Tag: Anand Chandrasekaran

Fynd secures $500k in follow on Series A funding from Rocketship

Mumbai-based e-Commerce fashion platform Fynd has raised $500,000 in a follow-on Series A funding round from Silicon Valley-based Rocketship. Rocketship is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies using models built through data science. The firm’s founders, Venky Harinarayan an…

Fashion discovery platform SummerLabel raises seed funding

Gurgaon-based fashion and lifestyle discovery platform SummerLabel has raised Rs 1 crore ($150,000) in seed funding from a clutch of high net worth individuals, the company said in a press statement. Aneesh Seth, director at web development firm 23 bytes, and Tushar Mittal, founder of design stud…

GSF makes fresh investments in 5 start-ups

Gurgaon-based startup accelerator Global Super Angels Forum (GSF) has made fresh investments in five startups which constitute its fifth batch for its accelerator programme. The five startups are, bot-assistant player YellowAnt, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven chatbot solution HeyMojo, deep-l…

Fashion e-Commerce portal Fynd raises funding from investors

Fashion e-commerce portal Fynd has clinched an undisclosed amount of funding from Facebook executive Anand Chandrasekaran, Arvind Sports Lifestyle CEO Rajiv Mehta and Livspace Co-Founder Ramakant Sharma. Fynd optimises delivery time for online shoppers by sourcing products from the outlets neares…

Healthcare e-Commerce portal Netmeds acquires Pluss

Healthcare e-Commerce portal Netmeds on November 24 said it has acquired Pluss, a mobile app for medicine deliveries in Delhi and Hyderabad, in an all-stock deal. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Pluss users can upload a photo of their prescription and have medicines delivered ho…

Tonetag raises funds from Mohandas Pai & others

Digital contactless payments solutions firm ToneTag has raised funds from a group of IT industry veterans, including Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services, T K Kurien, Vice Chairman of Wipro, Anand Chandrasekaran, former Snapdeal Chief Product Officer, Deepak Ghaisas, former i…

Ed-tech start-up Makkajai Edu Tech raises $250,000

Ed-tech start-up Makkajai Edu Tech Pvt. Ltd on September 7, said it has raised $250,000 from Ananth Narayanan, Chief Executive of Myntra; Anand Chandrasekaran, former Chief Product Officer of Snapdeal; Mekin Maheshwari, former Chief People Officer of Flipkart; Ravi Garikipati, Head of Engineering…