Deal Alert: Online art firm Springr gets seed capital from TiE-Kerala
Springr, a Kerala based start-up platform for Art, today received an angel funding of Rs 3.5 lakh from TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Kerala in the form of an interest-free loan.…
Deal Alert: Moody’s buys KPO Amba Research; deal size estimated at $90-M
Global credit rating agency Moody’s has acquired knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services firm Amba Investment Services which provides investment research and quantitative analytics for global financial institutions. Post-acquisition, Amba will…
Deal Alert: IDG Ventures leads Rs.21-Cr second round for financial data firm Heckyl
Financial data analytics startup Heckyl Technologies has raised a second round of funding led by IDG Ventures India. The Mumbai-based company will receive INR 21 crore with participation from existing…
Deal Alert: Unilazer to lead Rs.36-Cr in lingerie e-tailer Zivame: report
UTV founder and entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala’s Unilazer Ventures is leading a $6 million, or Rs 36 crore, investment into Bangalore-based Zivame, a lingerie e-commerce startup. Existing investors too are participating…
Deal Alert: Villgro invests in three social enterprises – OneBreath, Ecozen Solutions and Artoo
Social enterprise incubator Villgro has invested in three companies – OneBreath, Ecozen Solutions and Artoo. OneBreath, co-founded by Vijay Simha, Matthew Callaghan and Bryan Loomas, is a medical device company…
Deal Alert: DSG Consumer invests in ethnic snack maker Tierra Food: report
Singapore-based venture capital fund, DSG Consumer Partners, has invested in Tierra Food India Pvt Ltd, a food processing and ethnic snack food company based out of Kochi. Tierra would utilise…
Deal Alert: Nine Indian startups in Startup Chile’s latest batch
Start-Up Chile, the start-up accelerator run by the Chilean government, has announced the list of selected startups for its 9th batch and Indian startups account for 9% of the list.…
Why NEN’s Srikrishna wants Indian entrepreneurs to stop reading Techcrunch
From Srikrishna’s blog post (emphasis mine) Every time I hear an entrepreneur in India tell me “It’s Angel List meets GitHub” I try not to grimace…Silicon Valley, even within the…
Deal Alert: Lightspeed invests $550-K in mobile spam blocker maker Phone Warrior
Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested $550k in New Delhi -based start-up Phone Warrior, an application that blocks spam calls and text messages on the mobile. Founded in 2012 by Chandan…
Deal Alert: ah! Ventures invests in uFaber Edutech
Mumbai-based online education marketplace uFaber Edutech has raised Rs 37 lakhs in funding from ah! Seeders, the seed investment network of Club ah! uFaber lists courses on professional skill-development, hobbies,…