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03 June, 2022

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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11 February, 2022

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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31 January, 2022

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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17 December, 2021

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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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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12 October, 2021

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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05 May, 2021

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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09 April, 2021

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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04 March, 2020

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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03 March, 2020

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 ......