Delhi-based Oravel Stays, which runs short-stay accommodation portal Oravel.com, has received funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Oravel had raised seed funding from angel investors like Fame Cinemas founder Shravan Shroff,…
Omidyar Network and existing investor Michael and Susan Dell Foundation have invested INR 28 crores in Mumbai-based NBFC company IntelleGrow. The funding will be used by the company to increase…
Social venture firm Aavishkaar Venture Management has invested Rs. 18.6 crore in luxury lifestyle brand Mela Artisans, a company founded in 2010 by Navoze Mehta and Sonali Mehta-Rao. Mela is…
Indian Angel Network (IAN) is to make an investment in UK start-up SwiftShift, a provider of software solutions. London-based SwiftShift has developed a software solution that allows companies to quickly…
Helion Venture Partners and Accel Partners have invested in Bangalore-based e-commerce search firm Zettata. Founded by Srinivasan Seshadri and Vikram Srinivasan, two former academics who had also worked at Bell…
Former Indiagames founder Vishal Gondal’s new wearable tecg venture GOQii has raised several million dollars from angel investors including Google Senior Vice President Amit Singhal, Flextronics CEO Mike McNamara, EDventure’s…
Mumbai-based impact investment fund, Ankur Capital, has invested in three early-stage ventures that focus on rural markets. The three firms are: CropIn, a cloud-based farm management systems company, home compost…
HackerEarth, a start-up which helps multinational companies hire programmers, has raised Rs 3.1 crore seed funding from Angel Prime as it prepares to expand operations in India and overseas markets.…
Singapore-based investor LionRock Capital, besides Industrialist Adi Godrej’s younger daughter Nisa, Skype co-founder Toivo Annus and Diapers.com co-founder and CTO Wei Yan, have invested $2 million in Hopscotch, a Mumbai-based…
A huge pall of uncertainty surrounds the future of Growth Capital investing in India. Is the segment, that represents the bulk of both the supply and demand for private equity…