GoKwik to Establish Footprint in MENA and SEA Regions?
GoKwik, an e-commerce enablement company on a mission to democratize the shopping experience and increase GMV realization for e-commerce businesses,…
[Funding Alert] Social Commerce App Ping Secures Funds for Expansion across all Metropolitan Cities
Social commerce app Ping has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by Elevation Capital. The fresh capital will be utilized for platform innovation…
Thrasio-Style Startup GlobalBees Secures $150 mn; to Buy Stakes in D2C Brands
India’s Thrasio-style investment venture, GlobalBees has raised $150 million in a mix of equity and debt in a Series A led by FirstCry and some of…
Personal Care Brand Earth Rhythm Secures $1.2 mn Seed Round
A Gurugram-based clean beauty personal care brand, Earth Rhythm has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Anicut Angel Fund, the equity arm of…
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Furniture Subscription Firm Furlenco Eyes Expansion in Tier-I and II Cities
As a part of its expansion efforts, Furlenco, India's largest furniture subscription company, has announced its entry into Jaipur, Mysuru, and…
Men's Innerwear Brand XYXX Secures Funds to Strengthen Retail Presence
XYXX has raised Rs 30 crore in funding from DSG Consumer Partners, Synergy Capital Partners, and Sauce.VC. The men's innerwear brand will use the…
Jumbotail Eyes to Scale Operations across India
Jumbotail, one of India’s leading new retail platforms and B2B marketplace for food and grocery products, has raised Rs 35 crore from Alteria Capital…
Nutraceutical Startup Power Gummies Raises $1 mn in Fresh Funding Round
Nutraceutical start-up Power Gummies has raised its second bridge round funding of approximately $1 million at an undisclosed valuation from…
Inox Leisure Raises Approx Rs 300 cr via QIP
Multiplex major Inox Leisure has successfully completed fundraising of approximately Rs 300 crore through Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP).…
Logistics Firm Delhivery Secures $277 mn in New Funding Round
Delhivery has secured $277 million in a funding round led by investment firm Fidelity. The round has also seen participation from Singapore’s…
High Street Essentials to Strengthen D2C Network in Domestic and Global Markets
Delhi-based fashion house, High Street Essentials (HSE), the parent company behind women’s fashion brands, FabAlley and Indya, has raised Rs 25.50…
Merchant Commerce Platform Pine Labs to Strengthen Digital Payments Gateway
Pine Labs has raised $285 million in a new round of funding. The company will utilize the fresh capital to scale its merchant network and make…
"In the next five years, we aspire to have 50 pc of India wearing our specs," says Lenskart
Omnichannel eyewear startup Lenskart has secured a $95 million investment from global investment firm KKR through a secondary stake acquisition.…
Flipkart in Talks to Raise $1 bn from New Investors Ahead of IPO
Flipkart is reportedly in talks with a clutch of new investors to raise at least $1 billion ahead of its planned Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the…
B2B E-Commerce Player Bizongo Closes Series C Funding Round at $51 mn
Bizongo, a business-to-business platform for packaging materials, has closed its Series C round at $51 million, raised as a mix of equity and debt,…
[Funding Alert] 335bazaar Secures Seed Funding; to Open 100 Stores in Six Months
335bazaar, a new model of Indian commerce that combines online and offline shopping experience for a billion Indians, has received seed funding from…
Sirona Hygiene Secures $3 mn Funding; to Enter New Markets
In an endeavor to impact customers’ lives positively, Sirona has been making strides across the country. Sirona Hygiene, makers of innovative…
Lo! Foods Raises $1 mn Funding; Eyes to Strengthen Distribution Network
Lo! Foods, a Bengaluru-based startup that offers low-carb and Keto-friendly packaged products along with cloud kitchens across 4 cities, has raised $…
