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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins Frank McCourt’s Bid for TikTok
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok's US operations. The former Los Angeles Dodgers owner and his partners submitted a bid for TikTok in early January, as a deadline approached that would require ByteDance to sell the app to a US owner or face a ban.
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Policy Measures Taken To Boost Social Impact Of FinTech In India: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government is taking various measures at the policy level to promote the fintech sector, which attracted over USD 31 billion in investments in the last 10 years, and the abolition of the Angel Tax is al
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PayPal Bets on Chaos Labs, Co-Leads $20 Million Seed Funding for On-Chain Risk Optimiser
PayPal has co-led the funding round with venture capital firm Galaxy in collectively pledging $20 million (roughly Rs. 165 crore) towards Chaos Labs. Six angel investors joined the other 23 organisations that poured capital into Chaos Labs in its seed funding. These firms include Polygon, Coinbase Ventures, and OpenSea, among others.
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Ex-Binance Officials Open $100 Million Fund Pool to Drive Metaverse, Crypto Adoption
Ex-Binance officials Ling Zhang and Wayne Fu have created a fund of $100 million (roughly Rs. 776 crore), in order to drive crypto and metaverse adoption. The name of this fund is the ‘Old Fashion Research (OFR)’, which is backed by venture capitals and angel investors.
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Indian Blockchain E-Sports Firm ‘STAN’ Raises $2.5 Million in Funding from OpenSea, Coinbase Super Angels
Bengaluru city-based blockchain startup called ‘STAN’ has garnered $2.5 million (roughly Rs. 20 crore) in a seed funding round. US’ General Catalyst investment firm led the round and was joined by other venture capital firms including Better Capital and Eximius Ventures. Super angel investors like Aadil Mamujee from OpenSea and Nakul Gupta fr...
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Snapdeal Co-Founder Kunal Bahl Reveals How the E-Commerce Platform Got Its First Angel Investor
Snapdeal co-founder Kunal Bahl said he met his first angel investor during a guest lecture at a US college. But it took him a few years to get the person to invest in his startup and he still continues to be an investor at Snapdeal.
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Magenta EV Solutions Raises Rs. 125 Crore In Series A Round Of Funding
The fresh investment includes Rs. 120 core from entrepreneur Dr Kiran Patel, as well as an additional funding from JITO Angel Network to the tune of Rs. 5 crore.
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YouTube Influencers And Broking Apps Draw In Millions Of Day Traders
In India it's been a wave of YouTube influencers as well as a host of private stock-tipping social media chat groups that have drawn millions of day traders into discount brokers like Zerodha Broking Ltd, Angel Broking Ltd and SoftBank Group-backed Paytm's broker app.
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Ather Energy Secures New Investment Of $51 Million In Latest Round Of Funding
Indian electric scooter start-up Ather Energy has raised an investment of $51 million in its latest round of funding. The new investment was led by Sachin Bansal's $32 million, and his second with the electric mobility company after coming on board as an angel investor with $0.5 million in 2014. In addition to Bansal, Hero MotoCorp has converted it...
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Slack's Chief Product Officer April Underwood to Step Down
Underwood is leaving to spend more time working at #Angels, an investing group she co-founded three months before joining Slack in 201.
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The Startup Ecosystem Is a Buyer's Market for Funders, Explains YourNest's Girish Shivani
YourNest is an early stage venture capital fund that recently announced its second fund, and plans to focus on AI, machine learning, B2B IoT, hardware startups from India, applications for blockchain, digital payments, and digital identity.
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India's Top 7 Early Stage VC Firms
An analysis of India's most active VC firms, their investments and exits since their inception.
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Nine Investment Platforms That Can Get Your Startup Funded
Starting a business? These global and India-focused platforms let entrepreneurs collaborate and raise funds from angel investors, accelerators and VC funds.
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Startup India: Tax Sops for Angel Investment Will Boost Initiative, Says Google India
Google India feels friendly policies, encouragement to the existing startups, and adequate infrastructure would provide an impetus to newcomers.
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What Makes Bengaluru India's Startup Capital
You can't throw a stone in Bengaluru, without hitting somebody who has started - or is about to start - a startup, many people plugged into the city's business and technology beats feel.
