Indian Startup Funding & Investment Chart [March 2015]

March 2015

• Total Funding Deals – 60
• Total Funding Amount (Which was disclosed) –  USD 465+ Million
• Funding Deals with undisclosed funding amount – 13
• Private Equity Deals – 31
• Seed Funding Deals – 29
• Crowd Funding Deals – 00

Sr. No.	Date (dd/mm/yyyy)	Startup Name	Investors’ Name	Investment Type	Amount (in USD)	Remarks
1	02/03/2015	TrulyMadly.com	Helion Venture Partners, Kae Capital	Private Equity	5,500,000	Series A
2	02/03/2015	InstaLively	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	120,000
3	03/03/2015	Vserv	Maverick Capital, IDG Ventures India	Private Equity	15,000,000
4	03/03/2015	Intruo.com	Ashutosh Lawania, Alok Goel & others	Seed Funding	N/A
5	05/03/2015	Niffler	SAIF Partners	Seed Funding	1,000,000
6	05/03/2015	CustomFurnish.com	Madhukar Gangadi, Satish Reddy, Srini Raju, Srini Koppolu & SIDBI	Private Equity	2,500,000
7	06/03/2015	MapMyGenome	Rajan Anandan & other angel investors	Private Equity	1,200,000
8	09/03/2015	Crowdfire (formerly Justunfollow)	Kalaari Capital	Private Equity	2,500,000
9	09/03/2015	Bite Club	Powai Lake Ventures, Aneesh Reddy, Ashish Kashyap, Alok Mittal	Seed Funding	500,000
10	10/03/2015	Localbanya	Shrem Strategies	Private Equity	N/A	Series B
11	11/03/2015	Appedo	Undisclosed Investors	Seed Funding	1,000,000
12	11/03/2015	Fitraq.com	Tarun Arora	Seed Funding	150,000
13	11/03/2015	ChargeBee	Tiger Global, Accel Partners	Private Equity	5,000,000	Series B
14	11/03/2015	Groupon India	Sequoia Capital	Private Equity	20,000,000
15	12/03/2015	Process 9	IAN Ventures, Alok Sharma, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Saurabh Srivastava, Ajai Chowdhry	Seed Funding	N/A
16	12/03/2015	MoonFrog Labs	Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital.	Private Equity	15,000,000	Series A
17	13/03/2015	Foodpanda	Rocket Internet AG & others	Private Equity	110,000,000	Series C
18	13/03/2015	Paytm	Ratan Tata	Private Equity	N/A	More details
19	13/03/2015	DiabetOmics	VentureEast,  Varaprasad Reddy	Private Equity	5,000,000	Series C
20	13/03/2015	Qyk	Powai Lake Ventures, Zishan Hayath, Abhishek Goyal, Sahil Barua	Seed Funding	N/A
21	14/03/2015	Daily Rounds	Kae Capital, GSF, Teruhide Sato	Seed Funding	500,000
22	14/03/2015	Orobind	Zishaan Hayath, Lalit Mangal, Harpreet Singh Grover	Seed Funding	200,000
23	14/03/2015	Routofy	Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal	Seed Funding	N/A
24	16/03/2015	Digital Gorkha	Ramesh kavediya	Seed Funding	166,000
25	16/03/2015	NestAway	IDG Ventures, Naveen Tewari	Seed Funding	1,300,000
26	16/03/2015	The Better India	I-cube-N	Seed Funding	166,000
27	16/03/2015	Meru Cabs	Value Fund Advisors	Private Equity	50,000,000
28	17/03/2015	GolfLAN	YourNest Angel Fund	Seed Funding	N/A
29	18/03/2015	Drivestream	Wipro	Private Equity	5,000,000
30	18/03/2015	wWhere	Group of Angel Investors	Seed Funding	200,000
31	18/03/2015	GoJavas	Snapdeal	Private Equity	N/A	Minority stake, Strategic
32	19/03/2015	Tripoto	IDG Ventures, Outbox Ventures	Private Equity	2,000,000	Pre-Series A
33	19/03/2015	Graphic India	CA Media LP,  Start Media.	Seed Funding	2,800,000
34	20/03/2015	Harness Handitouch	Armat Group	Private Equity	N/A	Series A
35	20/03/2015	Lets Corp	Wu Chay Chin	Seed Funding	3,000,000
36	20/03/2015	CollateBox	LetsVenture	Seed Funding	180,000
37	20/03/2015	Mahindra First Choice	Valiant Capital	Private Equity	15,000,000	Series B
38	21/03/2015	Round One	HT Media, Arun Duggal	Seed Funding	N/A
39	23/03/2015	RazorPay	Y Combinator	Seed Funding	120,000
40	23/03/2015	Mosambee	RVCF and SIDBI	Private Equity	N/A	Series B
41	24/03/2015	Furlenco	LightBox Ventures	Private Equity	6,000,000	Series A
42	24/03/2015	Cubito	Sol Primero	Seed Funding	160,000
43	25/03/2015	Teabox	JAFCO Asia, Keystone Group, Dragoneer Investment, Accel Partners	Private Equity	6,000,000	Series A
44	25/03/2015	Artoo	Accion Venture Labs, Rianta Capital	Private Equity	500,000	Series A
45	25/03/2015	Fxkart.com	Dr Mushtaq Shah, Dr Faraz Naqvi	Seed Funding	2,000,000
46	25/03/2015	Rozgar Mela	Impact Investment Holding, Upaya Social Ventures	Seed Funding	N/A
47	25/03/2015	OYO Rooms	Greenoaks capital, Sequoia Capital, LightSpeed Ventures	Private Equity	25,000,000	Series A
48	26/03/2015	Roposo.com	Tiger Global Management, Indian Quotient, Binny Bansal	Private Equity	5,000,000	Series A
49	26/03/2015	Teewe	Sequoia Capital, India Quotient	Seed Funding	1,750,000
50	26/03/2015	ePoise	Undisclosed	Seed Funding	N/A
51	27/03/2015	Urjas	Solidarity Venture Capital & others	Seed Funding	100,000
52	27/03/2015	Chargein	Pittie Group	Seed Funding	100,000
53	28/03/2015	Yogurt Labs	Nick Adams, Kiran Bhat, Family Pot Investments LLP	Seed Funding	115,000
54	28/03/2015	LimeRoad.com	Tiger Global, Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners	Private Equity	30,000,000
55	28/03/2015	Team Indus	Nandan Nilekani, Rajiv Mody, Ajai Chowdhary	Private Equity	1,500,000	Pre-Series A
56	30/03/2015	Arohan Financial Services	Tano Capital	Private Equity	10,000,000
57	30/03/2015	BillDesk	TA Associates	Private Equity	75,000,000	Incremental Capital
58	31/03/2015	Triphobo	Mayfield Ventures, Kalaari Capital	Private Equity	3,000,000	Series B (More Here)
59	31/03/2015	Aryaka	Trinity Ventures, InterWest Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Presidio Ventures	Private Equity	16,000,000	Series D
60	31/03/2015	Appsdaily	Zodius Capital, Ru-Net, Kalaari Capital,  Qualcomm Ventures	Private Equity	16,000,000	Series C

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

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