Global non-profit Accion, through its seed capital initiative Venture Lab, has invested in Varthana, which provides loans and support to affordable private schools in India, promoting access to and affordability…
Yahoo has acquired the popular San Francisco-based mobile task management app firm Astrid. The app is set to continue as normal for the next 90 days but will no longer…
Bluegape, a fan merchandising store that allows users to create customized products, has raised a seed round from finance professionals Aniket Khera, Rahul Bhatia and an unnamed internet entrepreneur. Bluegape…
Designer jewellery and accessories portal Voylla.com has raised Rs.2.5 crore from Pune-based Snow Leopard Technology Ventures. Chris Kolenaty, Partner, Snow Leopard Technology Ventures, will join on Board of Directors of…
Nokia India, in collaboration with AppCampus (Finland) and members of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels (India Chapter), have launched an initiative called Appcelerate-India to boost mobile app development on Nokia…
Future Ventures India Ltd. (FVIL) is to invest in KFC Shoemaker Pvt. Ltd. Post completion of issue and allotment of equity shares, FVIL will hold 33.3% of the issued and…
BSB, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank Corp., focused on the mobile Internet space, has invested $7 million in hike, a free messaging app startup. hike, which crossed…
Gurgaon-based e-commerce company Yebhi has raised $12 million from its existing investors Fidelity Growth Partners India, Qualcomm Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners and Catamaran. The round seems to be a bridge…
Bangalore-based data aggregation and analytics company Dataweave has raised Rs.1.5 crore in seed round of funding from angel investor & Google India MD Rajan Anandan, Blume Ventures, TLabs (Times Internet),…
Bangalore-based Plustxt Mobile Solutions has raised funding from Mumbai Angels and Bangalore Angels. The company, founded in 2012 by IIT-Kharagpur and IIM-Calcutta alumnus Pratyush Prasanna, provides a text messaging mobile…