India Volanews

【Event】Webinar On India Skill Games & Innovations: Legal line TIME&DATE: 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (IST) July 15, 2020

by AIGF

20 mins ago

TECH GIANT Reliance Jio

Qualcomm Ventures to Invest $97m in India’s Jio Platforms for 0.15% Stake Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisor to Reliance Industries and AZB & Partners and Davis Polk & Wardwell acted as legal counsels. Trilegal acted as legal counsel for Qualcomm Ventures.

by DealStreetAsia

2 hours ago

Startups Treebo Hotels

India's Treebo Hotels Gets $3 Mn Cash Rescue from Existing Investors The vast majority of its businesses are on stop-sell, all demand channels have dried up, revenue has nearly disappeared and cash reserves are running low.

by Inc42

3 hours ago

Startups JetSynthesys

Indian Digital Content Startup Jetsynthesys Raises $40m to Expand Ops The company wants to use the latest round of funding to create more success stories across varying demographics, geographies, and socio-economic classes.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-07-10

Startups AI

Gurugram-Based Startup Blue Sky Analytics Raises $1.2M Led by BEENEXT Blue Sky is building AI-powered infrastructure to analyse every pixel on the planet to retrieve the pertaining insights on air quality, water pollution, heat index, flood risk, and more.

by YourStory

2020-07-09

Bharti Enterprises

With Eye on 5G, India’s Bharti Acquires Satellite Company Oneweb for $1 Bn The move may help the consortium to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink in beaming high-speed internet from space.

by Inc42

2020-07-09

Startups Ride-hailling

India's Piggyride Raises Rs 14 Cr in Pre-Series A from JAFCO Asia And Artha Ventures The company runs three products — PiggyRide, PiggyDiscovery, and PiggyFinance.

by YourStory

2020-07-08

Startups CO-LIVING

India's Zolostays Raises $56M in Series C Round from Investcorp, Nexus Venture Partners, Others The company said it will use the fresh funds to strengthen its technology, locking in more inventory, and strengthening AI-driven operating platforms.

by YourStory

2020-07-08

Southease Asia VC

Sequoia Raises $1.35b for New India, Southeast Asia-Focused Funds Singh said the firm's limited partners have collectively committed $825 million to a growth fund and another $525 million to a venture fund.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-07-07

Startups INSURTECH

SoftBank Pumps in $130 Mn into India's PolicyBazaar at $1.5 Bn Valuation The shares have been bought from existing investors like Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital and Inventus Capital India.

by Inc42

2020-07-07

Telecommunication

Reliance Jio Platforms Bags $253 Mn from Intel Capital The investment has come at an equity value of INR 4.91 Lakh Cr and an enterprise value of INR 5.16 Lakh Cr.

by Inc42

2020-07-07

INDIA Startups Real Money Game

【Exclusive】Nostragamus - The New Real Money Games Platform from India From Fantasy Sports followed by Quizzing to traditional real money games like Rummy and Poker and now focused on hyper social games, Nostragamus has become the face if not the leader when it comes to the next stage of Real Money Games in India.

by Anshuman Gandhi

2020-07-06

Startups AI

India's AI Tech Startup Inspektlabs Raises $600,000 in Pre-Series A Funding from Better Capital, Titan Capital Inspektlabs, which is also a part of the 2020 London Barclays Accelerator, builds computer vision products for physical asset inspections using photos and videos.

by YourStory

2020-07-06

Startups

India-based Edtech Startup Flinto Raises $7.2 Mn in Pre-Series B Funding from Lightbox Ventures Flinto aims to make the first experience with learning fun and intuitive for children through high-quality educational kits and tools.

by Inc42

2020-07-03

DATA CENTRE Nxtra Data

Carlyle Invests $235 Mn in Airtel’s Nxtra Data Centres at $1.2 Bn Valuation New Delhi-based Nxtra offers secure data centre services to leading Indian and global enterprises, hyperscalers, startups, SMEs and governments.

by Inc42

2020-07-02

UPI

UPI Hits All-Time High with 1.34 Bn Transactions in June The National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) said that the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recorded 1.34 Bn transactions worth INR 2,61,835 Cr in June 2020.

by Inc42

2020-07-02

INDIA Chinese App Ban REGULATION

Indians Expected To Take VPN Route To Dodge Chinese App Ban The government's move to ban 59 Chinese apps on Monday is likely to push users towards virtual private networks (VPN) once again.

by Inc42

2020-07-01

INDIA Startups HEALTH TECH

India-based Men's Health And Wellness Startup Bold Care Raises Pre-Seed Round Bold Care is a digital me's health and wellness startup that offers free sexologist consultations and discreet delivery of holistic sexual wellness kits.

by YourStory

2020-07-01

INDIA REGULATION MOBILE INTERNET

India Bans 59 China-linked Apps Including TikTok and UC Browser Citing privacy concerns, the Central government today has decided to ban a host of mobile applications in India. The list includes popular social media applications like TikTok.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-06-30

INDIA REGULATION AGRI-TECH

Govt To Introduce Aadhaar-Linked Master Database To Enhance Farm Productivity The government already has the data of 9 Cr farmers who are beneficiaries of the PM-KISAN scheme.

by Inc42

2020-06-30