperfy has got a new high profile investor in the form of Pidilite, the brand owner of popular adhesive brand Fevicol. Adhesives manufacturer Pidilite leads $40 Mn round in Pepperfy Pidilite has led a $40 Mn funding round in Pepperfy, according to Economic Times (ET). The ET report further claims that existing investors…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 10, 20200Comments

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Weekly Startup Funding: Byju’s & Waycool Scooped up Largest Funding Round

Unicorn edtech startup Byju’s played an rescue act at last minute to salvage this week’s funding scenario. However, the week’s biggest surprise came from the agritech space, since the week’s second largest funding round was raised by an agirtech startup. Byju’s & Waycool raised this week's largest funding This was the first…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 8, 20200Comments

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