Used Car Retailing Platform Spinny Raises $65 mn Funds; to Expand to New Markets
Spinny, a full stack used car retailing platform in India, announces the closure of a $65 Mn Series C funding round from new and existing investors.…
Rage Coffee Secures Funds; to Strengthen its Omnichannel Distribution
Rage Coffee, a Delhi-based FMCG coffee company that manufactures, markets, and distributes innovative packaged coffee products, has raised an…
Happy Jars Raises Rs 3 cr Seed Funding; to Expand Distribution to Tier I & II Cities
Happy Jars, a health food brand offering natural peanut butter, has raised a seed round of Rs 3 crore, led by Inflection Point Ventures. The funds…
Apparel Brand Bewakoof Raises Rs 30 cr Funding to Add New Product Categories
Bewakoof, an online fashion retailer, has secured Rs 30 crore from homegrown venture capital fund IvyCap Ventures. The fresh capital will be utilized…
Kalyan Jewellers Secures Rs 351.89 cr Ahead of its IPO
Kalyan Jewellers India has raised Rs 351.89 crore from anchor investors ahead of its Rs 1,175-crore Initial Public Offering (IPO) which opens for a…
Malaysia's First Online Grocer Jocom Raises S$5.6 mn for National & Global Expansion
The company behind Malaysia’s first grocery mobile app Jocom International Holdings SDN. BHD. has successfully listed part of its share capital on…
Nutrition Brand OZiva Raises $12 mn; Funding to Add New Product Categories
OZiva, India's leading clean, plant-based nutrition brand, has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by new investor Eight Roads Ventures, with…
[Funding Alert] Ecom Express Raises Rs 146 cr Investment for Global Expansion
CDC Group, the UK government's development finance institution and impact investor in South Asia and Africa, has closed a $20 million (about Rs 146…
Browntape Raises Investment to Expand its Omnichannel Retail Solutions
Browntape.com, a leading e-commerce aggregator in India, has raised a fresh round of funding, from PE fund Marathon Edge-backed Ginni Systems, to…
Convenience Store Chain AMPM Raises Rs 1.6 cr; Eyes to Expand to 10 Cities by 2021-end
Convenience store chain AMPM has secured Rs 1.6 crore from Agility Venture Partners. The company aims to expand to more cities by end of 2021. At…
[Funding Alert] Retail Tech Platform Arzooo Raises $6 mn Funds for Market Expansion
Arzooo, India’s fastest growing retail-tech startup, has raised $6 million from Trifecta Capital. The startup will leverage funds for market…
[Funding Alert] Consumer Healthcare Brand Onelife Raises Funds to Drive Growth
Onelife Nutriscience, which owns and operates the consumer healthcare brand Onelife, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Wipro Consumer…
[Funding Alert] Tech-Backed Kirana Chain 'Express Stores' Secures Rs 8 cr Seed Funding
Express Stores, a technology-backed branded omnichannel chain of Bharat’s kiranas, has secured a seed funding of Rs 8 crore. This funding round has…
[Funding Alert] OnePlus' Ex-Co-Founder Carl Pei's 'Nothing' Raises $15 mn Funding
Nothing, a new forward-thinking London-based consumer technology company, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by GV (formerly Google…
[Funding Alert] TenderCuts Secures $15 mn; to Expand Current Operations
TenderCuts, one of India’s only truly omnichannel meat and seafood brand, has raised $15 million in a round led by Paragon Partners, a mid-market PE…
SUGAR Cosmetics Secures $21 mn Funding; to Fuel Omnichannel Growth
The year 2021 is off to a strong start for digital-first beauty player SUGAR Cosmetics as it announced a $21 million Series C funding round led by…
Reckitt Benckiser Leads Rs 45 crore Funding Round in Bombay Shaving Company
Reckitt Benckiser has led Rs 45 crore funding round in Visage Lines Personal Care Pvt Ltd, the owner company for the brand Bombay Shaving Company.…
KIKO TV Plans to Disrupt Mobile Commerce Space
KIKO TV, a company that has built a solution for live streaming video commerce for the Indian market, plans to disrupt the mobile commerce space with…
