E-Invoicing Startup SpiderG Raises Seed Round of Funding
Pune-based Gladiris Technologies that owns and operates its free e-invoicing app SpiderG, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a group of investors.
Rahul Kirloskar, chairman at Kirloskar Pneumatic; Fusion Tech Ventures, the investment arm of Praj’s Pramod Chaudhary; Adi Saravanan, president of Allsec Securities; Pravin Dongre, CEO at Glencore Grain India and Mahendra Doshi of LPK Securities participated in this round of funding.
Gladiris Technology was founded in 2013 by Ashwani Rathore, Prakash Nair and Harshal Ingale, currently serves around 350 businesses and plans to scale the count up to 20,000 in a year. SpiderG also plans to take its revenue from INR 1.5 Cr to INR 22 Cr by the end of this year.
Indiabulls to Raise Up to $150M
Indiabulls Alternative Investments Ltd plans to raise up to $150 million for a new fund from non-resident Indian (NRI) investors based in West Asia, Asia-Pacific and Europe. India Opportunities Fund, a real estate-focused, alternative investment fund (AIF), allows NRI investors, along with persons of Indian origin (PIOs) and other foreign investors, to participate in domestic real estate investments. It plans to initially raise Rs.500 crore and raise an additional Rs.500 crore in case of higher-than-expected demand. The fund has a tenure of four years, extendable by a year, as per DealStreetAsia report.
Bessemer Ventures May Invest $12M in Swiggy
US-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners is in advanced talks to invest around $12 million in food-delivery company Swiggy, as per ET report. If the deal goes through, it will value the company at around $200 million. Last month, it was reported that Swiggy has raised an additional $7 million from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, DST Global and Accel Partners, valuing the company at $130 million. In January, the Bangalore-based company had raised $30 million in Series C round of funding from New York-based Harmony Partners and Singapore-based RB investments. The raised funding will help Swiggy compete strongly with restaurant listing company Zomato, which entered the food delivery business last year, as well as the Sequoia Capital-backed Roadrunnr-TinyOwl combine and Rocket Internet portfolio company Foodpanda.
Rubique to Raise Up to $15M
Online loan facilitator Rubique is in the process of raising $10-15 million in the second round of funding and aims to close with about $25 million by the end of 2016. The Mumbai-based company plans to use the amount to strengthen its technology backbone and focus on distribution and promotion to reach out to a larger base of customers, as per ET reported.
It plans to expand to Ahmedabad, Chennai, Jaipur and Chandigarh, after having established its presence in Mum bai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad.
The company, which counts Kalaari Capital, along with YourNest Angel Fund, Globvestor and Dexter Angel Circle as its investors, had received $3 million in its first round of funding last year.
Cyclops Medtech Raises Seed Round
Cyclops Medtech has raised an undisclosed seed round of funding from CP Bothra, Chairman and Managing Director of Medreich Pharma, a generic drug manufacturing major which was recently acquired by Japan’s Meiji Seika. The team had earlier raised a pre-seed round of funding for basic prototype development from a leading surgeon in Benglauru.
The startup was founded by a team of doctors and a serial entrepreneur — DR Srinivas, Ravi Nayar, and Niranjan Subbarao. The startup focuses on building and manufacturing diagnostic solutions for episodic neurological events like vertigo with the use of eye-tracking technology.
With the newly raised funding, the team is now set to build and manufacture the product. The team has already tied up with a manufacturing facility Vinayas, based out of Mysore.
Infibeam to Invest $9M in Payment Gateway Firm CCAvenue
Infibeam has signed an agreement with payment gateway firm CCAvenue to invest up to Rs 60 crore ($8.9 million) in the company. Last month, Infibeam announced to back the company with Rs 45 crore ($6.7 million) through its wholly-owned subsidiary NSI Infinium Global Pvt Ltd. Following that, the company has announced today that it has increased the investment size now as earlier it was an intimation amount.
The company was founded in 2010 by Vishal Mehta, a former Amazon executive, Infibeam offers cloud-based e-commerce platform service in B2C and B2B verticals.
