One97 has acquired Mumbai Angels- and Bangalore Angels-backed, Bangalore-based regional language messaging app startup, Plustxt. Plustxt allows text messaging in Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Malayalam…
New York & Mumbai based online lifestyle retailer Squarekey has raised funding from 500Startups and Devaraj Southworth, Executive Vice President of US-based payments firm Zipmark. Squarekey is a editorially driven…
Bangalore based, online home decor retailer Urbanladder has raised Series A round of funding led by the Saif Partners. With this round of funding Deepak Gaur, Partner at Saif Partners…
Mumbai based payment technology startup LivQuik Technology (India) Pvt Ltd has raised funding from Snow Leopard Technology Ventures. The funds will be used to expand its team in engineering, operations…
The FIPB has cleared Noida-based Curadev Pharma Pvt Ltd’s proposal to raise Rs.25 crores from a Venture Capital fund registered with SEBI. In March 2011 Curadev Pharma was incubated at…
Economic Times has raised the “danger” flag on the bubble building up in the sector in a full page feature. “The hype around impact investing far outweighs reality,” warns Vineet…
Indian Angel Network’s (IAN) virtual incubator has incubated eight new companies since January this year including: Evomo Research & Advancement: the Ahmedabad-based startup is building ‘Saavaj’, a rural utility vehicle…
Sequoia Capital India has invested Rs.3.22 crores in Chennai-based online accounting services firm Reach Accountant. The company issues 10 equity shares and 6,143 preference shares of face value Rs.10 at…
Times Internet’s city guide TimesCity has “acqui-hired” the Pune-based restaurant recommendation mobile app Gawbl, which was launched four months ago on Android. The Gawbl team will be joining TimesCity’s mobile…
Omidyar Network, via ON Mauritius Business, has picked up a 29.33% stake in NeoGrowth, a Mumbai-based NBFC which lends to small and medium sized retailers, for Rs.17 crore. NeoGrowth has…