Page 4 - Funding

Healthtech start-up Butterfly Learnings raises $1.5 mn in seed funding

Round saw participation from Insitor Partners, 9Unicorns, Venture Catalysts and a clutch of other investors

Audio content site Kuku FM raises $21.8 mn, targets 10 mn paid subscribers

Audio content platform Kuku FM said it has raised $21.8 million in Series B1 funding round, led by The Fundamentum Partnership, which will be utilised to strengthen content creation ecosystem

Machine learning developer TrueFoundry raises $2.3 mn in seed funding

Company will use financing to expand technology team and for product development

Insurtech platform Zopper raises $75 million; plans global expansion

Insurtech platform Zopper said it has raised $75 million in its Series C funding, led by Creaegis with participation from ICICI Venture and Bessemer Venture Partners

DotPe raises $58 mn in series B, plans entry into financial services

The firm currently serves over 7.5 million brands including McDonald's, 24 Seven and Taco Bell

DotPe raises $58 mn in series B funding; to foray into financial services

Gurugram-based offline-to-online commerce platform DotPe on Monday said it has raised $58 million in its series B funding round led by Temasek

B2B food processing start-up Suite42 raises $4.3 mn in seed funding

Suite42 says its technology helps clients to make fair price discovery, reduce processing cost

WealthTech firm Liquide raises $2.2 mn pre-seed led by M Venture Partners

Funds will be used to build a plug and play stock advisory layer to power existing brokerage accounts such as Zerodha, Upstox and Groww

EarlySalary in talks to raise $110 million in TPG-led funding: Report

EarlySalary, which competes with LoanTap and PaySense, offers personal loans of up to 500,000 rupees (about $6,319) for short tenures

B2B SaaS start-up WebEngage raises $20 mn in Series B funding round

The Series B round also saw participation from family offices of Unmaj Corporation, NB Ventures, Shashwat Nakrani (a co-founder of BharatPe), and Gopal Srinivasan (chairman of TVS Capital) and others

Rural fintech firm Jai Kisan raises $50mn as debt, equity in funding round

Startup says it will use the financing to expand product suite and improve customer experience

Child, maternity products marketplace Nestery raises Rs 6 cr in funding

Start-up will use the funds to expand team, improve technology and generate original content

Children's shopping platform Bundle O Joy raises Rs 3.9 cr in funding

Founded in February 2022, Bundle O Joy helps parents to find products in apparel, footwear, toys, books, and accessories

DU sets up firm to promote innovation, another in pipeline for funding: VC

"We have set up one company to encourage new startups and innovation in the varsity and we are in search for its CEO. The company will work on incubators and promote innovation," VC Yogesh Singh said

FitterFly raises $12 mn in series A funding led by Amazon Smbhav, Fireside

The funds raised will be used to increase Diabefly's reach, their digital therapeutics and clinically-proven programme to prevent, manage and reverse diabetes

First Cheque closes second fund at Rs 38 cr, plans to invest in 50 startups

First Cheque aims to be the earliest institutional capital available for founders and seeks to achieve this by investing at the pre-seed stage

Supply chain start-up Wheelocity raises $12 mn to expand business

Wheelocity will use the fund to build new products, expand its customer base and improve its fruits and vegetables supply chain

Aerem raises $2.5mn in pre-series A funding led by Blume Ventures

Aerem was founded in 2021 by Anand Jain who comes with a strong background in both financial services and solar

SoftBank to bet on smaller ticket size for the second Vision Fund

The two funds together have invested over $11-12 billion in the country. Together with Softbank's direct investment, this goes up to $14 billion

Rajeev Misra may raise $8-10 bn for his new fund, in talks with gulf royals

Sources say it is also possible that Son may invest some money in the fund through Softbank or other vehicles, although this could not be confirmed