Startups that received funding

Consumer Internet Industry 1) MagicPin founded by Anshoo Sharma and Brij Bhushan: Hyperlocal discovery platform MagicPin secured $1 million in venture debt from Trifecta Capital. 2) HireXP founder Vikas Kakkar: Gurugram-based HR solutions startup HireXP secured an undisclosed amount of funding from the CEO of Knowlarity, Ambarish Gupta along with a British entrepreneur, Marina Zoltoverkh. …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Trilyo founded by Abhishek Moharana and Gaurav Gambhir: A Bengaluru-based B2B hospitality industry SaaS startup, Trilyo that offers AI driven Voice and chat-based solutions for providing next-generation customer experience secured $250K funding led by Startup Buddy, Pulse Venture Capital, Amit Manocha and others. The capital will be mainly deployed to scale …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Grab founded by Jignesh Patel, Nishant Vora and Prakshit Sanghvi: Mumbai-based hyperlocal delivery startup Grab raised $1.5 million in funding led by SIDBI Venture Capital Arm, SIDBI Venture Capital Limited (SVCL). The startup will utilize the funding towards scaling up its smart locker platform and crowdsourced distribution centre model. 2) Linksmart …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Zoomcar founded by David Back and Greg Moran: Bengaluru-based Zoomcar raised $40 million in a Series C funding round from Mahindra & Mahindra. Zoomcar’s capital raise will be deployed mainly for accelerating its marketplace supply growth, improving its lead within applied IoT technologies, and expanding into additional mobility categories across India. …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) SectorQube founded by Arjun Sarath, Biniyas Valiyaveettil, and Sabarish Prakash: Kerala-based SectorQube raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Unicorn India Ventures. The startup has developed smart kitchen appliance and with this funding, it plans to make the product market ready. It also has an eye on international expansion where …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) The Wedding Brigade founded by Sanna Vohra: Mumbai-based online wedding startup secured $1 million in Pre-Series A round of funding from Blume Ventures. The also saw participation of Czar Capital, Mountain Pine Capital, Lets Venture investors and the Keiretsu Forum. The company plans to utilize this funding to expand the team …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Paymatrix founded by Anusha Kurupathi Parambil, Mukesh Chandra Anchuri and Muralidhar Nayak: Hyderabad-based end to end rent management platform Paymatrix raised $4K led by International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad’s IIIT Seed Fund. The startup was a portfolio company of Axis Bank’s accelerator programme and was among five fintech startups recently shortlisted …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) ShareChat founded by Farid Ahsan, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Ankush Sachdeva: Bengaluru-based Indian regional language social platform ShareChat raised $18.2 million in Series B round of funding from Xiaomi Singapore and its sister company Shunwei Capital. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Saif Partners, India Quotient, VH Capital also participated in this …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Hippo Video founded by Karthi Mariappan S, Nilam Chand Jain and Srinivasan Santhanakrishnan: Online video-as-a-service (VaaS) platform Hippo Video secured an undisclosed amount of Pre-Series A round of funding led by Kae Capital. The freshly secured funding will be used to expand the startup’s present operations to Europe, apart from India …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Chaaipani founded by Shruti Chaturvedi: Ahmedabad-based internet-media startup Chaaipani ends a seed funding round. The investment is made by a group of entrepreneurs such as Bhupesh Chowdary (CEO, Powermech), Chiranjiv Patel (MD, PC Snehal Group), Yogesh Chaudhary (Director, Jaipur Rugs), Prabhu Ram (Founder, Paynear), Yogesh Goyal (Director, RTG Ventures), Rahul Agarwal …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) GarageOnRoad founded by Prateek Ranjan: Noida-based online auto services startup GarageOnRoad secured an undisclosed amount in an angel round of funding led by Gaurav Gupta, SVP at Reinsurance Multinational Swiss Re. The startup will use the funds to boost its technology and operations. It will introduce features like on-demand car services …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Refreshed Car Care founded by Chirag Shah: The Mumbai-based on-demand car servicing startup received fiscal backing from USA-based Spiffy, a car care services company. India is one of the fastest growing e-commerce markets and on-demand car servicing needs will immensely increase in the future, hence Spiffy plans to collaborate with Refreshed …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) HomeLane founded by Rama Harinath, Srikanth Iyer and Vivek Parasuram: Bengaluru-based online home interiors startup HomeLane secured $10 million funding from Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and RB Investments. The Indian startup will use the funds to fuel growth and technology innovation to attract customers and designers alike, while also strengthening its …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Dunzo founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Mukund Jha and Kabeer Biswas: Bengaluru-based hyperlocal services startup Dunzo secured $12 million in a funding round led by Google, Blume Ventures and Aspada. With the raised funding, the startup plans to expand in five to six other cities apart from Bengaluru and also …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Chumbak founded by Shubhra Chadda: Bengaluru-based design-led lifestyle brand Chumbak raised $13.1 million funding from mid-market private equity firm, Gaja Capital, along with existing backers Matrix Partners India and Seedfund. Narayan Ramachandran, the Operating Partner at Gaja Capital, also joined the funding round in Chumbak. 2) Befikr founded by Chirajay Sharma, …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Playment founded by Ajinkya Malasane, Akshay Lal and Siddharth Mall: Bengaluru-based Playment, an AI-driven mobile crowdsourcing platform, the Indian startup secured $1.6 million in Pre-Series A round of funding led by YCombinator, Sparkland Capital and Silicon Valley angel investors such as Ryan Petersen (CEO, Flexport), Max Altman and others. Playment was …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) Josh Talks founded by Shobhit Banga and Supriya Paul: Gurugram-based Ted Talks like conference organiser Josh Talks secured an undisclosed amount of funding led by angel investors such as Girish Mathrubootham, founder of cloud-based customer engagement platform Freshworks; Apurva Chamaria, global brand director at IT services firm HCL; and Rohit Chanana, …

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Consumer Internet Industry 1) HappilyUnmarried founded by Rahul Anand and Rajat Tuli: Info Edge (India) Ltd. made a follow-on investment of $770K in HappilyUnmarried against a 47.21% stake. Out of $770K, about $632.9K is planned to be used by HappilyUnmarried for reimbursement of existing debt advanced by a just owned subsidiary of the company to …

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