Former Times Internet CEO Rishi Khiani’s incubation firm AntFarm has raised Series A funding from Bay Capital and Hausela Capital Partners. It plans to use this investment to build new…
Bangalore-based education start-up, SmartOn has been selected to TechStars Kaplan Global Edtech Accelerator (3 months programme) for 2014. SmartOn, as part of the programme, will receive $20k from Techstars in…
Bangalore-based Zen Lefin, which owns and operates online SME lending platform Capital Float, has raised INR 6 crore from SAIF Partners. The funding is the latest tranche of round which…
So informs Shyam Kamadolli of Fidelity’s Private Equity arm in his blog post titled “India’s Internet – the second gold rush”. Extracts: Last week, on one of the hottest afternoons…
AppDra Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, a Bangalore and US-based app development start-up, has raised $1.5 million in Series A financing via Becovillage, a crowd-funding platform. Co-founded by Raghavendra Prasad and…
SocialCops, a data and analytics startup, has secured a seed funding of $320K from 500 Startups, Rajan Anandan, Manoj Menon and others. It leverages the power of technology, mobile and…
IDG Ventures India and Inventus Capital Partners have invested $2 million (about Rs 12 crore) in Mumbai-based SaaS and big data analytics venture Peel-Works. Proceeds from the Series A round…
Bangalore-based IT services Wipro, has set up a venture capital fund that will look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology start-ups globally. The initiative is being driven by Chief Strategy…
Hyderabad-based renewable energy services start-up Fourth Partner Energy (4PEL) has raised a series-A funding of Rs 3 crore from the Chennai Angels. The start-up, co-founded by Vivek Subramanian, who earlier…
Omidyar Network, promoted by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has invested in start-up news and commentary website Scroll.in. The investment was made into Scroll India’s US-based parent, Scroll Media Inc. Scroll…