Indian Startup Funding & Investment Chart [Jan 2015]

January 2015

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  • 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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