TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news aggregator Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Thursday it has raised over $450 million in a new financing round, just five months after securing $200 million , as the Indian startup looks to expand its offerings to international markets. India’s ShareChat valued at $2.88

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. There aren’t many hardware startups in India. More to follow…

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures have minted a new unicorn in India: CoinSwitch Kuber. This is a16z’s first investment in India. The four-year-old startup, which including Wednesday’s Series C round has raised about $300 million to date, was valued at over $500 million in its Series B financing in April this year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Indian fintech startup BharatPe has raised $370 million in a new round of financing as it looks to aggressively scale its business in the next two years. It’s the nineteenth Indian startup to become a unicorn this year (up from 11 last year) as several high-profile global investors double down in the South Asian market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to join the coveted unicorn status in the world’s second-largest internet market. Apna announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in a round led by Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. According to the startup, it is now the fourth-largest fintech company globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Policybazaar has raised $75 million as the Indian online insurance platform looks to expand its presence in UAE and Middle East. Sarbvir Singh, chief executive of Policybazaar, told TechCrunch that the startup had raised $75 million, but didn’t elaborate. In India only a fraction of the nation’s 1.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

PhonePe has raised another $100 million as part of an ongoing round , a deliberation that has now helped it pull $450 million in recent weeks despite the market downturn, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Tiger Global, which led the startup’s Series C round in February this year, has led the $125 million Series D financing round in the five-year-old startup. The startup, which counts Nexus, Foundamental and Accel Partners among its investors, has raised about $275 million to date. “We Tiger Global goes super aggressive in India.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

The two-year-old startup, led by high-profile entrepreneur Kunal Shah, said on Monday it has raised $81 million in a new financing round and bought shares worth $1.2 The Series C financing round, as first reported by TechCrunch in late November , was led by DST Global. million (about 90 million Indian rupees) from employees.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. million Series A announced 10 months ago, and its new round brings its total raised to more than $35 million since 2020. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Undergirding their strong conviction is a bet that India and Indonesia and other markets in South Asia will double and triple their GDPs in the next 10 to 15 years, and the public markets and tech companies stand to take a significantly broader role in that surge. The combined market cap of top-five tech companies in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys for the first time in their lives has attracted the attention of Tiger Global. The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has raised $32 million in its Series A financing round, just months after securing its seed funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

UrbanPiper, a restaurant management platform that processes 18% of all online food orders in India, has raised $24 million in a new financing round from a number of investors including Swiggy and Zomato, the three firms said Monday. UrbanPiper has also expanded to seven nations outside of India, including some in MENA and EU regions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A startup that is aiming to digitize millions of neighborhood stores in Bangladesh just raised the country’s largest Series A financing round. Dhaka-headquartered ShopUp said on Tuesday it has raised $22.5 million in a round co-led by Sequoia Capital India and Flourish Ventures. ShopUp has raised about $28 million to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Multiplier , a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised a $60 million Series B at a valuation of $400 million. The round was co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, and brings Multiplier total investment since it was founded in 2020 to $77.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Glade Brook, Nexus, Breyer Capital, Lachy Groom, Global Founders Capital, and Contrary Capital also participated in the round, which brings its to-date raise to $160 million. Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra had returned to India for a break shortly before the pandemic engulfed the nation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion underbanked people globally , the majority of which are from emerging markets. Three years after launching its mobile lending service in Nigeria , the company set up shop in India , Asia’s second-most populous country in August 2020. According to the CEO, data-driven insights was behind the choice to expand to India.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China , which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go nonprofit, have led to a chill among check-writers looking at the country. And everyone seems to be looking to India as the next geographic testing ground. Edtech investors based in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Industry veteran Jitendra Gupta’s consumer-focused neobank Jupiter has raised about $86 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-based startup gears up to offer its customers lending and wealth management services. Launched in beta in June this year, Jupiter has established itself as a market-leading “100% digital bank” in India.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Bzaar , a business-to-business cross-border marketplace, is connecting retailers with over 50 export-ready manufacturers in India. We think the next 10 years of global trade will be different from the last 100 years,” he added. goods imports from India in 2019 were $87.4 Small businesses in the U.S. Traditionally, small U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Luno, Global Ventures and Polygon Ventures are co-investors.). Surge 07 is no exception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its previous funding, as the Bengaluru-based startup scales its platform that helps workers access their earned salaries in real time. Tiger Global led Refyne’s $82 million Series B funding, the two said Wednesday. times since the Series A in June.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

EMotorad, an Indian startup manufacturing electric bikes, raised $20 million in a Series B round as it aims to disrupt China’s market domination and expand its presence in global markets. The three-year-old startup has raised more than $22.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Edtech giant Byju’s, which is India’s most valuable startup with a valuation of $22 billion, has missed the deadline to file its audited results by 17 months. Byju’s has also been in the market to raise a new round for over four months but has had little to no success, according to a source directly familiar with the matter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zomato has raised $660 million in a financing round that it kicked off last year as the Indian food delivery startup prepares to go public next year. Zomato had previously disclosed a fundraise of about $212 million as part of a Series J round from Ant Financial, Tiger Global, Baillie Gifford and Temasek.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Following a record-breaking second quarter, venture capitalists around the world stayed busy in Q3, investing astronomical sums into global startups. In the coming weeks, TechCrunch will explore the global Q3 venture capital market’s results in detail, by business genre (fintech, edtech, etc.) Lots to come, but this is the first look.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

In-suring new funds : India-based insurtech company Acko, which is already backed by Amazon, is in talks for $120 million in new funding. Autio, a location-based audio entertainment app co-founded by actor Kevin Costner and formerly known as HearHere, has raised $5.9 Manish has more. The app is then blasted to 16 investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. Overall, the startup’s revenue has ballooned by 300% since September 2019, when it last raised money , he said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you’re in India, the Philippines, Russia or Vietnam, Amazon Prime and Gorillas are probably not that much use to you. At the same time, it has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by UAE-based investor Mubadala. Also participating were VNV Global, RDIF, Flashpoint Venture Capital and others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tiger Global’s latest investment in India is Vecmocon , a startup building solutions to bring safety and reliability alongside intelligence and health monitoring to light electric vehicles (EVs), addressing concerns that are curtailing the sales of electric scooters in the South Asian market. Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind , which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5 billion (approximately $36 million) Series D round on the back of that boost to make additional acquisitions in Japan and globally. The Series D funding, which brings its total funding to date to approximately $91.7

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2022

The company has announced in a tweet that its latest flagship smartphone will launch globally on March 31st at 10am ET, a little over three months after it launched in China. It’s powered by Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, has a 6.7-inch

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ola Electric said on Thursday it has raised over $200 million in a new financing round at a valuation of $3 billion, up from $1 billion two years ago , as it looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market. TechCrunch reported last month that the startup was in talks to raise at over $2.75

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. On Saturday, Juno announced it has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round.

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