The start-up will utilise the funds to enhance its product and technology, and to scale to other categories including personality development, new languages and job interviews.
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Online grocery start-up Jumbotail raises $8.5 m in funding
Jumbotail, an Indian start-up building an online wholesale marketplace for groceries, has raised $8.5 million in a funding round led by venture firm, Kalaari Capital with the participation of Nexus Venture Partners. The Bengaluru-headquartered company will use the new funds to enhance technology …
Fintech start-up PaySense gets $5.3 m in Series A
Bengaluru: Fintech startup PaySense, which runs a digital credit platform, has raised $5.3 million in its Series-A round, led by Jungle Ventures with Naspers Group and Nexus Venture Partners. The startup had earlier raised $2.3 million from Nexus Venture Partners and angel investors in 2015. PayS…
What India’s tech entrepreneurs can learn from bootstrapped start-ups
Over the years, I have had the good fortune of working as an investment banker with several self-funded (i.e. bootstrapped) technology startups in India. Almost all the entrepreneurs I have worked with have war stories to tell of their early years of building the business, gaining credibility wit…
ZoloStays raises Rs 26 cr funding led by Nexus Venture Partners
Marquee venture capital investor Nexus Venture Partners has led a Rs 26-crore round of funding in Bengaluru-based ZoloStays Property Solutions, which owns and operates managed accommodation platform Zolo. The series-A round also includes a venture debt component of Rs 4.5 crore, extended by ventu…
Online learning portal Unacademy raises Rs 30 cr in funding
Bengaluru: Unacademy, the online learning platform, has raised $4.5 million (approx. Rs 30 crores) in a Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners and existing investor Blume Ventures. Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk and Ananth Narayanan, CEO of Myntra along with Stanford Angels have a…
Postman raises $7 mn in funding from Nexus Venture Partners
Postman, a start-up that provides developers with a toolkit to build apps faster, has raised $7 million in fresh funding from Nexus Venture Partners. Focusing on helping developers build, run, test and share APIs (Application Programming Interface), Postman claims its toolkit is used by over thre…
Sequoia backed Druva raises $51 million in series E funding
Data protection solutions provider, Druva raised $51 million in series E funding from a consortium of investors led by Sequoia India. The round was led by existing investor Sequoia India and joined by new investors – Singapore-based EDBI, as well as Blue Cloud Ventures and Hercules Capital. It al…
Mobile players like SnapBizz, Goodbox welcome new e-Commerce guidelines
The new e-Commerce guidelines have boosted the growth prospect of upcoming mobile e-Commerce players that connect brick-and-mortar merchants directly to customers. Players like Orderr, m1-Order, Goodbox and SnapBizz say that the new e-Commerce guidelines have created a level playing field for you…
Goodbox acquires SmartPocket to make SMEs e-commerce ready
Bangalore-headquartered Goodbox, a conversational m-commerce company enabling SMEs to become e-commerce ready, has now acquired SmartPocket for an undisclosed amount. Significantly, Goodbox had recently announced its Series A funding of $2.5 million from marquee investor Nexus Venture Partners. S…