Expanding Social Commerce in Tier 3 and 4 Cities
ShopG, a social commerce platform, announced the closure of its seed round of $1.5 million from Orios Venture Partners & RPSG Ventures, India’s…
Fireside Ventures to Keep its Focus on Digital-First Consumer Brands
Fireside Ventures, a multi-stage venture fund investing across the early growth stages of businesses with a focus on consumer brands, announces the…
[Funding Alert] Rage Coffee Secures Growth Funding to Strengthen its Distribution Network
Rage Coffee, a Delhi-based D2C brand that manufactures, markets, and distributes innovative coffee products, has raised undisclosed growth capital…
[Funding Alert] Health Food Startup True Elements Secures Rs 10 Cr Funding
Health food brand True Elements has secured Rs 10 crore in a funding round from Maharashtra State Social Venture Fund (MSSVF), a fund managed by …
NAO Spirits and Beverages Raises $2M Funding, Aims to Enter New States
Nao Spirits and Beverages, a homegrown spirits company with a portfolio of quality indigenous Gin brands, has raised $2 million as a Series A…
E-Commerce Startup Udaan Secures $280 mn Funding
Udaan, a homegrown business-to-business e-commerce startup, has secured $280 million funding. The startup is aiming to serve more mom-and-pop…
Vanity Wagon Raises $200k as Seed Funding in First Round
Vanity Wagon, one of the finest information-oriented clean beauty marketplaces, has raised a seed funding led by Agility Venture Partners of $200k (…
[Funding Alert] Slurrp Farm Secures $2M Funding, To Strengthen Portfolio
Slurrp Farm has secured $2 million in its Series A funding round from Fireside Ventures, a multi-stage venture fund. The health snack maker landed $…
[Funding Alert] Mattress Maker Wakefit Raises Rs 185 Cr Funding, To Expand To Newer Markets
Wakefit Innovations Pvt Ltd has secured Rs 185 crore in its Series B round of funding led by Verlinvest SA, a Belgian private investment firm. The…
[Funding Alert] WayCool Foods Secures $7.8 Mn In Debt Funding
WayCool Foods, India's largest agri supply chain startup, has raised $7.8 million in debt from Samunnati, RBL Bank, and InnoVen Capital. This…
Convenience Retail Startup The New Shop Secures $500,000 in Seed Funding
Omnichannel retail brand, The New Shop, a Huddle accelerated company, has just received a seed funding of $500,000 as part equity and part venture…
[Funding Alert] Plum? secures? Rs 110? cr funding to scale up distribution network
Pureplay Skin Sciences (India) Pvt Ltd, which sells direct-to-consumer skin and hair care brands Plum and Phy, has secured Rs 110 crore in a Series B…
Personal care brand Arata secures $1 mn to expand operations
Arata, a home-grown personal care brand, has secured $1 million in Pre-Series A from Nikhil Vora, Founder and CEO of Sixth Sense Ventures, and Rohan…
Country Delight secures $25M to expand product portfolio
Country Delight, a direct-to-home food essentials brand, has secured $25 million in a Series C round of funding led by Elevation Capital (formerly…
Kirana King raises 7 cr to expand RaaS program for Kirana retail in India
Jaipur based firm Kirana King, a Unit of Kirana King Retail Network Pvt Limited, raised Rs 7 CR from Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund (RVCF) in a Pre-…
Fresh fish & meat e-commerce brand FreshToHome raises $121 mn
FreshToHome, the world’s largest fully integrated online brand in fresh fish and meat e-commerce, raised $121M in Series C funding led by Investment…
[Funding Alert] Jumbotail raises $11 mn in Series B2 funding
Jumbotail, India’s leading New Retail platform and B2B marketplace for food and grocery products, has closed an $11M Series B2 round of funding led…
[Funding Alert] Sugar Cosmetics secures $2 mn in debt round
SUGAR Cosmetics has raised $2 million in debt round from Stride Ventures, one of India’s leading venture debt funds. For this agreement, Stride…
[Funding Alert] Influencer Marketplace ClanConnect.ai secures 5 cr in seed round
