Indian Startup Funding & Investment Chart [Jan 2015]

January 2015

• Total Funding Deals – 55
• Total Funding Amount (Which was disclosed) –  USD 373.4 Million
• Funding Deals with undisclosed funding amount – 14
• Private Equity Deals – 25
• Seed Funding Deals – 28
• Crowd Funding Deals – 02

Sr. No.	Date (dd/mm/yyyy)	Startup Name	Investors’ Name	Investment Type	Amount (in USD)	Remarks
1	02/01/2015	LensKart	TPG Growth, TR Capital, IDG Ventures	Private Equity	2,150,000
2	02/01/2015	VioletStreet	Venkat Vallabhneni, Sudhakar Reddy, Srinivasa Rao Paturi	Seed Funding	315,000
3	05/01/2015	Lookup	DeNA Co., Japan & Teruhide Sato (in Addition to MKS Switzerland & Kris GopalKrishnan)	Seed Funding	380,000
4	05/01/2015	#Fame	TO THE NEW Ventures	Private Equity	10,000,000
5	05/01/2015	Gympik	Tom Clausen, Rohan Ajila, Haldyn Glass	Seed Funding	135,000
6	06/01/2015	Near.in	Anupam Mittal, Manish Vij, Prashant Tandon, Gaurav Agarwal, Akash Agarwal, Himanshu Aggarwal, Kevin Parikh	Seed Funding	285,000
7	06/01/2015	Purplle.com	IvyCap Ventures	Private Equity	N/A
8	06/01/2015	NumberMall	SRI Capital	Private Equity	10,000,000
9	06/01/2015	Tookitaki	Jungle Ventures, Redbright Partners, Blume Ventures	Private Equity	1,000,000
10	06/01/2015	Frankly	Matrix Partners	Seed Funding	600,000
11	07/01/2015	Faircent	Devesh Sachdev, Ashish Tiwari	Seed Funding	N/A	Valuation at $4M
12	07/01/2015	Nurturey	Seedrs Crowd funding platform	Crowd funding	125,000
13	07/01/2015	Bewakoof	Rohit Bansal, Kunal Bahl, Nikhil Vora	Seed Funding	N/A
14	07/01/2015	Stridalyzer	Kickstarter	Crowd Funding	30,768
15	07/01/2015	Commonfloor	Google Capital	Private Equity	5,000,000	3rd Round
16	09/01/2015	Sokrati	IvyCap Ventures, Inventus Capital	Private Equity	N/A	Series B
17	09/01/2015	YepMe	JS Capital, Helion Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group	Private Equity	13,000,000	Series A
18	09/01/2015	TapCibo	Alok Goel	Seed Funding	N/A
19	12/01/2015	Verayu	GWB Group, Blume Ventures	Private Equity	N/A
20	12/01/2015	MyDreamStore	Undisclosed Investors	Seed Funding	290,000
21	13/01/2015	AppVirality	Rajan Anandan, Mike Galgon, Ashim Mehra, Mohit Saxena, Ravi Gururaj, TNN Capital & IIG	Seed Funding	N/A
22	14/01/2015	RateGain	TA Associates	Private Equity	50,000,000
23	15/01.2015	Wishberry	Rajan Anandan, Shankar Mahadevan, Deep Kalra & Others	Seed Funding	650,000
24	16/01/2015	eKincare	Adroitent Pvt. Ltd.	Seed Funding	161,000
25	18/01/2015	ShopClues	Tiger Global & Other investors	Private Equity	100,000,000	More Details
26	19/01/2015	Refiral	Cogent E Services	Seed Funding	330,000
27	19/01/2015	Ping Digital	Consortium of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	N/A
28	19/01/2015	HealthyWorld.in	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	200,000
29	19/01/2015	Hostel Dunia	Hyderabad Angels (at Startup Heroes event)	Seed Funding	16,000
30	19/01/2015	Play your sport	Hyderabad Angels (at Startup Heroes event)	Seed Funding	16,000
31	19/01/2015	Yo Grad	Hyderabad Angels (at Startup Heroes event)	Seed Funding	16,000
32	19/01/2015	Enabli	Hyderabad Angels (at Startup Heroes event)	Seed Funding	16,000
33	19/01/2015	CBS	Hyderabad Angels (at Startup Heroes event)	Seed Funding	16,000
34	20/01/2015	Hopscotch	Eduardo Saverin & Velos Capital	Private Equity	11,000,000
35	20/01/2015	Amagi Media Labs	Premji Invest & Mayfield Fund	Private Equity	N/A
36	20/01/2015	HealthyWorld.in	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	200,000
37	21/01/2015	Simplilearn	Mayfield India, Kalaari Capital, Helion Ventures	Private Equity	14,750,000
38	21/01/2015	MyDreamStore	Undisclosed Investors	Seed Funding	325,000
39	21/05/2015	Knit	Rohit Jain, Amit Rambhia & Others	Seed Funding	N/A
40	21/05/2015	Villgro	Michael & Susan Dell Foundation	Seed Funding	3,250,000	To fund edu startups
41	22/01//2015	Corporate360	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	200,000
42	22/01/2015	Freshmonk	August Capital Partners, Michael Blakey	Seed Funding	N/A
43	22/01/2015	Englishleap.com	ANALEC	Private Equity	N/A	Majority Stake
44	22/01/2015	Antuit	Goldman Sachs, Zodius Capital	Private Equity	56,000,000
45	22/01/2015	Caratlane.com	Tiger Global	Private Equity	31,000,000	Series D
46	24/01/2015	Aasaanjobs	Inventus Capital Partners, IDG Ventures	Seed Funding	1,500,000
47	24/01/2015	Impartus	Kaizen Private Equity	Private Equity	N/A	Series A
48	25/01/2015	Thrill App	People Group (Shaadi.com)	Private Equity	1,000,000	Strategic Funding
49	27/01/2015	CarDekho.com	Hillhouse Capital, Tybourne Capital	Private Equity	50,000,000	Series B
50	28/01/2015	Grabhouse.com	Kalaari Capital, Sequoia Capital	Private Equity	2,500,000	Series A
51	29/01/2015	Printvenue	Asia Pacific Internet Group	Private Equity	4,500,000
52	29/01/2015	Graphene	KARSEMVEN Fund	Private Equity	825,000	Govt backed VC Fund
53	30/01/2015	Mad Street Den	Exfinity Fund, GrowX Ventures.	Private Equity	1,500,000
54	30/01/2015	Simplotel	MakeMyTrip	Private Equity	N/A	Strategic Funding, Minority stake
55	31/01/2015	couponmachine.in	UK based Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	140,000

*Some startups may be based out of India, but have Indian founders or Offices in India

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