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Closed Loop Partners announced an additional $10 million commitment from the NextGen Consortium’s Founding Partners, Starbucks and McDonald’s, to continue the Consortium’s work: identifying, accelerating and scaling commercially viable, circular foodservice packaging solutions, shared a McDonald’s statement. The Coca-Cola Company increased its commitment to now participate as a Sector Lead Partner, paving the way for ...

Walking to a street food vendor, just the way one would walk into a quality restaurant, worrying little about the quality of food is still a farfetched dream in India. Unless in countries like Paris, Italy and New York where street dining is highly regularised and holds a quality of not less than ...

Doyobi, a provider of STEM teaching resources and teacher professional development to schools through its virtual learning environment (VLE), recently announced it has closed a $2.8 million Pre-Series A round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Other investors who participated in the round are Tresmonos Capital, Novus Paradigm Capital, and XA Network; and prominent angels such ...

Mumbai Angels Network, a startup investment platform for early-stage venture investments, announced to have invested $1.2 million out of a total investment of $3.3 million in Bookingjini, a hospitality SaaS platform and a one-stop solution for hotels that offers a complete Hotel Operating System, that has raised funding in its Pre-Series A round. Bookingjini will ...

Furniture and home products marketplace Pepperfry announced the launch of its 100th Studio in Lucknow.  In partnership with Lt. Col. Siddharth Verma, the Franchisee Studio spreads over a sprawling 500 sq. ft. area in Hazratganj area in Lucknow. With this launch, Pepperfry now has studio footprints across 57 cities in India and aims to reach 200 Studios ...

Astral Limited (Astral; erstwhile Astral Poly Technik Ltd.) today announced its foray into the new business vertical of Faucets & Sanitaryware as a part of its growth strategy to leverage the brand Astral and its network of more than 33,000 dealers in pipes and more than 130,000 dealers in the adhesives and sealant vertical across ...