News UK UK-based AI startup ‘Luminance’ acquires $3 Mn in fresh investments Luminance, the brainchild of a group of lawyers and mathematicians, and based… Disha ManochaSeptember 27, 2016No comments2 minute read
The Tech Portal’s Report confirmed : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-leads $50 Mn Series D investment in BYJU’s As speculated for months and reported by us, popular ed-tech startup Byju’s… September 9, 20162 comments3 minute read
Apple is increasing investments in China with hopes of winning it back over Following in the footsteps of its brethren like Microsoft and Qualcomm, Apple… Mir Juned HussainAugust 16, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech News Startups Four European startups, the winners of UberPITCH, get investments from Uber This May, Uber had conducted a program called UberPITCH in Europe which… Mir Juned HussainAugust 10, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech News Startups Slack invests $2 million in 14 startups, via its Slack Fund The immensely popular productivity platform, Slack, has some great news today. The… Mir Juned HussainJuly 20, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech News Startups Mukesh Bansal & Ankit Nagori-owned healthcare startup CureFit secures a staggering $15M in Series A In what is one of the largest Series A investment rounds of this year,… Mir Juned HussainJuly 4, 20163 comments2 minute read
Business News Startups Online Investment firm Scripbox scores Series B round led by Omidyar Network India’s current household penetration of mutual funds is just under 4 percent. This… Mir Juned HussainJune 30, 2016No comments2 minute read
News Start-ups outside India The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes its first charitable investment in a startup named Andela Last December, we saw Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg along with… Mir Juned HussainJune 17, 2016No comments2 minute read
Singapore Boxing Champion Manny Pacquiao invests in GToken Filipino Boxing champion and recently elected Senator Manny Pacquiao purchased stakes in… Kajal JoshiJune 6, 2016No comments1 minute read
Business News Startups Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital fund closes $140M of its $250M Asia fund B Capital, a fund founded by Eduardo Saverin — yup, known more popularly… Mir Juned HussainMay 20, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech Mobile News Post Failure Of Its App-Only Strategy, Flipkart Partners With Alibaba’s UCWeb To Display Its Mobile Site On Latter’s Homepage While Flipkart had earlier announced a partnership with Alibaba-backed Paytm involving its… Deepanshu KhandelwalandMir Juned HussainApril 6, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business News Start-ups outside India Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Raises A Colossal Sixth Fund Worth $1.3 Billion, Brings Firm’s Total Raised Capital To Over $3 Billion Peter Thiel’s decade-old, hugely popular Founders Fund announced on Saturday, that it… Mir Juned HussainMarch 26, 2016One comment1 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech News Startups Infibeam’s $80M Initial IPO Fully Subscribed Ahead Of Books Closing On Wednesday Earlier this week, Infibeam’s IPO had taken a rather hiccup-y turn. This… Mir Juned HussainMarch 24, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business News Startups Venture Capital Firm WaterBridge Ventures Raising Second $10M Fund For Indian Startups Adding to the list of outside-India VCs hustling in to invest in… Mir Juned HussainMarch 16, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business News Startups Lightspeed Venture Partners Raises $1.2 Billion In Fresh Fund California based early-stage venture firm, Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised over $1.2 billion to… Mir Juned HussainMarch 10, 2016No comments1 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech News Startups Paytm Is Raising Close To $400M To Power Up Its New Payments Bank In a rather unsurprising, anticipated move, one of India’s most noted and valued… Deepanshu KhandelwalandMir Juned HussainFebruary 11, 2016No comments3 minute read
News Startups Raw Material Demands Aggregator Power2SME Secures Undisclosed Amount In Series D Power2SME, a startup that aggregates raw material demands of small and medium… Jeet SutharJanuary 25, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business News Startups Norwest Venture Partners To Step Up India Investment Norwest Venture Partners, which is one of the biggest VC firms globally,… Jeet SutharJanuary 25, 2016No comments2 minute read
Business News Start-ups outside India Uber Announces Closure Of Another $2 Billion In Investment From Chinese Firms Uber Technologies Inc. announced on Wednesday that it finally closed an investment round… Mir Juned HussainJanuary 13, 2016No comments1 minute read
Business News Startups Chinese Online Travel Behemoth Ctrip Invests $180 Million In MakeMyTrip China’s Ctrip International, which happens to be one of the biggest online travel… Jeet SutharJanuary 8, 2016One comment2 minute read
Business IT & Web-tech News Start-ups outside India Japanese Adtech Startup Geniee Raises Fresh Series D To Expand Business Across China, India Geniee, a Japanese adtech startup, reported over the holiday weekend that it… Mir Juned HussainDecember 31, 2015No comments1 minute read
