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,…
Deal Alert: Matrix Partners India invests in TechMed
Matrix Partners India today announced that it has picked up significant minority stake in TechMed, a Hospital Lab Management (HLM) pathology chain based out of Chennai. TechMed has partnered with…
Deal Alert: Matrix Partners India invests in Traffline
Matrix Partners India today announced that it has invested in the first institutional round of funding for Birds Eye Systems Private Limited, which offers real-time traffic and travel information for…
Deal Alert: ASAPP Media acquires B2B magazine IPF Online
Mumbai-based ASAPP Media Information Group, a B2B media & information group, has acquired the entire shareholding of IPFOnline Limited and along with it the entire print and online business of…