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22 April, 2022

Zappfresh revenue rebounds, cuts losses in FY22; eyes fresh fundraise

DSM Fresh Foods Pvt Ltd, which runs online meat brand Zappfresh, recorded a revenue growth in the recently ended financial ......

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11 April, 2022

Bertelsmann doubles corpus for India VC investments

Bertelsmann India Investments, backer of startup unicorns such as Licious and Eruditus, has doubled its allocation for India to $500-600 ......

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17 March, 2022

Deals Digest: Companies raise $875 mn this week, Amagi turns unicorn

Companies raised $875 million in venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funding this week, and media software-as-a-service (SaaS) business ......

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Consumer

02 February, 2022

Ex-ICICI Venture CEO Prashant Purker bets on seafood delivery startup

Prashant Purker, the former CEO at one of India’s oldest homegrown private equity firms ICICI Venture, has invested in a ......

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Consumer

29 December, 2021

D2C space in India thriving; no post-pandemic blues

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) or digitally-native brands in India have matured over the last couple of years, and giving a stiff challenge ......

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Finance

06 December, 2021

Startups have shelled out $440 mn to buy back employee Esops in 2021 till date

Startups are bending backwards to sweeten deals in a bid to hire and retain employees in this competitive market. In ......

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26 November, 2021

Startups  unveil  new Esop structures to woo, retain talent

Indian startups are exploring creative ways to hire—and retain—staff, including expanding their employee stock option plans (Esops), as they battle ......

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Finance

01 November, 2021

Companies raised over $7.5 billion in October, half a dozen unicorns pop up

Private equity and venture capital investors poured over $7.5 billion in Indian companies across technology startups, sports clubs, infrastructure, housing ......

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Finance

08 October, 2021

Weekly Deals Wrap: Total transaction value jumps as M&As rebound and unicorns pop up

Overall deal value during the week rose by almost a fifth helped by the strong bounceback in mergers and acquisitions ......

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Consumer

06 October, 2021

Will wait to turn profitable before floating IPO: Licious cofounder Vivek Gupta

Meat brand Licious, which became India's 29th unicorn this year after raising fresh capital from new investor IIFL, expects to ......