Construction management app Powerplay raises $7 million in funding led by Accel India
Powerplay, a construction management firm, has secured $7 million in a new fundraising round headed by Accel India and joined by other current investors. This would be the firm’s second investment round in the last 13 months. According to the company’s regulatory filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC), the board of directors of Powerplay […]
Bridger Photonics Raises $55M in Funding
Bridger Photonics, Inc., a Bozeman, MT-based provider of aerial methane detection, localization, and quantification across the natural gas value chain, raised $55m in funding. A Montana-based syndicate, Beaverhead Partners LLC, has invested $55 million in the company to support its growth. The syndicate is composed of Bozeman-based Madison Valley Partners, sustainability and climate action focused […]
Bored Beverages raises over Rs 2.5 Cr in seed funding led by Inflection Point Ventures
Beverage brand Bored Beverages has raised over Rs 2.5 crore, or close to $314,500, in a seed funding round headed by Inflection Point Ventures, with participation from Dot In Network, Bhawana Bhatnagar, founder of WeFounder Circle, and Soumya Kant, founder of Clovia. The creator of Simba Beer, Prabhtej Singh Bhatia, will participate in the development […]
India’s largest free learning platform Studeasy has been launched for 50 million school students in 10 State Boards
ConnectEd Technologies, a Mumbai-based EdTech social company, has created Studeasy, India’s largest learning platform for regional-language State Boards. The platform, which is available as a free website and Android phone app, provides the most comprehensive collection of high-quality instructional movies and examinations for the country’s ten regional-language State Boards. Initially, movies on the Studeasy platform […]
SaaS-led B2B Retail Commerce Platform Soptle raises angel funding led by Soonicorn LLP
Soptle, a retail commerce platform that focuses on software as a service (or SaaS), has raised an undisclosed angel funding round that was headed by Soonicorn LLP. A number of logistics investors, including Vaishnav Shetty (Executive Director and CDO of All-cargo Group), Pirojshaw Sarkari (CEO of Gati Ltd), and Saurabh Agarwal (Ex-Founder Fitso (Acquired by […]
Ooma Acquires OnSIP, For $9.75M in Cash
Ooma, Inc. (NYSE: OOMA), a Sunnyvale, CA-based smart communications platform for businesses and consumers, acquired Junction Networks Inc., which does business as OnSIP, a provider of cloud-based phone and unified communications services for small and mid-sized businesses, for approximately $9.75m in cash, subject to customary working capital adjustments. The seller in the deal, which was […]
Falkon Raises $16M in Funding
Falkon, a Seattle, WA-based sales analytics platform provider, raised $16m in funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $20m, was led by Omers Ventures with participation from Greylock Partners, Trilogy Financial, Flying Fish Partners and Madera Partners. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations, development efforts and its […]
Meesho develops a logistics SaaS platform to expand its network
According to people familiar with the situation, e-commerce business Meesho is developing a logistics-focused enterprise software solution that can be utilized by small and medium-sized industrial participants. While the product is still being developed internally, Meesho’s reliance on significant third-party logistics firms such as Ecom Express, Xpressbees, and Delhivery will be reduced over time. Meesho […]
Cantos Venture Raises $50M for Third Fund
Cantos Venture, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm, raised $50M for their third fund. The vehicle is focused on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in deeply technical climate, TechBio, aerospace, and next-gen computing startups. Led by Ian Rountree, Founder & GP, Cantos Ventures invests in what they call “near frontier” startups, which have the potential […]
Ecommerce Startup Zeew Raises $630K In Seed Funding
Zeew, an Egypt-based SaaS firm in e-commerce, has raised $630,000 in a Seed round from Plug and Play, Poland Prize, and a collection of angel investors, bringing its total funding raised over the past two years to $1 million. At present, Zeew has merchants in 100 different countries who operate in a variety of verticals, […]