Organic Personal care brand Juicy Chemistry grabs $6.3 Mn in a Series A Round

Organic skin & personal care brand Juicy Chemistry has raised $6.3 Mn in a Series A funding round led by Belgium-based investment firm Verlinvest. This marks the largest Series A raise in the D2C beauty and personal care space, according to Juicy Chemistry’s official press release. Juicy Chemistry's co-founders The Coimbatore-based startup was bootstrapped until 2019, when…

ByGirish ShettiMarch 12, 20210Comments

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Ahead of its Stock Market debut, Nazara raises massive 100 crore Funding

Nazara Technologies is heading towards its planned IPO with eye popping INR 100 Cr funding. The Mumbai based company raised massive funding from Instant Growth Limited, an investment arm of Hornbill Orchid India Fund. The company was also in news recently for secondary transaction, after Plutus Wealth Management acquired shares worth Rs 500 crore from…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 9, 20210Comments

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Dailyhunt becomes the latest and probably the last unicorn of 2020

With barely nine days to go to wrap up the coronavirus-inflicted 2020, Dailyhunt has now become the latest startup to enter the coveted unicorn club. The startup, which operates news aggregator platform, announced that its market valuation has exceeded $1 Bn after raising fresh rounds from Google, Microsoft and Alpha Wave Incubation. Logo of news aggregator…

ByGirish ShettiDecember 22, 20200Comments

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Byju’s raises additional $500 Mn from Silver Lake & Other Existing Investors

Barely weeks after raising INR 908 crores or $122 Mn from DST Global, Byju’s has now raised $500 Mn from Silver Lake and other existing investors. According to reports, existing investors include Tiger Global, General Atlantic and Owl Ventures. Byju’s has so far not made any major announcement about this funding but sources claim that…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 8, 20200Comments

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Ola’s Co-founder Ankit Bhatia invests in Edtech startup Winuall

Bengaluru headquartered edtech startup Winuall has raised undisclosed amount of funds from Ola’s co-founder Ankit Bhatia and Nitin Gupta – Head of Eng, Milkbasket. Clutch of angel investors also participated in the funding round but their names were not disclosed. The startup said that it will use the capital infusion for ramping up the business and…

ByGirish ShettiMay 18, 20200Comments

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Byju’s Scales new high with fresh funding of $31 million

Byju’s can willingly claim to be the poster boy of India’s edutech sector, just like Oyo can for hospitality sector or Swiggy for foodtech sector. This tag is most certainly justified given that the Bengaluru based startup has been a spectacular run for a long time now. Today Byju’s long drawn spectacular run got another…

ByGirish ShettiMarch 22, 20190Comments

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Weekly Funding: Week’s Top 5 Biggest Funding Rounds

In a complete contrast to last week’s tepid funding scenario, this week turned out to be a pretty impressive week for the Indian startups. In all week, this week the Indian startups managed to raise approximately $96.64Mn. However, like always, we will narrow our focus on the top five biggest funding activities of this week.…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 24, 20180Comments

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Naspers invests $80 million in the Indian Food delivery Startup Swiggy

Naspers, the South African multinational giant has raised $80 million (Rs 517 crores approximately) in a Series E funding round for Banglore based online ordering and food delivery start-up Swiggy. The mammoth funding received by them will assist them in overperforming their immediate rival Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd. Naspers has invested in a number of online food…

ByPrashant SharmaMay 30, 20170Comments

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Wix raises $3.5 Million more…proving its worth quite well

Wix has recently raised $3.5 Mn in funding making a total funding of $8.5Mn till now.They are having steady growth till now. Wix,a flash website builder service which we reviewed earlier has recently raised $3.5 Million from Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners,making its overall funding total to $8.5 Million. When we reviewed this web service in May,2008,Wix was in closed beta but its product was strong enough to let us realise its worth at that time itself.It proposed a solution to the core problem of flash websites-'SEO unfriendliness',by making the content of the website crawlable by search engines. In our recent post titled Website designing for beginners,we listed Wix and few other website building services(Weebly,Synthasite,Snappages) which can really help naive users create professional websites within no time. Today,Wix is serving more than 2,00,000

ByPrashant SharmaOctober 14, 20080Comments

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