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Byju’s has acquired WhiteHat Jr., a live coding platform for kids, for $300 million in all-cash deal

In a deal that was rumoured for quite some time, ed-tech behemoth…

IoT startup Probus lands seed round from Unicorn India Ventures

As the decades have passed, both the need and cost of electricity…
Oyo

OYO to merge its hotel and residential units business in Japan

OYO Japan announced that it will be consolidating its two units –…
Apple

Apple has reportedly acquired a startup to turn iPhones into payment terminals

Acquisitions and Apple are two words that almost never come out in…

Nearbuy founder Sumeet Kapur raises $200K from Inflection Point for his new wellness startup ‘Wellcure’

Keeping aside all the nightmares that have come true during COVID-19, one…
Ather

Electric two wheeler maker Ather Energy gets another $12Mn from Hero MotoCorp

Ather Energy, the much storied Indian electric two wheeler company has received…

Agritech startup VeGrow seeded with $2.5M to build world’s largest asset-light farming model

VeGrow, an agri-tech startup that is aggregating small farmlands across the country…

MPowered lands $21M in fresh round as it looks to transform real-estate assets into ‘agile profitable centers’

India based unique space-as-a -service startup-MPowered has landed a $21M pre-Series A…

Fampay partners with India’s payments regulator to launch a number-less debit card for teenagers

Fintech startup FamPay, on Thursday, launched FamCard, a numberless card that allows…

Online tutoring platform Vedantu lands $100 million in Series D round

With COVID-19 changing the way students learn, the Indian online education sector…

Customer Intelligence platform Zeotap raises $42 million in a Series C round

To cope with the uncertainty in the global economy brought along by…

goDutch, a payments app that lets you settle joint expenses, raises $1.7M from Matrix Partners, Y Combinator

Payments startup GoDutch has secured $1.7 million in a funding round led…

Plum, a platform that eases group health insurance hassles for companies, raises $930K in seed round

When you are a small business, a startup or are just starting…

Rivian raises a gigantic $2.5 billion as it races to launch an all electric line of pickup trucks

Rivian, possibly the only other electric vehicle maker with the financial and…
Zomato

Zomato revenues double to $394Mn, losses decline as ‘per order’ profits see uptick in India

Zomato on Friday, published its Mid-COVD 19 performance report, and the numbers…

Freshworks makes third buyout this year, acquires IT orchestration and cloud management startup Flint

Freshworks has acquired India based IT orchestration and cloud management platform Flint,…
softbank

Policy Bazaar founder says capital raise from Softbank was a ‘Mistake’

It is not often that you see unicorn founders speaking up to…
Flipkart

Flipkart acquires $35M worth stake in Indian fashion brand Arvind’s Fashions

In a bid to accelerate growth of its cashcow Fashion ecommerce vertical,…