Venture Capital
TMT
With VC funding on the ebb, can big tech cos lend a hand to startups?
Startups need appropriate guidance for scaling up and funding to build products and business models.But they often face a dilemma: ......
People
Venture capital firm Orios strengthens top deck, names Anup Jain managing partner
Mumbai-based early-stage venture capital firm Orios Venture Partners has brought on board Anup Jain as its managing partner, a media ......
Finance
High visibility of double-digit returns for venture debt: Alteria's Vinod Murali
In June last year, Vinod Murali and Ajay Hattangdi quit Temasek-backed venture debt firm InnoVen Capital India Pvt to float ......
Finance
Micro VC Rockstud to back startups and listed cos; gets soft commitment for corpus
Abhishek Agarwal’s shrewd stock market bets over the course of a decade earned him enough money to become an active ......
Healthcare
Pfizer adds $600 mn to VC arm; 25% to flow into early-stage neuroscience research
Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it planned to invest $600 million in its venture capital fund, a quarter of which ......
TMT
IIM-Ahmedabad's CIIE backs campus recruitment solution provider Reculta
IIM Ahmedabad’s incubator-cum-investor, Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), has invested an undisclosed amount of seed capital in Noida-based ......
TMT
Sequoia leads Series B round in social commerce platform Meesho
Bangalore- and California-based Meesho, an online marketplace for resellers, has raised $11.5 million (Rs 77 crore) in a Series B ......
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Property consultant JLL floats $100 mn fund for Asia-Pacific realty-tech startups
JLL Spark, a division of global property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle Inc., on Wednesday announced the creation of JLL Spark ......
Healthcare
Accel Partners leads investment in drug discovery firm
Venture capital firm Accel Partners has led an investment round in a US- and India-based drug discovery company focussed on ......
TMT
Cisco, others invest in software startup Avi Networks' Series D round
Avi Networks, which provides software for the delivery of enterprise applications in data centres and the cloud, has raised $60 ......