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China's Tencent in talks to join ShareChat's fundraising round
China’s Tencent Holdings is in talks to join the ongoing funding round of ShareChat, two people aware of the development ......
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Deals Digest: Companies raise $1.88 bn this week; 3 startups turn unicorns
Companies raised $1.88 billion in venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funding this week, and three startups Xpressbees, Livspace ......
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Lightspeed eyes more bets on new themes like agritech, healthtech
Lightspeed, known for its bets on Byju’s, Oyo and ShareChat, expects to sharpen its focus on startups in the agritech ......
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Deals Digest: Companies raised $909 mn this week, ShareChat's $266 mn fundraise leads the chart
Companies raised a little over $900 million in venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funding this week, dropping from ......
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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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Sharechat in talks to buy MX TakaTak
Homegrown short video platform Sharechat is in talks to acquire Times Internet-owned MX TakaTak, two people familiar with the development ......
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Sequoia Capital's Surge, others bet on construction site management app
Early stage venture capital firms Accel and India Quotient and Sequoia Capital's accelerator Surge have invested in a construction site ......
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Weekly Deals Wrap: Unicorns come galloping; clouds part, $3 bn rains; Byju's big buy
Five of the nine unicorns this calendar year were born in this first week of the new fiscal as investors ......
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Who are the biggest cash guzzlers in India Startup Inc?
Cash burn is a necessary evil that venture investors have to deal with, but India’s best-funded startups turned more aggressive ......
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Indian startups raking it in from money parked in mutual funds; ‘other income' up 31%
Indian technology startups generated a neat treasury income, or income from investment of surplus cash pumped in by investors, with ......