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Pune-based Gladiris Technologies that owns and operates its free e-invoicing app SpiderG, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a group of investors.
Rahul Kirloskar, chairman at Kirloskar Pneumatic; Fusion Tech Ventures, the investment arm of Praj’s Pramod Chaudhary; Adi Saravanan, president of Allsec Securities; Pravin Dongre, CEO at Glencore Grain India and Mahendra Doshi of LPK Securities participated in this round of funding.
Gladiris Technology was founded in 2013 by Ashwani Rathore, Prakash Nair and Harshal Ingale, currently serves around 350 businesses and plans to scale the count up to 20,000 in a year. SpiderG also plans to take its revenue from INR 1.5 Cr to INR 22 Cr by the end of this year.
Indiabulls to Raise Up to $150M
Indiabulls Alternative Investments Ltd plans to raise up to $150 million for a new fund from non-resident Indian (NRI) investors based in West Asia, Asia-Pacific and Europe. India Opportunities Fund, a real estate-focused, alternative investment fund (AIF), allows NRI investors, along with persons of Indian origin (PIOs) and other foreign investors, to participate in domestic real estate investments. It plans to initially raise Rs.500 crore and raise an additional Rs.500 crore in case of higher-than-expected demand. The fund has a tenure of four years, extendable by a year, as per DealStreetAsia report.
Bessemer Ventures May Invest $12M in Swiggy
US-based venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners is in advanced talks to invest around $12 million in food-delivery company Swiggy, as per ET report. If the deal goes through, it will value the company at around $200 million. Last month, it was reported that Swiggy has raised an additional $7 million from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, DST Global and Accel Partners, valuing the company at $130 million. In January, the Bangalore-based company had raised $30 million in Series C round of funding from New York-based Harmony Partners and Singapore-based RB investments. The raised funding will help Swiggy compete strongly with restaurant listing company Zomato, which entered the food delivery business last year, as well as the Sequoia Capital-backed Roadrunnr-TinyOwl combine and Rocket Internet portfolio company Foodpanda.
Rubique to Raise Up to $15M
Online loan facilitator Rubique is in the process of raising $10-15 million in the second round of funding and aims to close with about $25 million by the end of 2016. The Mumbai-based company plans to use the amount to strengthen its technology backbone and focus on distribution and promotion to reach out to a larger base of customers, as per ET reported.
It plans to expand to Ahmedabad, Chennai, Jaipur and Chandigarh, after having established its presence in Mum bai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad.
The company, which counts Kalaari Capital, along with YourNest Angel Fund, Globvestor and Dexter Angel Circle as its investors, had received $3 million in its first round of funding last year.
Cyclops Medtech Raises Seed Round
Cyclops Medtech has raised an undisclosed seed round of funding from CP Bothra, Chairman and Managing Director of Medreich Pharma, a generic drug manufacturing major which was recently acquired by Japan’s Meiji Seika. The team had earlier raised a pre-seed round of funding for basic prototype development from a leading surgeon in Benglauru.
The startup was founded by a team of doctors and a serial entrepreneur — DR Srinivas, Ravi Nayar, and Niranjan Subbarao. The startup focuses on building and manufacturing diagnostic solutions for episodic neurological events like vertigo with the use of eye-tracking technology.
With the newly raised funding, the team is now set to build and manufacture the product. The team has already tied up with a manufacturing facility Vinayas, based out of Mysore.
Infibeam to Invest $9M in Payment Gateway Firm CCAvenue
Infibeam has signed an agreement with payment gateway firm CCAvenue to invest up to Rs 60 crore ($8.9 million) in the company. Last month, Infibeam announced to back the company with Rs 45 crore ($6.7 million) through its wholly-owned subsidiary NSI Infinium Global Pvt Ltd. Following that, the company has announced today that it has increased the investment size now as earlier it was an intimation amount.
The company was founded in 2010 by Vishal Mehta, a former Amazon executive, Infibeam offers cloud-based e-commerce platform service in B2C and B2B verticals.
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