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Digital lending marketplace, Paisabazaar.com, receives funding from parent company

Paisabazaar.com announced that it has raised additional funding of Rs 200 crore in funding from its parent company EtechAces Marketing and Consulting Private Limited. This was a part of the pre-IPO fundraising that EtechAces had carried out last year. The company had raised Rs 500 crore from existing and new investors including True North and […]

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Flipkart’s logistics arm receives funding from Klick2Shop

The Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart’s logistics partner, Ekart, has reportedly received funding of Rs 1632 crore from Klick2Shop,a company registered in Singapore. As per the documents filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, InstaKart Services, which is the entity operating Ekart, received funding totalling Rs 1632 crore in November in three instalments from Klick2Shop Logistics […]

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Swiggy

Naspers may partner with Tencent to invest $200 mn in food delivery startup, Swiggy

The South African Internet Group, Naspers, has emerged as a prime candidate to lead a $150-$200 million investment in one of the top food delivery startups in the country, Swiggy. This news comes after the Japanese conglomerate Softbank and Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart, ended independent funding discussions with Swiggy, as per people familiar with the […]

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Flipkart incorporates new entity to enter insurance and VC funding segments

Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart has reportedly incorporated a new entity, Sabin Advisors, in order to diversify into the insurance sector and venture capital funding segment. The company was incorporated by Flipkart’s co-founders, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, hence, the title, Sabin Advisors. The incorporation papers did not specify any particular business that the new company […]

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SuperMeat

Israeli “clean meat” startup receives $3 million in funding

Israeli bio-tech startup SuperMeat announced that it has raised $3 million in a seed funding round. The startup was founded in Tel Aviv in 2015 and is one of the growing number of lab-made meat startups, which are seeking to capitalize on the sustainable food sector. The company’s “clean meat” as it called is created […]

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