ClanConnect.ai, a self-serve influencer marketing startup for brands, has successfully closed its seed round of Rs. 5 crores. The funding round has…
[Funding Alert] Children clothing brand Cub McPaws secures pre-Series A funding
Children-focussed clothing brand Cub McPaws, operated by Pochemuchka Kids Pvt Ltd, has secured pre-Series A funding from a clutch of investors based…
Sock brand Soxytoes aims to establish presence in global markets
Soxytoes, one of India’s leading sock brands, is planning to establish its footprint into international markets. The expansion plans come after the…
[Funding Alert] MoEngage raises $25 mn in Series C funding round
Having recently achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency, MoEngage, intelligent customer analytics and cross-channel engagement platform…
[Funding alert] Pepperfry raises $40 mn funding from Fevicol-maker Pidilite
Online furniture retailer Pepperfry has raised $40 million in a Series F round led by Pidilite Industries, the maker of popular homegrown adhesive…
[Funding alert] Dietary supplement brand Power Gummies raises funds to expand operations
Aesthetic Nutrition Pvt Ltd, selling chewable dietary supplements under the brand Power Gummies, has secured funding in a pre-Series A round led by…
[Funding alert] Personal care brand Mamaearth raises Rs 130 cr to continue its exponential growth
Mamaearth, one of the fastest-growing FMCG brands to reach a 100 crore run-rate, has raised a round of funding led by Sequoia India with…
Beauty e-tailer Purplle secures $30 mn from Goldman, others
Purplle, the online beauty and personal care platform, has raised $30 million in series-C funding round, led by global investment bank Goldman Sachs…
Social commerce startup WMall secures Rs 64 Cr in Series B funding
WMall, the social commerce startup, has secured about Rs 64 crore in Series B round of funding from Chiratae Venture Partners (formerly IDG), SAIF…
Digital Mall of Asia aims to offer seamless shopping experiences to consumers PAN-India
Digital Mall of Asia (DMA), a first-of-its-kind virtual e-commerce platform designed to offer immersive shopping experiences to consumers, is aiming…
Ayushmann Khurrana backs The Man Company parent
Bollywood actor Ayushmann Khurrana has made an undisclosed amount of investment in Helios Lifestyle, the parent entity of men’s grooming and…
Outer-wear brand Kosha raises seed funding
Kosha, the only homegrown brand that designs clothing layers (thermals, puffer jackets and hardshells) for travel up to -30°C, announces that it has…
India's fastest growing fine jewellery brand Melorra raises $12 mn funding
Melorra, India’s fastest growing fine jewellery brand that’s making gold trendy for everyday wear, has raised $12 million funding from VC Lightbox,…
B2B platform Udaan secures $585 million
Udaan, the Business-to-business (B2B) platform, has secured $585 million from Tencent, Altimeter, Footpath Ventures, Hillhouse, GGV Capital, and Citi…
Home decor platform Spacejoy raises funds to expand global footrpint
Home interior design startup Spacejoy has secured $1 million in seed funding from the United States-based venture capital firm Accel. The Bengaluru-…
Paytm Money secures Rs 40 cr funding from One97 Communications
Paytm Money has received an investment of Rs 40 crore from One97 Communications. A regulatory document filed with the Corporate Affairs Ministry…
Packaged foods brand Lo! Foods raises $500K to scale up its operations
Lo! Foods, a low carb and keto-friendly range of packaged foods brand, has secured $500,000 in seed funding from a clutch of well-known angels from…
B2B e-commerce startup Shopkirana raises $10M to expand to Tier 2 cities
ShopKirana, the Indore-based retail start-up, has raised $10 million in Series B round of funding. This round has seen participation from existing…
With latest $4 mn from Brand Capital, online jewellery startup JewelMaze aims rapid expansion
JewelMaze, an online fast fashion jewellery marketplace, has secured $4 million from Brand Capital, the strategic investment arm of Bennett Coleman…
