Top 7 Criteria Investors Must Consider Before Funding a D2C Brand
India presents a unique and promising opportunity for D2C brands. The country was currently the third-largest growing economy globally, with a…
Shark Tank India Backs Koparo with Rs 70 Lakh Investment Deal, Fuels Eco-Friendly Cleaning Movement
Koparo, the digital-first, sustainable home care brand, has made headlines once again, securing a significant investment from 4P Capital Partners and…
Boom in Startup Investments: 44 pc of Investors Targeting Growth in Tier II & III Cities
A compelling trend in the investment landscape - 44 percent of investors actively supporting startups within Tier II and III cities. This underscores…
[Funding Alert] Blue Tea Bags $7.5 mn at Shark Tank India, Despite Being Reprimanded by Sharks
BlueTea is a company envisioned to bring back ancient Indian Ayurveda-based flower teas to the world by showcasing convenience to consumers. The…
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[Funding Alert] Spice Story Gets Funded By a Shark, Raises Rs 70 lakh for 5 pc Equity
Spice story is a Mumbai-based Indian Chutney brand that offers a wide range of authentic and absolutely local chutneys in modern sauce form. These…
[Funding Alert] Home-Grown Coffee Brand VS Mani & Co Raises Rs 19 Lakh for 1 pc Equity on Shark Tank
With numerous up-and-coming coffee brands taking over the market, it came as no surprise how VS Mani and Co, a Home-Grown Coffee brand from South…
[Funding Alert] Size Inclusive Brand Angrakhaa Raise Rs 40 lakh for 20 pc Equity on Shark Tank India
Angrakhaa, a retail clothing brand founded by Vishakha Bhaskkar and Asana Riamei has been operational since 2018. The brand offers women's apparel in…
How this Mother-Daughter Duo Aims to Empower Indian Artisans with the Help of Sharks
House of Chikankari was founded by the mother-daughter duo Poonam and Aakriti Rawal in 2020 with the aim to create a deeper impact on India's…
Lessons from 15 Years of Consumer Investing
VMG Partners has helped shape many visionary ideas into iconic brands. With their investments and expertise, 46 brands have been able to bring their…
Total Grade A Mall Stock to Reach approx. 122 mn sq ft by 2025
The stock of Grade A shopping malls in the top seven cities of India, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, and Hyderabad is at 90.6…
Reliance Industries' 4th Investment Cycle of $50 bn to Double Earnings in Next 3 Years
Reliance Industries’ fourth investment cycle of an estimated $50 billion spending over the next three years could help the firm double its earnings,…
Why People Are Switching from Renting to Owning Assets as an Investment and Lifestyle choice
Three out of every four Indians now prefer asset owning over renting to secure their future in the post-pandemic world. Also, one in four Indians…
How India's Warehousing Sector Is Gradually Picking Up Pace With Massive Investments
The year 2021 has brought many positives for the warehousing sector, particularly in terms of investments. However, being in its nascent stage, the…
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What is Fueling the Growth of Beauty Sector in India
Despite the rapid growth in the last years, the beauty industry is still in its nascent stage with the per capita consumption for beauty products…
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How Fashion Industry Can See Decarbonization As An Investment Opportunity Rather Than A Cost
With more than 2 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions stemming from the fashion industry and the global average temperatures projected to…
Indian Textile Industry: Investment, Opportunities, Challenges and Suggestions 2021
The Indian textile industry is many centuries old consisting of various sectors from hand-spun and hand-woven to mills sector and is the 2nd largest…
The Onset of the Fourth Wave of Coffee in India
Through its evolution around the world as the preferred drink for all occasions, coffee has gone through multiple ‘waves’.  The 1st Wave describes…
Is This The Right Time To Do Funding In Retail Business?
The Indian retail industry has been proven to be one of the most dynamic and fast-growing industries across the global trade market. It offers 8%…
How to ensure right investment in retail?
