Indian Startup Funding & Investment Chart [February 2015]

February 2015

Total Funding Deals – 56
Total Funding Amount (Which was disclosed) – USD 395+ Million
Funding Deals with undisclosed funding amount – 13
Private Equity Deals – 28
Seed Funding Deals – 28
Crowd Funding Deals – 00

Sr. No.	Date (dd/mm/yyyy)	Startup Name	Investors’ Name	Investment Type	Amount (in USD)	Remarks
1	02/02/2015	Faaya	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	16,600	At the 10 minute million event
2	02/02/2015	InstaBounce	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	16,600	At the 10 minute million event
3	02/02/2015	Chloroplast Foods	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	16,600	At the 10 minute million event
4	02/02/2015	Dealwithus	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	16,600	At the 10 minute million event
5	02/02/2015	CleverSharks	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	16,600	At the 10 minute million event
6	02/02/2015	Leaf	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	16,600	At the 10 minute million event
7	02/02/2015	SmartPocket	Sol Primero, Rajiv Mehta	Seed Funding	250,000	For mobile app
8	02/02/2015	Yumist	Orios Venture Partner	Private Equity	1,000,000
9	02/02/2015	NowFloats	Omidyar Network	Private Equity	N/A	Series A
10	02/02/2015	FirstCry	Valiant Capital Partners	Private Equity	26,000,000	Series D
11	02/02/2015	HolaChef	India Quotient	Seed Funding	325,000
12	03/02/2015	Frsh.co.in	India Quotient, Kae Capital	Seed Funding	518,000
13	03/02/2015	Manthan	Temasek, Norwest Venture Partners	Private Equity	60,000,000	Series D
14	05/02/2015	Kobster.com	Splice Advisors	Seed Funding	N/A
15	05/02/2015	Culture Machine	Tiger Global, Times Internet, Zodius Capital	Private Equity	18,000,000	Series B
16	05/02/2015	Paytm	Ant Financial Services (Alipay)	Private Equity	N/A	Strategic Investment (25% stake)
17	05/02/2015	Aisle.co	Anand Vijay, Shashank Mehrotra & Others	Seed Funding	100,000
18	06/02/2015	FreeCharge	Valiant Capital, Tybourne Capital, Sequoia Capital, RuNet and Sofina	Private Equity	80,000,000	Series C
19	06/02/2015	NewsHunt	Falcon Edge Capital, Matrix Partners India, Sequoia Capital India and Omidyar Network	Private Equity	40,000,000	Series C
20	09/02/2015	MyNoticePeriod	IDG Ventures	Private Equity	3,000,000	Series A
21	09/02/2015	CarDekho.com	Ratan Tata	Private Equity	N/A
22	09/02/2015	Faaso’s	Lightbox Ventures	Private Equity	20,000,000	Series B
23	10/02/2015	CarTrade.com	Chip Perry	Private Equity	N/A
24	10/02/2015	StoreKing	Mangrove Capital Partners	Private Equity	N/A
25	11/02/2015	Capital Float	SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital, Aspada	Private Equity	13,000,000	Series A
26	11/02/2015	Nimble Wireless	AngelPrime	Seed Funding	3,000,000
27	11/02/2015	Townscript	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	N/A
28	11/02/2015	FindYahan	Karan Bajwa, Parvesh Bareja , Sunjay Kapur, Amanpreet Bajaj	Seed Funding	N/A
29	12/02/2015	Stayzilla	Nexus Venture Partners, Matrix Partners	Private Equity	20,000,000	Series B
30	12/02/2015	Practo	Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners	Private Equity	30,000,000	Series B
31	13/02/2015	CimplyFive	Suresh Senapaty, TV Mohandas Pai	Seed Funding	N/A
32	13/02/2015	20Dresses	Srinivas Aluri, Srinivas Modukury, BS Nagesh	Seed Funding	1,000,000
33	13/02/2015	Itzcash	Ashok Goel (promoter)	Private Equity	16,500,000	Promoter Commitment
34	16/02/2015	NewsInShorts	Tiger Global, Rebright Partners, Sachin and Binny Bansal	Private Equity	4,150,000	Series A
35	16/02/2015	iTraveller.com	ah! Ventures	Private Equity	1,000,000	Series A
36	17/02/2015	NextGen	Mumbai Angels & Group of other investors	Seed Funding	N/A
37	18/02/2015	Wooplr.com	Helion Venture Partners	Private Equity	5,000,000	Series A
38	19/05/2015	Springleap	Cross Border Angels	Seed Funding	800,000
39	20/02/2015	Klip.in	Calcutta Angels, Venture Nursery Angels Mumbai Angels	Seed Funding	500,000
40	20/02/2015	Renderlogy	Brick Eagle	Private Equity	1,600,000	Series A
41	21/02/2015	Appbase	DA-IICT, Techstars, Carnegie Mellon University, Startup Brasil program	Seed Funding	290,000	Grant + Seed funding
42	23/02/2015	HomeLane	Sequoia Capital, Ranjan Pai, Mohandas Pai & others	Private Equity	4,500,000	Series A
43	23/02/2015	Trip38	InterGlobe Technology Quotient, Lantern Capital	Private Equity	1,000,000	Series A
44	23/02/2015	Smartairtrip.com	Undisclosed	Private Equity	10,000,000	Series A
45	23/02/2015	NoBroker	SAIF Partners, Fulcrum Ventures	Private Equity	3,000,000	Series A
46	24/02/2015	Caravan Craft Retail	Unitus Seed Fund Narayan Ramachandran, Bijou Kurien	Seed Funding	500,000
47	25/02/2015	SquadRun	Amit Ranjan, Deepinder Goyal, Zishaan Hayath, Powai Lake Ventures	Seed Funding	N/A
48	25/02/2015	Clonect Solutions	V Balakrishnan, T V Mohandas Pai, BC Prabhakar	Seed Funding	250,000
49	25/02/2015	TaxSutra	V Balakrishnan, T V Mohandas Pai	Seed Funding	160,000
50	25/02/2015	PepperTap	Sequoia Capital	Seed Funding	N/A
51	25/02/2015	Sattviko	Sumit Jain, Rajat Jain, Sanjay Bhasin	Seed Funding	320,000
52	25/02/2015	IndustryBuying	SAIF Partners	Private Equity	2,000,000	Series A
53	26/02/2015	FreshWorld	Kris Gopalakrishnan, Nagaraja Prakasam	Seed Funding	N/A
54	26/02/2015	TinyOwl	Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners	Private Equity	16,000,000	Series B
55	27/02/2015	Momoe	IDG Ventures India, Jungle Ventures, India Quotient.	Seed Funding	1,200,000
56	27/02/2015	Grofers	Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital India	Private Equity	10,000,000	Series A
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*Some startups may be based out of India, but have Indian founders or Offices in India

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