ChrysCapital, SAIF, Seedfund, Kotak Realty Funds win APEX’14 PE/VC Awards
ChrysCapital, SAIF Partners, Seedfund and Kotak Realty Funds were adjudged the leading investors in the Private Equity, Growth Capital, Venture Capital and Private Equity in Real Estate segments respectively during…
Deal Alert: Omidyar Network, Dell Foundation invest INR 28 Cr in IntelleGrow
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…
Deal Alert: Aavishkaar Invests Rs. 18.6 Cr in Mela Artisans
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…
Deal Alert: IAN invests in London-based workforce management software startup SwiftShift
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…
Deal Alert: Helion, Accel invests in e-commerce search firm Zettata
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…
Deal Alert: Vishal Gondal founded wearable tech firm GOQii raises funds from Google exec, others
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…
Deal Alert: Ankur invests Rs. 1.5 cr in 3 early stage rural ventures
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…
Deal Alert: AngelPrime leads Rs.3.1 Cr round for coder hiring startup HackerEarth
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.…
Entrevista with Raj Nair, Founder of Avalon Consulting
Cross Posted from the Entrevista blog. Interview with Raj Nair, Founder-Chairman of Avalon Consulting, the Mumbai-headquartered, international consulting firm and also research and analytics firm Ugam Solutions and artificial intelligence…
Deal Alert: Lionrock Capital, Nisa Godrej, others back baby products e-tailer Hopscotch
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…