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Start-ups to take up nearly 30% of gross office leasing in 2022: Study

Bengaluru leads in terms of space leased by such companies, says JLL report

Start-up Odisha growth fund gets Rs 1,000 cr commitment, disbursal in 5 yrs

Flags off Hall of Fame 2.0 with TiE Bhubaneswar

After Ratan Tata, now Niranjan Hiranandani invests in Goodfellows

Founder and CEO of the Hiranandani Group Niranjan Hiranandani has made an investment in Goodfellows, a start-up offering senior citizens companionship

Healthtech start-up BeatO raises $33 mn in Series B from Lightrock

Firm provides affordable diabetes care with a focus on people who don't have access to specialists

Content management platform Contentstack raises $80 mn in Series C funding

Georgian's Lead Investor Emily Walsh will join the Contentstack board along with Contentstack CFO David Overmyer

Mumbai's venture debt marketplace plans early-stage funding for startups

A Mumbai-based venture debt marketplace is in the midst of setting up an Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) in India and raise USD 90 million for funding 100 startups in 10 countries as well as opening a Singapore office. The AIF, a private equity fund in India, will raise money from Indian investors for the Indian companies, Mumbai-based 8vdx founder Ravi Chachra said on the sidelines of Singapore Fintech Festival. We have money from Indian investors and we are setting up an Indian AIF, an equity fund, said Chachra, a serial entrepreneur and veteran financial investor with a specialisation in credit. The Mumbai team of 15 will be expanded to 40 next year while 10 more funding experts will be placed in offices in Singapore, to be opened next year, as well as Delaware and California. The company has already raised USD 10 million, some of which have come from small investors such as people keen on investing as little as US$10,000 in startups, he explained. Chachra, and 8vdx co-founder

Cashback and coupons firm CashKaro raises Rs 130 crore in funding

Company will use funding for expansion, new technology and product development

Shardeum raises $18 mn in seed round from a clutch of 60 investors

WazirX founder Nischal Shetty, also co-founder Shardeum, says crypto world needs to work with regulatory bodies

Start-ups tap venture debt to stay afloat amid funding winter, say experts

The venture debt market is becoming popular within the start-up ecosystem with a lot of new funds coming up and limited partners also showing their interest in financing such investments

Alteria announces first close of third venture debt fund at Rs 1,000 cr

The firm now has an AUM of Rs 3,800 crore across its three debt funds, raised from domestic investors

TMS Ep281: RBI on inflation, startup funding, IT stocks, base effect

Are RBI's hands tied when it comes to inflation? Why are Indian start-ups facing a severe funding winter? Will IT stocks survive global recession fears? What is low base effect? All answers here

Indian start-up funding hits 2-year low in Q3CY22 at $2.7 bn: PwC report

However, investors have already raised a lot of capital which needs to be deployed and this will ultimately find its way to the Indian start-up ecosystem

Why are Indian start-ups facing such a severe funding winter?

Venture funding data indicates that Indian start-ups are in the middle of a harsh funding winter. While the global situation is not good, the slowdown is more pronounced in India. Let us find out why

Startup funding drops by 80% YoY to $3 bn in Q3 of Calendar 2022: Tracxn

Average ticket size also dips across all funding stages, late-stage sees biggest fall of 70%, indicating that investors aren't willing to make large investments until economic conditions improve

India's startup sector sees 80% drop in Q3 funding, slowdown to continue

The funding in Indian startups nosedived a massive 80 per cent (year-on-year) in the third quarter (July-September period) this year, with the late stage funding seeing the biggest fall

Govt to provide collateral-free loans to start-ups under CGSS framework

The credit guarantee cover under the scheme would be both transaction-based (for single eligible borrowers) and umbrella-based (for a group of eligible borrowers)

Start-up LeverageEdu gets RBI approval for financial services unit

Company raised $22 million in funding in March earlier this year at a valuation of $120 million

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

Machine learning developer TrueFoundry raises $2.3 mn in seed funding

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

How a startup in Pakistan folded just a year after raising $85 million

Airlift started by operating vans and small buses used by office workers and students. When that business slowed during the pandemic, the company pivoted to quick commerce