Nikhil Patwardhan

Economy

31 January, 2022

Delhi beats Bengaluru to be India's new startup capital

Delhi has replaced Bengaluru as India’s startup capital, adding over 5,000 recognized startups between April 2019 and December 2021, ahead ......

Economy

31 January, 2022

India becomes third-largest startup ecosystem in the world, affirms Economic Survey 2022

India has become the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world after the US and China, the Economic Survey released on ......

Finance

31 January, 2022

KKR-backed Avendus to buy Spark Capital's equities market business

Homegrown financial services firm Avendus Capital has executed an agreement to buy Spark Capital’s institutional equities arm in a bid ......

Premium

TMT

31 January, 2022

B2B startups tapping social media, playing rap songs to create funding buzz

Earlier this month, business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform Rocketlane played a rap song to announce their Series A funding. It went viral on social media with music entrepreneur Nikhil Chinappa offering to remix the rap.   Likewise, ......

TMT

28 January, 2022

Ola rebrands quick commerce segment; aims to set up 500 'dark stores'

ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd, parent of ride-hailing company Ola, has rebranded its quick commerce business as Ola Dash and aims to set up ......

Finance

28 January, 2022

Zomato to set up NBFC, invests in two more startups amid plunge in stock

Online food delivery aggregator Zomato Ltd will set up a wholly-owned non-banking finance company (NBFC) and invest in two more ......

TMT

28 January, 2022

Akshay Kumar-backed Social Swag snags $3.5 mn from IMEF, others

Actor Akshay Kumar-backed content platform Social Swag on Friday said it has raised $3.5 million in a pre-Series A funding ......

Consumer

28 January, 2022

Lightspeed-backed Teachmint marks fourth acquisition in 2 months with MyClassCampus

Lightspeed Venture Partners-backed edtech platform Teachmint, operated by Teachmint Technologies Pvt Ltd, has bought MyClassCampus, an educational enterprise resource planning software, which enables campuses with end-to-end digitisation of ......

TMT

27 January, 2022

DealShare turns unicorn with $130 mn funding from Tiger Global, Alpha Wave, others

DealShare, a Jaipur based social commerce startup, owned and operated by Merabo Labs Pvt Ltd, has joined the coveted unicorn club after raising almost $130 million (Rs ......

TMT

27 January, 2022

SuperOps.ai, floated by former Freshworks employees, snags Series A from Addition, others

SuperOps.ai, a unified professional services automation (PSA) and remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, has raised $14 million as a part ......