Financial Services & Banks
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 08, 2021 - 4 min readHeadquartered in San Francisco and Bengaluru, overseas education company Leap, which runs LeapFinance and LeapScholar, on Wednesday announced to have raised $55 million in Series C funding led by Owl Ventures. The round also saw participation from Harvard Management Company, Inc. along with returning investors Jungle Ventures and Sequoia Capital India. The round ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 08, 2021 - 4 min readGurugram-based CollegeDekho, college admissions, and education services platform, on Wednesday, announced that it has raised $26.5 million in an ongoing (and oversubscribed) Series B funding round led by Winter Capital Partners, ETS Strategic Capital (the private equity investments arm of ETS, creator of the TOEFL and GRE tests), Calega and existing investor Man Capital and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 07, 2021 - 2 min readGermany-based bitsCrunch, an NFT-focused blockchain analytics company, on Monday announced to have raised a Seed round of $750,000 from the Covalent, Double Peak, GenBlock Capital, Ledger Prime, MEXC Global, and Synaps. It is headquartered in Chennai in India as well. The funds will be used for getting the products into production, and for the infrastructure ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 07, 2021 - 3 min readThe global B2B cross-border sourcing and supply chain technology company, Geniemode, on Monday announced to have closed its Seed round of $2.25 million led by Info Edge Ventures. Angel investors including Deepinder Goyal, Kunal Shah, Prashant Malik, Pankaj Gupta, and others also participated in the round. “The hesitation of large and small global buyers to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 07, 2021 - 2 min readBengaluru-based Neokred, an open banking stack that offers curated versions of issuance in the payment ecosystem has extended its Seed round to raise an additional $500,000 in funding. The round was supported by Virenxia Group, Rajesh Jain and Nitin Agarwal. CapNetic Consulting Group was the sole financial advisor for the round. "Indian banking landscape tells ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 07, 2021 - 2 min readTheRollNumber, a platform that verifies, attests, and issues blockchain-based credentials, on Monday announced to have closed an undisclosed amount in pre-Seed funding round, led by India Accelerator (IA), Artha Venture Fund, and Rudraksh ventures.The injected funds will be used for product development and deployment. The Govt. of India is bullish on ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 03, 2021 - 4 min readInvesting platform dezerv. on Thursday announced that it has raised $7 million in a Seed funding round co-led by Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners India, with participation from investors such as Whiteboard Capital and Blume Founders Fund. This round also featured leading tech founders including Kunal Shah (CRED), Ramakant Sharma (LivSpace), Asish Mohapatra & Ruchi ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 03, 2021 - 3 min readBengaluru-based AppsForBharat—a spiritual-tech company focused on building apps to serve the spiritual and devotional needs of Indian users—announced on Thursday that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Elevation Capital with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital India and BEENEXT as well as Matrix Partners India. This round also ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 02, 2021 - 2 min readZo World Limited, a travel startup that is building a decentralized travel marketplace, announced on Wednesday that it had signed an agreement with GEM Global Yield LLC SCS (GEM), a Luxembourg-based private alternative investment group, for a EUR 15 million capital commitment. The brand, a new, independent entity, is a partner of Zostel, a community-led, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 02, 2021 - 2 min readSalud Beverages, an urban lifestyle brand, on Wednesday announced to have raised $ 1.1 million as of March 2021. The VC fund, comprising actors and HNIs includes serial entrepreneur and leading Indian actor Rana Daggubati, and former managing director, Microsoft India, Srinivas Koppolu, among others backed by Prasad Vanga’s Anthill Ventures. The fund was primarily ...