Online furniture marketplace WoodenStreet looks to raise funds for an omnichannel expansion across India
WoodenStreet, an online furniture marketplace, is aiming to raise $ 10 million in the next 12 months. The company will use the new funds for an…
Customised apparel brand Alma Mater Store raises funds for expansion
Alma Mater Store, a customised apparel brand, has raised $200,000 funding from Harminder Sahni, Founder and Managing Director of Wazir Advisors, an…
With $24.2 mn funding, Grofers adds further momentum to the grocery sector
Grofers, the online grocery delivery startup, has received an investment of around $14.2 million from its Singapore-based entity, Grofers…
Tea retail chain Chai Point raises Rs 60 crore via preference share route
Food and beverage brand Chai Point, owned by Mountain Trails Foods Pvt Ltd, has raised Rs 60 crore by allotting preference shares of 1,22,130. The…
India's 1st online organic cotton menswear firm raises angel funding
Northmist Pvt Ltd, India’s first organic cotton menswear eco-friendly brand, has raised Rs 1 crore in angel funding from a bunch of angel investors.…
Luxury label brand House of Masaba secures $1 mn in its 1st funding round
House of Masaba, a bridge-to-luxury fashion label founded by designer Masaba Gupta, has secured $1 million in the first round of funding led by Binny…
Grocery delivery startup Milkbasket raises Rs 15 crore funding
Milkbasket, the grocery delivery startup, has raised Rs 15 crore from Innoven Capital, a venture debt and lending platform. The latest funding is in…
Unilever Ventures backs celebrity driven beauty and wellness company Scentials
Celebrity-led beauty company Scentials has raised Rs 25 crore in Series A funding led by Unilever Ventures. Scentials Co-Founded by Jinesh Mehta and…
Online grocery marketplace Jumbotail raises fresh funds? in? Series-?B ?round
In order to fuel its expansion plans, Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for food and grocery products, has raised Rs 90 crore in a series B …
Milkbasket raises $10.5 million in latest funding round
Milkbasket, the grocery delivery startup, has raised an additional $10.5 million in its latest round of funding led by Unilever Ventures. The round…
FreshToHome raises Rs 76 crore in Series-A funding round
FreshToHome, an online seller of fresh fish and meat, has raised Rs 76 crore from a group of investors. The Series-A round of funding has been led by…
Grofers raises $200 mn in SoftBank-led funding round
Grofers, an online grocery retailer, has raised more than $200 million in series F funding round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund. The new investor KTB…
Zivame raises Rs 60 crore funding to boost retail, augment technology
Zivame, the online lingerie retailer, has raised Rs 60 crore in its Series C funding round. This bridge round has been led by Zodius Technology Fund…
Amazon India collaborates with Ketto for helping sellers raise funds
Amazon India has collaborated with a crowdfunding platform Ketto for helping its seller base raise funds for their business expansion, product…
Gurugram-based Baxi-Fresh raises Rs 2 crore from existing investors
Hyperlocal delivery platform Baxi-Fresh has raised Rs 2 crore from its existing investors, including Alok Mittal, Founder and CEO of Indifi…
High Street Essentials raises Rs 60 crore from SAIF Partners
Delhi NCR-based High Street Essentials, an Indian online fashion brand for women that runs FabAlley and Indya, has secured Rs 60 crore in a fresh…
Droom raises $20 million from Integrated Asset Management, Digital Garage and existing investors
Online automobile marketplace, Droom Technology Pvt. Ltd, has raised $20 million in a Series C round led by Integrated Asset Management (Asia) Ltd…
Bajaj Corp seeks reappointment of MD Sumit Malhotra
Indian consumer goods company, Bajaj Corp has plans to raise Rs 1000 crore from market by issuing equity shares and securities.   The company has…