Funding

As expected, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has come out with startup listing and fund raising norms that should brings cheers to the fast-growing startup ecosystem in India. While we were expecting reduced application…

Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is working on a new set of guidelines which will allow startups to raise funds from the market, without opting for an IPO or Initial Public Offering. Termed as ‘Alternate Capital Raising…

Ola today officially announced that they have raised Series E round of funding of $400mn led by DST Global with participation from GIC, Falcon Edge Capital and existing investors SoftBank Group, Tiger Global, Steadview Capital and…

TripHobo, a Pune based online travel planning portal announced their Series B funding of USD 3 million led by new investor Mayfield  and current investor Kalaari Capital. This is the second round of funding for TripHobo in the 12 months…

The Indian ECommerce Funding machine keeps buzzing – This time the beneficiary is 3 year old Indian marketplace ShopClues. Tiger Global, which is already overweight in Ecommerce space with their big investments in Flipkart, Myntra, Quikr …

The ecommerce giant next door, Alibaba, is all set to invest nearly $575 million in Noida based Paytm, an online payment platform owned by One97 Communications Ltd, valuing the latter at $1.9 billion. None of the two parties to the…

The VC funding money flowing into India’s lighthouse eCommerce portal Flipkart is next to unbelievable. The ToI reports that Flipkart has raised another $500 to $600 million in funding from it’s existing investors at a pre-money valuation…

The big ticket funding in Indian tech startups just keep on rolling – Zomato, a popular online restaurant search and discovery service today announced that it has closed a fresh round of funding of USD 60 million at a post-money valuation…

2014 will surely go down in history as a marquee year for tech and online startups in India. No one could have predicted at the start of the year that Indian online companies will see such huge infusion of funds from Venture Capitalists,…

The market is abuzz with rumours that India’s largest online retailer, Flipkart, could well be on its way to begin with a third round of mega fundraising this year, valuing the e-commerce retailer at nearly $10 billion. This round is…