Deal Alert: Ennovent, Ankur Capital, others back Assam eye care chain ERC
Ennovent Impact Investment Holding and Ankur Capital along with Ennovent Circle members, Beyond Capital Fund and Sadeesh Raghavan closed an angel investment round in Assam-based eye care company, ERC Eye…
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…