Deal Alert: Khyati Foods raises funding from SEAF, Sarona Asset Mgmt
Sarona Asset Management, alongside its PE partner SEAF Agribusiness India Fund, has invested in Mumbai-based Khyati Foods Ltd. Khyati processes organic cotton and soybeans, primarily for export to Europe and…
Deal Alert: Patient management SaaS SmartRx raised capital from Ventureast, CIIE
Bangalore-based Smart Cloud Technologies, the developer of SmartRx, a cloud-based patient management solution for doctors and hospitals, has raised funding from Ventureast Tenet Fund, IIM-Ahmedabad’s startup accelerator, CIIE, and other…
Deal Alert: Kalaari Capital invests in bakery chain Ovenfresh
Kalaari Capital, via Kalaari Capital Partners II LLC, has invested in Chennai-based Ubiquitous Foods Pvt Ltd which operates the Ovenfresh bakery chain. A Vichar Partners team led by Aarthi Sivanandh…
Deal Alert: US-India Big Data startup Qubole raises $7-M Series A
Bangalore- and Palo Alto, US-based Qubole Data Service has completed Series A funding round of $7 million from Charles River Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures, as well as angel investors Venky…
Fund Alert: Contrarian Capital to raise $50-M Social VC fund
Contrarian Capital India Partners’ debut fund, called Contrarian Opportunities Fund I, is targeting a corpus of $50 million and will seek to make early stage impact investments. The fund will…
Deal Alert: Ace Tours files for IPO
Surat-based travel agent Ace Tours Worldwide Ltd. has filed the DRHP for an IPO of 50,00,000 equity shares at a cash price of Rs.16 per share aggregating to Rs.8 crore,…
Deal Alert: Kae Cap, Blume, Mumbai Angels invest in app development software firm ShepHertz
VC firms Kae Capital and Blume Ventures and Mumbai Angels have invested in Mumbai-based ShepHertz Technologies. ShepHertz — which provides a cloud-based, back-end technology platform for developers to make, deploy…
Deal Alert: Helion, Ventureast invest in IRM tech firm Seclore
Helion Venture Partners and Ventureast Proactive have made a joint investment in Seclore, a Mumbai-based Information Rights Management (IRM) and secure outsourcing systems firm. Seclore, which has been in the…
Deal Alert: Mobile video firm Apalya raises $10-M from Cisco, others
Mobile video company Apalya Technologies has raised $10 million from Cisco, along with other investors like IDG Ventures India, Indo US Venture Partners and Qualcomm. Cisco has also added Apalya’s…
Deal Alert: Commodities trading software firm Eka acquires Canada’s EnCompass
Bangalore-based Eka Software Solutions, a global provider of advanced commodities and energy trading and risk management technologies (CTRM & ETRM), has acquired Calgary, Canada-based EnCompass Technologies. Established in 1993, EnCompass…