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Opportunity India Desk Mar 22, 2022 - 3 min readBioenergy technology firm GPS Renewables raises Series B funding from Neev Fund II managed by SBICap Ventures. The latest round of funding will be used towards R&D and to support GPS Renewables’ next phase of growth and expansion. With the current round, GPS has cumulatively raised close to $20 Million in the form of equity. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 22, 2022 - 8 min readVAMA, one of India’s fastest-growing virtual platforms that provides easy access to an array of services for one’s religious and spiritual journeys, has raised $750k in a seed funding round. This round was co-led by Huddle and 7Square Ventures and also saw participation from other prolific leaders and Start-up veterans including Kunal Shah, Founder, CRED, Varun Alagh, Co-Founder and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Feb 01, 2021 - 2 min readFood innovation startup Samiyosa is set to raise Rs 5 Crores from a group of angel investors and early-stage funds, to be used over a period of 12-15 months for franchise building, advertising and creating a strong foothold in new geographies. The funding will be used to invest massively on marketing, more on R&D of ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 08, 2021 - 2 min readOYO, which is run by Oravel Stays Pvt Ltd, has secured Rs 54 crore from Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd as part of its series F1 funding round. The development comes at a time when OYO is seeing signs of recovery in the sector from the impact of the pandemic. Through this investment, Hindustan Media Ventures ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 21, 2020 - 1 min readEdtech startup Illumnus Education Technologies has secured seed funding from a clutch of high net-worth individuals and angel investors from Dubai. Akash Deep Singhal, Founder of Illumnus Education, said, “We are very excited about this. We plan to market and expand our services in four countries by the end of this year with organic ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 04, 2020 - 2 min readSARVA, a yoga and wellness startup, has secured funding from US-based VC Fund Mantra Capital. This is the first strategic investment by Mantra Capital. The round has seen a financial contribution from a close strategic partner, the Patni Family. Existing investor Fireside Ventures also participated in the funding round. The fresh capital will be used ...
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Opportunity India Desk May 01, 2020 - 1 min readEdtech startup Pedagogy has secured $400,000 in funding round, led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The Ahmedabad-based company was co-founded by Archin Shah, Abhilash Sonwane, and Ritesh Gandhi in 2015. It is transforming the way students purchase and consume books while preparing for engineering and medical entrance examinations. Pedagogy gives access to students to all the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Apr 28, 2020 - 1 min readVernacular language-based education tech startup GUVI, owned and operated by Guvi Geek Network Private Limited, has secured Rs 6 crore in its pre-series A round of funding from Education Catalyst Fund, an education-focused venture capital fund managed by CBA Capital. SP Balamurugan, CEO at GUVI, “The company aims to use the capital raised in ...
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Opportunity India Desk Apr 22, 2020 - 2 min readEdtech startup Pariksha has secured funds in an extension of its pre-Series A round of funding, from a group of angel investors. The funding round has been led by INSEAD Angels, IIT Kanpur Angels, Nikhil Vora and Swati Mehra from Sixth Sense Ventures, Saahil Bhatia from Temasek Holdings India Pvt Ltd, and Sitanshu Shah ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 31, 2020 - 3 min readAs the world’s investor community readies for a rough year, global investors continue to be very optimistic about the potential of India’s ed-tech industry. Mumbai-based Lido Learning has raised another $3million, within just a year of inception. The latest investors coming on board this round include Rocket Internet Founder Alex Samwer backed Picus Capital ...