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins Frank McCourt’s Bid for TikTok
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok's US operations. The former Los Angeles Dodgers owner and his partners submitted a bid for TikTok in early January, as a deadline approached that would require ByteDance to sell the app to a US owner or face a ban.
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Policy Measures Taken To Boost Social Impact Of FinTech In India: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government is taking various measures at the policy level to promote the fintech sector, which attracted over USD 31 billion in investments in the last 10 years, and the abolition of the Angel Tax is al
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PayPal Bets on Chaos Labs, Co-Leads $20 Million Seed Funding for On-Chain Risk Optimiser
PayPal has co-led the funding round with venture capital firm Galaxy in collectively pledging $20 million (roughly Rs. 165 crore) towards Chaos Labs. Six angel investors joined the other 23 organisations that poured capital into Chaos Labs in its seed funding. These firms include Polygon, Coinbase Ventures, and OpenSea, among others.
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Ex-Binance Officials Open $100 Million Fund Pool to Drive Metaverse, Crypto Adoption
Ex-Binance officials Ling Zhang and Wayne Fu have created a fund of $100 million (roughly Rs. 776 crore), in order to drive crypto and metaverse adoption. The name of this fund is the ‘Old Fashion Research (OFR)’, which is backed by venture capitals and angel investors.
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Indian Blockchain E-Sports Firm ‘STAN’ Raises $2.5 Million in Funding from OpenSea, Coinbase Super Angels
Bengaluru city-based blockchain startup called ‘STAN’ has garnered $2.5 million (roughly Rs. 20 crore) in a seed funding round. US’ General Catalyst investment firm led the round and was joined by other venture capital firms including Better Capital and Eximius Ventures. Super angel investors like Aadil Mamujee from OpenSea and Nakul Gupta fr...
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Snapdeal Co-Founder Kunal Bahl Reveals How the E-Commerce Platform Got Its First Angel Investor
Snapdeal co-founder Kunal Bahl said he met his first angel investor during a guest lecture at a US college. But it took him a few years to get the person to invest in his startup and he still continues to be an investor at Snapdeal.
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Magenta EV Solutions Raises Rs. 125 Crore In Series A Round Of Funding
The fresh investment includes Rs. 120 core from entrepreneur Dr Kiran Patel, as well as an additional funding from JITO Angel Network to the tune of Rs. 5 crore.
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YouTube Influencers And Broking Apps Draw In Millions Of Day Traders
In India it's been a wave of YouTube influencers as well as a host of private stock-tipping social media chat groups that have drawn millions of day traders into discount brokers like Zerodha Broking Ltd, Angel Broking Ltd and SoftBank Group-backed Paytm's broker app.
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Ather Energy Secures New Investment Of $51 Million In Latest Round Of Funding
Indian electric scooter start-up Ather Energy has raised an investment of $51 million in its latest round of funding. The new investment was led by Sachin Bansal's $32 million, and his second with the electric mobility company after coming on board as an angel investor with $0.5 million in 2014. In addition to Bansal, Hero MotoCorp has converted it...
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Slack's Chief Product Officer April Underwood to Step Down
Underwood is leaving to spend more time working at #Angels, an investing group she co-founded three months before joining Slack in 201.
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The Startup Ecosystem Is a Buyer's Market for Funders, Explains YourNest's Girish Shivani
YourNest is an early stage venture capital fund that recently announced its second fund, and plans to focus on AI, machine learning, B2B IoT, hardware startups from India, applications for blockchain, digital payments, and digital identity.
-
India's Top 7 Early Stage VC Firms
An analysis of India's most active VC firms, their investments and exits since their inception.
-
Nine Investment Platforms That Can Get Your Startup Funded
Starting a business? These global and India-focused platforms let entrepreneurs collaborate and raise funds from angel investors, accelerators and VC funds.
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Startup India: Tax Sops for Angel Investment Will Boost Initiative, Says Google India
Google India feels friendly policies, encouragement to the existing startups, and adequate infrastructure would provide an impetus to newcomers.
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What Makes Bengaluru India's Startup Capital
You can't throw a stone in Bengaluru, without hitting somebody who has started - or is about to start - a startup, many people plugged into the city's business and technology beats feel.