Managing return on investment is critical to a healthy business. Many factors go into investment decisions, ranging from what merchandise to stock…
why investors are investing in Indian e-commerce over brick & mortar retail?
Has e-commerce guzzled brick-and-mortar? To answer this, let’s start with a brief history. Amazon India exploded onto the scene in a big way in the…
10 things to know when raising a Series A funding
Series A preferred stock is the first round of stock offered during the seed or early stage round by a portfolio company to the venture capital…
Indian real estate still offers opportunity for good ROI and some PE funds are cashing on it
As different real estate asset classes continue to show differential growth patterns in India, having a clear vision of forthcoming trends becomes…
Effects of Demonetisation on Online Shopping
The term Demonetization has become a household name since the Government pulled the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes out of circulation. This…
From the investors: The current trends of funding
Funding is the key to keeping your startup in the fight. Whether your Series A is floundering or your Series D is flourishing, a little bit of…
$1.42 bn worth of eComm investment in 2016. Top 5 eRetailers who stole the show
Indian eCommerce ecosystem is expanding and is expanding BIG! As per a recent report published by a media house, these eCommerce companies have…
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Online grocery to hit Rs 2.7 mn by 2019; D2C In food Brands grow
The online hyper-local and grocery business is booming and it is appealing to entrepreneurs and investors alike. The most enticing fact about online…
AskMe Group shuts down; 4000 employees left in misery
Homegrown hyperlocal startup AskMe has recently decided to shut its operations due to severe financial crunch the company was facing since the…
Flipkart is in no mood to generate fresh funding
In the recent Indian startup scenario, where every new venture is trying to fetch as much funding as it could, one of India’s e-commerce major,…
Amazon hits Snapdeal and Flipkart with a $3 billion bludgeon
While the eCommerce industry is done with the ‘honeymoon period’ in India, American eRetail giant Amazon is still having a retreat and expects a…
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Amazon injects another massive funding to its India unit
At a time when the Indian origin eCommerce players including Flipkart and Snapdeal are struggling in order to raise new round of funding, US-based…
Flipkart stake further cut down to 20% further by 2 investors
Another tornado hits the domestic eCommerce giant Flipkart as two of its mutual fund investors have further marked down the value of their holdings…
India continues to be one of our highest priority investments: Amazon
E-commerce giant Amazon has initiated its biggest campus project outside the US in Gachibowli near Hydrabad. Amazon recognises India to be one of the…
Paytm secures 300 cr from ICICI Bank
Online payment turned eCommerce portal Paytm has recently taken a loan from ICICI Bank in two branches summing upto 300 cr. This move from the online…
Jaypore to expand India operations with $5mn funding
Jaypore, one of India's premier online platforms for contemporary Indian apparel, jewelry, home accents and more, has raised $5mm in its first round…
Mahindra & Mahindra set to invest big bucks for automotive plants in Maharashtra
Eying an expansion, homegrown utility vehicle major Mahindra & Mahindra over the next seven years eyes to invest Rs 8,000 crore on its automotive…
Investment of 800 Cr in Odisha for hotel & food park segment: Y C Deveshwar
Indian multi-business conglomerate, ITC Limited has planned to invest a whooping 800 cr in Odisha over the next few years to set up a hotel property…
Alibaba Group in talks to acquire stake in Flipkart
Chinese eCommerce giant, Alibaba Group which has a very affirmative eye on Indian eCommerce landscape now aims to further strengthen its foothold in…
Sequoia Capital to invest $920M Fund in Indian Start-ups
With a clear motive of investing in Indian startups as well as South East Asian companies, Silicon-based VC firm, Sequoia Capital has raised a…
Retail majors Amazon & Walmart to invest 2,000 cr in India
