Tag: Yuri Milner

Grofers fruits & veggies under ‘Freshbury’

Grofers, the food and grocery hyperlocal, is tweaking its business model to a partly inventory-led one, CFO Ashneer Grover told. The company has decided to sell fruit, vegetables and staples under a private label — Freshbury — and these will be sourced from Grofers India’s sister concern. Grover …

NestAway raises $30 m in series C funding

NestAway Technologies Pvt Ltd, the Bangalore-based leader in the ‘managed’ home rentals market, has raised $30 million in a Series C financing led by Tiger Global, Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire investor/founding partner of DST Global and IDG Ventures India. Flipkart’s former head of operat…

AskMe Grocery looks to expand operations to 70 cities

Although the food tech sector is grappling with slowing sales and high attrition, hyperlocal AskMe Grocery is looking to scale up. Ankit Jain, founder, AskMe said that the firm proposes to expand operations from 35 cities to 70 cities by March, 2016. “Expanding the business in tier II and tier II…