Eyeing at the huge market potential of the country, two of the biggest names in the retail biz across the globe, Walmart Stores and Amazon, has…
Q3 net profit fall of 28% for Raymond: closes at Rs 40.11 crore
Raymond, one of India’s largest branded fabric and fashion retailer today reported a decline of 28.46 % and a consolidated net profit at Rs 40.11…
Godrej merges with India Circus: an optimistic beginning
Godrej, one of India’s leading business conglomerates, continues to increase its footprint in the lifestyle vertical by taking majority stake of 51%…
Genesis Indian Investment picks up Rs 318 crore stake in Dabur India
Today, Genesis Indian Investment Company bought stake worth Rs 318 crore in FMCG major Dabur India through an open market transaction. As per bulk…
ShopClues, locks Series E funding to achieve a billion dollar tag
Gurgaon-based managed marketplace, Shopclues.com has recently nabbed an undisclosed amount of funding in its series E round from Singapore-based…
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Flipkart in talks with investors to raise $1.4 billion
Domestic online retailer, Flipkart is planning to raise another $1.4 billion (9,200) funds to maintain its leadership in the online retail landscape…
Paytm acquires consumer behaviour prediction app Shifu
Online payment turned eCommerce portal Paytm has recently acquired a Delhi-based consumer behaviour prediction platform called Shifu. It is an $8…
RBI allows foreign investors to buy upto 49 per cent in V-Mart Retail
The Reserve Bank of India has permitted foreign institutional investors to buy upto 49 percent skate in Indian retail chain store, V-Mart.  As per…
Oyo Rooms to acquire Zo Rooms in an all-stock deal
Finally the startup war between Oyo and Zo Rooms comes to an end with Oyo Rooms making the speculations of acquiring Zo Rooms true. India’s largest…
Tata Sons to acquire another 0.22% stake in Titan
Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata Group is all set to acquire another 0.22 percent stake in Titan Company which is estimated to be priced over…
Kishore Biyani in talks to raise funds for FMCG Business
Founder of the Future Group and one of India’s leading retailers, Kishore Biyani, is planning to raise about Rs 300 crore from family offices for his…
Flipkart buys minority stake in MakemyIndia to bolster logistics
In order to bolster its supply chain through licensed map data and location technology, domestic eCommerce giant Flipkart has recently acquired a…
Flipkart reports a loss of Rs 2,000 crore due to discounting
Investing heavily in discounts and back-end operations to woo customers and stay ahead of its rivals, domestic eCommerce marketplace, Flipkart, has…
Cab aggregating platform TaxiVaxi nabs angel funding
Launched last year in December, the cab aggregating platform TaxiVaxi has recently nabbed an undisclosed amount of funding from an angel investor.…
UrbanClap nabbed $25 million from Bessemer Venture Partners
Mobile marketplace UrbanClap that provides professionals ranging from tutors to beauty experts and electricians to wedding photographers has recently…
Ola secures Series F funding from Baillie Gifford, Didi Kuaidi with others
One of India’s cab aggregators, Ola, has recently completed its Series F funding round and have raised around $500 million from Scottish investment…
Flipkart's largerst investor Tiger Global lifts stake in Amazon
Tiger Global Management, which holds maximum stake in online marketplace Flipkart has lately increased its pie of stake in Amazon.com Inc, which is…
Micromax backs music streaming service, Gaana
Smartphone maker Micromax Informatics Ltd. has made an investment of undisclosed amount in online music streaming service Gaana, operated by Times…
Amazon injects a whooping Rs 1,237 crore in Amazon Seller Services
eCommerce giant Amazon has invested Rs. 1,237 crore in Amazon Seller Services and hence its the biggest infusion of capital into for Amazon's Indian…
Astarc Ventures backs food ordering portal TravelKhana
TravelKhana, a Delhi-based food ordering platform for train passengers, has acquired funding in an investment round led by Mumbai-based seed fund,…
Fabindia Founder, Nandan Nilekani & Others Support Publishing Startup Juggernaut
A mobile first publishing startup, Juggernaut, has raised about R15 Cr ($2.2 Mn) in a round led by William Bissell (founder, Fabindia), Nandan…